Risk understood and managed
Practical Security Solutions
Our team is client-led, not competitor-led. We have strong pedigrees in intelligence, military service – including special forces – and policing, but more importantly it is what we do now that matters to our clients to enable them to operate safely, profitably and with high confidence.
Proven Methodologies & Controls
We employ a plan-do-review approach to macro levels of enterprise risk management systems. Work is always risk driven to ensure mitigating control characteristics and limitations are always clear and synergised for best outcomes. Conceptually the Boyd Cycle and similar manoeuvrist teaching concepts underpin our work.
Global Operating Environments
Many of our consultants have been Chief Security Officers of multinationals in varying business sectors and so understand operational risk dynamics. This includes frontier and expeditionary commercial activities. We go where our customers need us. Our team is spread around the globe.
Services
- A dedicated analyst team supporting our consultants in the
field and our clients. - All analysts hold academic credentials in
intelligence, national security or counter-terrorism studies. - Our analysts are also linguists.
The analyst team at MS Risk Limited supports the information and intelligence requirements for our casework and client assignments around the globe. Our team generate periodicals, alerts and bulletins for differing customer demands on daily, weekly, and monthly timetables. For example, they populate the D-Risk database tracking kidnapping, terrorist attacks, violent crime and civil disorder for natural resources clients across parts of Africa, whilst giving analysis of threats at sea for customers in the maritime space worldwide.
Our analysts offer advice for country travel risks and alert to perils as they emerge in all places of interest and need. The team are used to trend threats and risks for clients to remain sure-footed in their posture and activities. Analysis can be strategic, operational or tactically focused as the situation dictates. Due diligence, specialist research, tracing and corporate investigations centre in this team also.
Services
- Experienced consultants positioned around the world.
- Working across a spectrum of stable and permissive commercial activity through to high risk and conflict zone assignments in uncertain jurisdictions.
- Strong pedigrees in prior government service but married to credible commercial expertise earned in the private sector.
Our consultants are carefully selected for their capabilities. We do not recruit trainees. All are inducted to our MSR approach and follow our doctrine. The team operates in mission-focused working groups to ensure client project requirements are met with the right mix of expertise and knowledge to support the assignment and deliver the necessary outcome. This work can range from operational mentoring, liaison & training teams to professionalise host nation security forces for a natural resources project through to advising a media client on corporate security strategy. We can embed consultants into a client’s risk management apparatus to evolve and enhance loss prevention, ethical operations or training standards. We can act as a surge capacity for security functions working at high tempo with little flexibility or when a special project is underway.
We also serve as an outsourced security function solution to small and medium sized enterprises. In this scheme we agree on time and budget limits to give responsible security guidance and sensible management that can be triggered for major events. This is useful for companies lacking a full time security manager or intrinsic capabilities. We act as a master vendor to ensure that all related security-risk deliverables are properly fit for purpose and scored using a key performance indicator and health check self-assessment tools. All consulting and project management assignments enjoy a reach back to our extensive experience pool, held through decades of commercial operations for all manner of client sectors around the world. This corporate store of knowledge is accessible to our team to bolster their delivery.
Services
- 24/7 multilingual hotline in the United Kingdom to flag a crisis, raise the alarm and seek advice.
- Responders on standby to deploy. This service can be directly engaged or activated through specialty risk insurance products.
- Prevention services mitigate the likelihood of an incident. We help you avoid a crisis.
MS Risk Limited is a crisis response provider to the Lloyd’s of London specialty risk market and is on-risk and operating worldwide at all times. We enjoy an excellent reputation with the insurers and their policyholders after three decades of case experience. References are always available. We act for cases of kidnap, extortion, hijack, illegal detention and malicious product tamper. We perform crisis evacuations and assist organisations facing dynamic threats.
These could include how to operate with the threat of ambush or attack in a remote conflict zone, or how to counter improvised explosive device threats, or ways of working in a country where the rule of law is different or where a military junta is in power. At all times our mission is the safety of people and legal, ethical and operationally competent business enabling activity that is ultimately profitable and safe. Contact us for assistance or a no obligation consultation.
Protect assets, staff and reputation across the world. MS Risk identifies, mitigates and reduces security risk to protect client assets, employees and reputation.
Insurance
We began as a crisis responder to a special risks insurance company. Today we act across numerous insurance markets delivering prevention and crisis response services to insurers and their clients in all jurisdictions. We respond to acts of kidnap, hijack, extortion, illegal detention and malicious product tamper. In addition we perform in extremis evacuations. Unlike many of our peers, we are non-exclusive meaning that brokers, underwriters and managed general agents can access our services to link to their unique insurance product offerings. This approach means we are not constrained and are always busy, and so current on shifting threats across the globe and the evolving tactics, techniques and procedures used by adversaries.
Natural Resources
We work with natural resources clients in mining, renewable energies and oil & gas. This work has occurred around the world with a strong focus across Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Our risk solutions support all stages of a project from initial prospecting, exploration to construction, production and resale or disposal. All is underpinned with robust crisis response capabilities. Risk assessments, security force training, compliance and operational planning informs operators, their contractors, financiers, insurers and other stakeholders.
Engineering & Logistics
Working as expert advisers to architects we have supported museums and art galleries on three continents with risk driven graduated security plans and controls. Construction security plans, often in remote localities with weak or uncertain law enforcement, are a feature with expertise in retail, natural resources, rail and infrastructure. Securing the supply chain can be critical and our teams have enabled reliable outcomes in trans-national land, marine and air distribution networks.
Travel & Tourism
MS Risk acts for over 1,300 tour operators with dedicated global response services to crisis events including natural disaster, terrorism, conflict, crime, and accidents. These services are deployable for customers on land and at sea in all environments. Hotel chains also utilise our services from design stages through to special events management. We ensure crime prevention through environmental design principles backstop our work. Individual travellers engage us directly or via travel risk programmes to seek our response when things go wrong, whether on business, a personal holiday or school expedition.
Maritime & Aviation
MS Risk has responded to and resolved acts of marine piracy for merchant shipping owners and fleet manager operators. Our analysts deliver a weekly marine security global review which informs companies, ship owners, admiralty lawyers, underwriters, industry players, flag states and government agencies. Our consultants assist owners, masters and CSOs with specialty planning for preparation of voyages. We have acted for civil aviation with new station setup, charter operations in remote countries and with crisis response assistance.
Government & NGO
MSR works with a range of non-governmental organisations. This has included long term election monitoring in developing countries, the promotion and advancement to court and judicial programmes, support to missionaries, help to humanitarian relief groups and assistance to charities. These services can be delivered pre-incident as well as for reactive purposes. We also work for government agencies providing specialist services including deep insight knowledge on threat actors. We have provided discreet training and mentoring to government, law enforcement and military formations in a number of countries.
Financial Services
We deliver research and analysis to the financial services sector including banks, boutique and institutional investment groups. Our intelligence informs strategic decision making and our investigations team conducts asset and people tracing to support litigation, restructuring and insolvency casework. Our deep expertise in conflict and terrorism charged environments enables client commitments in these zones to be proportionately protected with certainty on outcomes. This enhancement delivers confidence and profitability in unclear times.
Professional Services
MSR has a long history assisting the legal profession. We have been expert witnesses in international tribunals, delivered litigation support, due diligence research and counter- intelligence services to safeguard clients in high stakes commercial disputes. These services crossover to accountancy, corporate finance and restructuring professionals.