# ISS World
**Entity class:** International lawful-interception and cyber-intelligence conference series
**Organizer:** [[wiki/TeleStrategies|TeleStrategies]]
**Aliases:** Intelligence Support Systems World
**As of:** 2026-09-23
## Definition
**ISS World** is a regional conference and training series for lawful interception, electronic surveillance, cyber intelligence, communications analysis, and investigative technology. Editions serve the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia. Attendance is restricted to government, law-enforcement, military, intelligence, private-investigation, and relevant vendor communities; some training tracks impose narrower government-only controls.
The series is an important commercial-government junction for telecommunications interception, network intelligence, social-media and dark-web investigation, financial-crime analysis, and related tooling. Those topics describe the series' published programs; they do not establish that every attendee or vendor performs every listed function.
## Relationships
- **organizer:** [[wiki/TeleStrategies|TeleStrategies]].
- **technical domains:** lawful interception, [[wiki/SIGINT|SIGINT]], cyber intelligence, and [[wiki/Financial Intelligence|Financial Intelligence]].
- **event ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intelligence and Defense Conferences|Intelligence and Defense Conferences]].
- **collection route:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [ISS World North America — conference brochure](https://www.issworldtraining.com/iss_wash/Brochure.pdf)
- [ISS World Middle East and Africa — 2026 brochure](https://issworldtraining.com/ISS_MEA/Brochure01.pdf)