INGRIS
Identify. Name. Gauge. Research. Inform. Secure.
Influence Security
for Individuals and Organisations
A discipline dedicated to recognising, understanding and guarding against the forces that seek to shape what you think, believe and choose.
Awareness
Recognising Hidden Influence
Expose what is shaping your thoughts and decisions
Influence operates through many channels; media, institutions, social networks, political messaging, and cultural narratives. Often, the most powerful persuasion is the kind you never notice.
Influence Security begins with awareness: learning to see the structures, incentives, and tactics that frame how information reaches you and why. Once visible, they lose much of their power.
Independent Thinking
Protecting Your Autonomy of Mind
Genuine independence is built, not assumed
Influence Campaigns, whether political, commercial, or ideological, are designed to bypass critical reasoning and appeal directly to emotion, identity, and trust. The goal is not to inform, but to direct.
We champion habits that make manipulation harder: slow thinking, source scrutiny, comfort with uncertainty, and the courage to hold provisional views. Cognitive independence is a skill. Like any other skill, it can be developed.
The Discipline
The Landscape of Influence
From propaganda to persuasion architecture
Influence operations are not new. However, their reach, speed, and sophistication have grown significantly. State actors, commercial interest, and ideological movements all deploy coordinated strategies to shape public perception, undermine trust, and steer collective behaviour.
Through research, analaysis, and accessible eduction, we map the tactics in use today, so that individuals, commuinties, and institutions can respond with clarity rather than react with confusion.
“The modern revolution will be to choose your own thoughts before they are chosen for you”
Rupert, Co-Founder of INGRIS
Our Approach
The Pillars of Influence Security
Influence Security is not about retreating from the world. It is about engaging with it on your own terms, with clear eyes and a grounded perspective.
Identify Influence
Learn to recognise the tactics, actors, and structures behind coordinated efforts to shape opinion: political, commercial, or ideological.
Gauge your Exposure
Use our self-assessment tools to understand where you or your organisation may be most vulnerable to influence operations.
Build Security
Develop frameworks for critical evaluation of information, reducing susceptibility to manipulation without retreating from the world.