RISK MANAGEMENT

Business Continuity: STS supports our clients through the entire business continuity management process from initial scoping to business impact analysis, risk assessment, the development of strategies, documentation, implementation, awareness & training and exercising of management teams.

Crisis Preparedness and Response: STS helps develop strategies for diverse crises such as kidnap & ransom demands, political detentions, instability, extortion and terrorism, to enable clients to effectively deal with the 'unexpected'.

Due Diligence: STS conducts in-depth background checks to support the senior executive recruitment process and during mergers, acquisitions and takeovers to verify the reliability and veracity of potential business partners or investors.

ANALYSIS

Strategic Risk & Security Audits: STS advises on the development and implementation of corporate security strategies, providing clients with an understanding of how their security risks are assessed and managed.

Threat Assessments: STS threat assessments may be undertaken on specific businesses, sites, facilities, assets or individuals. Always conducted using experts in the particular field, our assessments help clients to understand risks and vulnerabilities and provide 'real-world' advice on how to mitigate them.

Physical Risk Surveys: STS are experts in helping clients to ensure that they have effective procedures, processes and resources to deal with the constantly changing threat environment, wherever in the world they may operate..

Penetration Testing: STS has vast expertise of penetration testing in both the Physical and Logical environments and our comprehensive reports provide guidance and recommendations on appropriate measures to eliminate or mitigate identified vulnerabilities.

Consultancy

STS consultants provide clients with strategic advisory services to help manage and mitigate risk.  Our approach is to work with senior decision-makers to enable our clients to understand critical risks, identify priorities and make informed choices about where to invest limited resources to manage those risks.  In particular; we advise organisations on how to reduce the risks to their most valuables assets; people, reputation, information and property. 

Contingency planning

STS supports both government and private sector clients in the development of contingency strategies.  Our perspective is strategic and covers all aspects from preclusion measures to readiness, mitigation, response and recovery.  

Litigation support

Working closely with clients legal advisors is second nature to STS - no more so than when providing litigation support.  STS has a wealth of expertise gained from working on complex, multi-jurisdictional cases; our operatives are fully conversant with the concept of privilege, the requirements of evidential reports and the importance of having due regards to the law, as applicable to any particular theatre of operation.  

Information Security

The security of sensitive, confidential and proprietary information is of vital importance to all organisations.  Unauthorised disclosure whether by accident or design can have serious commercial consequences such as loss of market advantage, adverse publicity or regulatory censure.  STS works with clients to identify risks and vulnerabilities and advises on procedures and systems to minimise and mitigate those risks.  

Due Diligence

Effective due diligence is fundamental to good business; organisations have a responsibility to verify the background of potential business partners, associates and clients - and yet in many regions and markets dependable information may simply not be readily available.  STS is highly experienced in meeting our clients needs for specific intelligence to support due diligence activities.  Our reports are always crafted to exactly match each clients needs, budget and expectations.

Investigation

Business Intelligence: STS provides custom Business Intelligence to inform strategic and operational decisions and help our clients understand the operational environment, wherever in the world they may operate.

Surveillance: STS has teams of highly trained and experienced operatives and can undertake surveillance tasks in both urban and rural environments.

Forensic Sciences: Using the services of trusted partners, with relationships dating back over twenty years, STS is able to offer a full range of forensic services.

Investigations: STS has unequalled experience of conducting discreet and effective investigations, with particular expertise in the field of fraud, corruption, malpractice, brand and reputation protection, counterfeiting and 'grey' trading.

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM): Through trusted partners STS can arrange TSCM surveys of client facilities using highly developed procedures and state-of-the-art detection equipment. STS is also able to advise on the purchase and use of TSCM equipment and the training of in-house teams.