Which fictional corporation serves as the modern-day Templar front in the Assassin’s Creed series?

Abstergo Industries is the fictional corporation that serves as the modern-day Templar front in Assassin’s Creed.

Abstergo presents itself as a powerful multinational company involved in research, technology, pharmaceuticals, and other industries. Behind that public image, it is controlled by the modern Templar Order and seeks to shape society through surveillance, influence, and control.

The company develops and uses the Animus, a machine that lets people experience genetic memories inherited from their ancestors. In the early games, Abstergo employee Desmond Miles is forced to relive the memories of Altaïr through the Animus.

Abstergo is not simply a real-world corporation mentioned in passing. It is one of the series’ central modern-day antagonists and a recurring link between historical Assassin stories and the contemporary plot.