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 The June 2026 settlement that wound down the wider Iran war has likely closed every theatre except Lebanon. The three overlapping frameworks produced that month, the 3 June Washington ceasefire, the 17 June Iran–US Islamabad Memorandum, and the 26 June trilateral framework signed
Key Judgements The Suwałki Corridor remains NATO’s most strategically vulnerable land corridor, representing the only direct land link between mainland Alliance territory and the Baltic States. Russia’s military presence in Kaliningrad, combined with Belarus’ increasing military integration with Moscow, continues to shape NATO’s deterrence posture
