Morrissey Specialty Risk identifies, mitigates and reduces security risk to protect client assets, their customers, employees and reputation. The MS Risk team delivers risk management solutions to enable client operations in all environment types with confidence.
Our team of highly credentialed analysts is drawn from academia, government and the private sector and they combine to assess and understand current and future risks to inform our clients and their decision making.
The consultants at MS Risk hold outstanding pedigrees from prior service in roles with military, government and law enforcement organisations. But we don’t hire them because of what they used to do; we engage them for what they do now.
MS Risk works non-exclusively as a crisis responder across the specialist insurance sector. Our crisis response team has decades of experience responding to and resolving perils such as kidnap, extortion, hijack, illegal detention and malicious product tamper.
Providing risk assessments, embedded security management, and crisis response assistance to protect natural resource projects and satisfy insurer, financier and compliance obligations.
Retained by leading insurance companies, we provide crisis response and risk advisory for kidnap, extortion, and special risk insurance policies.
Providing anti-piracy consulting, vessel hardening, ISPS compliance, and expert crisis response for hijacking and maritime extortion incidents globally.
Protecting your most valuable assets
People, Operations, Profit and Reputation
We help make security in your organisation relevant, risk-based, efficient, and we maximise its contribution to your core operational activity.
Protecting personnel through specialised duty of care training and rapid response ensuring your global workforce remains safe in hostile or challenging environments.
Securing physical infrastructure and investments via vulnerability assessments and proactive hardening, minimising operational disruptions and safeguarding capital in complex regions.
Upholding corporate integrity by managing crises with absolute discretion ensuring ethical and legal compliance and preventing negative exposure during sensitive security incidents.
Key Judgements Objective To assess the strategic significance of the UK’s decision to permit the release of classified SCALP missile information to Ukraine and whether it indicates a broader transition in Western military support from weapons supply towards technology transfer and joint production. Context Western
Key Judgements Objective This report examines how the meaning of Iraq’s 30 September disarmament deadline has changed between June and September 2026, assesses the pattern of compliance among the armed factions, and evaluates the implications of the coalition withdrawal for state authority and regional security
