Protection in a volatile world
From providing basic journey management advice, to supporting complex restructuring, wholesale, or event security management, Control Risks’ helps companies succeed in today’s complex operating environments.
Operational and Protective Security
Solutions for your threat environment and business context
Operational and Protective Security
Operational Security Management - High Risk Protective Security - Executive Protection
Major Events and Sports Security - Technical Countermeasures
Physical Intrusion Testing - Maritime Security
Operational and protective security solutions from Control Risks are tailored to the threat environment and the business context of your operations. They integrate client culture and local practical constraints and aim to facilitate long-term project goals.
Threat-led, tailor-made security
Whether you require support throughout an entire project life cycle or for a single event, we can deliver a right-sized solution that meets the threats you face.
Security professionals and rigorous methodology:
- Proven security professionals from our extensive global network are integrated into management teams with country and sector experience, balanced between local national and expatriate representation.
- Where possible, our security professionals are locally based and trained to best practice and Control Risks’ exacting standards. Operators in hostile environments maintain personal SIA qualifications or an equivalent, and are extensively vetted.
- Our security command and control structures and methodologies set best practice and have been honed over decades in support of complex projects around the world.
Global support, full spectrum security
Control Risks experts and consultants are supported by our global, multi-disciplinary expertise and are able to call on this unrivalled resource at any time. This gives them full visibility of the local, national and global context of your security operation. Operational staff receive regular information on evolving threats and risks – political, security or cyber – from our analyst network.
Securing you, securing your reputation
Security is often the criterion by which a company’s conduct is judged and reputation forged. This is particularly the case in fragile and troubled countries. Our approach to security incorporates our commitment to human rights, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and other international conventions centring on corporate social responsibility.
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Executive protection after a terror attack
Case study: what happens when a major terror attack has your people demanding immediate evacuation and you face a collapse in operations?
Major event support in Russia
Find out how we can identify, assess and mitigate operational risks around major events and offer comprehensive travel advice and support.
Our thinking
Analysis
The digital transformation of the security function
As part of their drive to introduce technology into security risk management, many corporate security teams are assessing internal and external technology options to help them improve their ability to collect data, process information and generate and disseminate intelligence to support faster and more accurate decision-making.
Our Thinking
Africa slowly returns to business as usual
In this article we explore how government responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are evolving in sub-Saharan Africa, and what this means for business.
Response
Preparing for natural disasters in the time of COVID-19
As the East Coast reels from the damage from Tropical Storm Isaias – while still managing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic – the multifaceted challenges faced by organizations this year have been brought to the forefront.
Analysis
Football for sale – can investors save clubs from insolvency?
As play resumes without crowds many football clubs will find their survival is at stake. But all is not lost. Football clubs remain attractive investments to an array of potential investors. We take a look at who they might be.
Report
CORE political violence and violent organised crime report Q2 2020
We are pleased to release our second quarter report on political violence and violent organised crime incidents around the world. This report draws upon and highlights the extensive incident mapping data and analysis that is available within CORE, the essential risk monitoring toolkit from Control Risks.