Security Risk
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Companies in this category produce country reports focused on security threats to overseas assets and personnel, such as crime, kidnapping, and political violence. Many also have lucrative consulting operations -- doing background checks, providing bodyguards, assessing and upgrading security measures at overseas facillities, and so on.
Air Security International
Air Security International, as the name suggests, started by providing security advice to corporate jet crews dispatched to dangerous places. ASI has since expanded to executive training, general travel advice, background checks, country risk reports -- the usual range for...
Control Risks Group
Control Risks is top dog in the world of security risk. Chock full of British ex-Army and ex-intelligence types eager to regale you with tales of their heroic service in the Sultan of Oman's private army, the company's main business...
Eric Morris International Consulting
Easily the slickest website in the political risk business. A bunch of ex-British-military types who will analyze any country upon request. Sort of a mini-Control Risks. http://www.consultemic.com...
Exclusive Analysis
Exclusive Analysis is a new, smallish British outfit focused on providing security risk info to insurance underwriters. EA's claim to fame is the oddly-titled CREAM (Country Risk Evaluation and Assessment Model), an on-line database with forecasts on war, terrorism, and...
IJet
iJet is another one of those firms started by ex-intelligence types who love 24-hour "situation rooms" that look like NASA mission control. iJet's killer app was software that would link into corporate travel systems and allow executive travellers to be...
Kroll Intelligence Services
Kroll Intelligence Services got turfed out from the mother company, Kroll, and then picked up by IJet. Look for KINS's country reports -- all about security threats, like terrorism, kidnapping, riots, war -- to become part of IJet's WorldCue, a...
Olive Security
Ordinarily we wouldn't cover it, because this bunch of ex-British special forces does mostly security work -- military training, close protection, some crisis management and evacuation planning. But there's a bit of a threat assessment line, and moreover, they provide...
