Case Study

The Imperative for a Coordinated Defense

IMPACT AND RESULTS

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Mapped Influence Tactics
Improved understanding of AI-enabled influence threats by mapping how tactics are created, scaled, and deployed.

60K+

Engagement Signals Analyzed
Observed across coordinated influence activity to surface personas, narrative convergence, and amplification patterns.

350+

Organic Narrative Adoptions
Real users independently echoed campaign talking points, validating downstream influence and coordination effects.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Imperative for a Coordinated Defense

NATO StratCom COE Enkrypt AI partnered together to examine how emerging AI technologies can be combined into coordinated, multi-persona influence systems capable of shaping public sentiment and disrupting information stability. Through this partnership, the teams jointly analyzed how adversaries can assemble commercial and open-source models into scalable misinformation ecosystems with minimal friction.

The collaboration mapped the full lifecycle of an AI-enabled influence operation, from target discovery and persona development to narrative generation and cross-platform amplification. By structuring this research as a shared technical and strategic effort, NATO StratCom COE  and Enkrypt AI transformed a theoretical risk into a detailed operational framework. The outcome is a clearer and more actionable understanding of how these systems function, how they can be detected, and which defensive strategies are most effective across missions and member states.

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TESTIMONIAL

Enkrypt AI translated a fast-moving, theoretical threat into an operational model we can use to better design defense strategies against automated influence threats. Their work gave us a practical, technically informed framework for identifying AI-enabled influence campaigns and reinforcing our collective information resilience.

Joshua Chia
Senior Expert
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NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

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