Security | Risk | Resilience | Recovery
Operating where security, sovereignty and capital intersect.
How we engage
Engagements are structured around urgency, complexity and the level of ongoing support required.
-
Bespoke, high-trust engagements addressing complex and sensitive matters.
-
Proactive measures to prevent, detect, disrupt and deter hostile digital activity before material impact.
-
Ongoing monitoring and strategic support to maintain visibility, resilience and control.
-
Independent analysis at the intersection of technology, geopolitics and security, informing high-stakes decisions.
-
Discreet support in atypical or time-sensitive matters where conventional advisory models are insufficient.
Advisory Services
Structured support for complex investigations, executive exposure, strategic risk and organisational resilience.
Retained Services
Retainers are modular. They scale from strategic advisory to operational monitoring and crisis readiness.
-
Engaged by: private equity sponsors, portfolio boards, founders, family offices and principals requiring independent oversight or embedded security leadership.
Includes:
Board Protective Security Adviser
Fractional / virtual security leadership (vCISO, vCompliance, vSecurity Function)
Governance and accountability frameworks
Executive risk translation and reporting
Policy and control architecture oversight
Structured board briefings
Where relevant, advisory integrates geopolitical and sovereign intelligence via SECURED Research.
-
Engaged by: investors, portfolio companies, technology and data-intensive organisations, executive teams and principals with material digital exposure.
Includes (for both companies and individuals):
Ongoing monitoring of digital footprints
Impersonation monitoring
Executive and family digital exposure take downs
Third-party and supply chain exposure mapping
Structured security maturity assurance and testing
Where required, we can provide round-the-clock monitoring and detection capability.
-
Engaged by: equity and venture sponsors, investment committees and boards managing acquisition, integration or exit.
Includes:
Pre-acquisition security due diligence
Portfolio-wide benchmarking
Regulatory and sovereign risk alignment
Post-acquisition integration assessment
Exit readiness review
Cross-border regulatory exposure analysis
Sovereign and geopolitical context is supported through SECURED Research where appropriate.
-
Engaged by: Boards, investors, legal teams and principals requiring clarity and speed during breach, dispute or targeted activity.
Includes:
Incident and crisis response
Recovery & salvage operations
Incident & recovery command
Crisis communications
Digital forensic investigation
Executive targeting and impersonation response
Disinformation and deepfake assessment
Hostile dispute and activist preparedness
Coordination with legal and communications advisers
Retainers are structured around defined mobilisation commitments, and include increasing readiness pre-incident, and recovery post-incident.
-
Engaged by: investment committees, boards and internationally exposed principals navigating geopolitical or regulatory risk.
Includes:
Adversarial infrastructure monitoring
Geopolitical risk briefings
Sovereign exposure monitoring
Sanctions and regulatory tracking
Cross-border investment risk analysis
Executive travel risk assessment
Personal security services
Geopolitical considerations are delivered through SECURED Research.
Active Cyber Defence & Deterrence (ACD+)
Structured operational measures to prevent, detect, disrupt and deter hostile digital activity.
Active defence is not passive monitoring. It is deliberate intervention.
1 - Prevent
Reducing exposure before adversaries can exploit it.
Exposure mapping and attack surface reduction
Executive and organisational digital footprint control
Domain threat management
Infrastructure hygiene and hardening
2 - Detect
Identifying hostile activity and planning indicators early.
Impersonation monitoring
Infrastructure mapping
Credential and data exposure tracking
Adversarial reconnaissance detection
3 - Disrupt
Intervening to degrade hostile capability.
Coordinated domain and exposure takedowns
Adversarial infrastructure analysis
Abuse reporting and mitigation
Legal intervention
Technical intervention to constrain misuse
4 - Deter
Shaping adversarial behaviour through resilience and strategic signalling.
Controlled deception environments
Degrading, delaying and frustrating hostile action
Behavioural observation and signal amplification
Structured resilience messaging
-
Exposure & attack surface
Domain threat monitoring
Impersonation monitoring
-
Managed detection & response
Credential/data exposure
Reconnaissance detection
Takedown services
-
Reconnaissance simulation
Automated attack & breach simulation
Adversarial infrastructure monitoring
-
Honeypots
Decoys
Reconnaissance traps
-
Formal Board reporting
KPI scorecards
Regulatory mapping and assessment

