In this blog, we’ll examine the ecosystem of high net worth protection programs to understand the reasons why they succeed – and hopefully prevent program failure for more families.

When it’s your responsibility to keep people safe on the road, you really want to know what’s coming around the next curve.

There’s a lot of talk about the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is growing rapidly in size and complexity. It’s expanding into more and more types of devices and applications, and it’s getting smarter. It’s disrupting all kinds of industries – for better, for worse and for good. The IoT is not going away, and the pace of change will skyrocket in the coming years.

There is a lot of confusion surrounding liability and legal compliance issues concerning private security services, including the protective services relevant for high net worth families. The problems are complex, and there are plenty of gray areas open to interpretation.

Both feelings and facts influence our sense of security. Sometimes we have a hard time distinguishing between the two because we feel first and think later. If we ever get around to thinking about security, then inexperience and a host of preconceived notions can all combine to cloud our view and lead to poor decisions.

In this blog, we introduce the four foundational elements of protection for high net worth individuals and families: Physical security, technology, people and procedures. 

In this blog, we take a look at the missing link of executive travel: secure ground transportation that’s at as high a level as first or business class flights and five-star hotels.

Executive protection agents would do well to learn from the chameleon’s adaptive strategy. We too must both blend in and stick out. And, we must do it quickly and seamlessly with every new assignment.

Every good corporate executive protection program starts with a good Requests for Proposal (RFP). Or should, at least, because the RFP, or request for proposal, is the most powerful document the corporation has to structure the bidding process and improve the transparency of competing bidders’ advantages and disadvantages.

In addition to the hard skills that are most often discussed, successful executive protection agents possess a number of other characteristics that can be broadly described as soft skills or personality traits.