As planning is critical, our pre-trip risk assessments ensure your team receives the tools to identify, analyse and manage the full spectrum of risks while away.

Our team research and provide visual analysis on what risks there are to the traveller. These can range from terrorism and corruption, to medical facilities and disease in the specific locations of travel. We also risk assess the modes of transportation and routes to be taken, along with accommodation. This provides a granular intelligence picture of the security environment on the ground, and prescribes actionable, tailored precautionary measures.

In addition, during the trip, our threat intelligence team can provide real-time alerting to the traveller on the ground and/or teams back home. This aims to make them aware of notable developments happening in and around that location, from protest action that may cause travel disruptions to an attack that jeopardises their physical safety.

We have been able to deploy our intelligence consultants with an intimate knowledge of these potential adversaries and their tactics, techniques, and procedures – as well as specialists in the security industry in the Middle East, with cumulative experience of over 25 years in the region.

We assess the threat intent and capability of each actor before identifying risks and flashpoints between actors. This in turn forms the basis of suggested solutions and mitigations. These projects can be delivered remotely, utilising the latest technologies to get us a huge amount of useful, granular information. This includes the use of recent and detailed satellite imagery, social media analytics, and human sources. While we can also arrange for site visits to get a more comprehensive intelligence picture.

As part of our intelligence offering, we monitor geopolitical events. For the creation of a crisis and continuity plan servicing a large multinational in Southeast Asia, our threat intelligence team mapped out potential events that would likely lead to its eventual activation.

We then reviewed and quantified the likely escalation of incidents relating to a range of potentially catastrophic scenarios in the region. This included various conflict and civil war risks, instability, natural disasters, and the emergence of a pandemic.

With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 strain of coronavirus, this process proved extremely valuable. From the end of December 2019, crisis management teams were able to fully prepare for the arrival of this strain to other parts of the region.