Stopping Abuse in the Digital Age With The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative

At HYAS, we take pride in our effort to try to make a positive impact on the world whenever possible. Cybersecurity, of course, is a business, but stopping bad actors helps protect not only people’s livelihoods but also the critical services that we all depend on. It also prevents the profits from these activities from being funneled back into other criminal ventures. That said, we are always inspired by organizations that dedicate themselves to stamping out injustice in the world. Human trafficking is one of the most horrendous yet tragically overlooked crimes of the modern age. Thankfully, there are charitable organizations like the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) that are fighting to put an end to modern slavery by donating time and resources to help investigate cases and work with police to shut down this shadow industry. While boots-on-the-ground arrests by local law enforcement is the ultimate goal, in the digital age, many frontline investigators do their