Risk Assessment & Security Solutions
- Site Assessment
- Security Process Improvement
- Ongoing Security Management
- Managed Travel
PSA: Your Over-the-Horizon Radar
Every initiative has two types of risk: the immediate, and the unimagined. As local experts in the Philippines, we can help you quantify the immediate, and articulate what is over-the-horizon, to better help you plan for it.
Our unique perspective is informed by decades of hard-earned expertise in field work and strategic advisory in the Philippines, and around the world. We actively maintain an extensive network across the Philippines and South East Asia.
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment serves as an essential tool to empower new market entrants and investors, ensure best practices of ongoing operations and facilities, and compare and contrast alternative investments and locations to minimize risks while maximizing opportunities and returns.
Our analysis includes the safety and security risks of a particular geography and threat groups, and is informed by broader local risk categories including political, regulatory, and commercial concerns.
Risk Management
Modern leaders must demonstrate a proactive, forward-looking approach to risk management, informed by clear, unbiased assessment and analysis. We empower such leaders with timely, comprehensive, evidence-based and locally-grounded decision-making tools.
Through an iterative, capacity-building approach to Risk Management, we help you develop the mindset and necessary mitigation approaches for your unique risk profile.
Our experts identify and quantify your organisation's risk matrix, then we work with you to plug the gaps. Whether your needs are on-premise security feature upgrades, such as CCTV placement and intrusion weakness identification, or if your internal security investigations or other processes need an overhaul, we are here to help.
Managed Travel
Our Business Intelligence unit can produce a travel plan for your in-country executives, informed by the latest crime, insurgency and political data.
We can also help you assemble a thorough executive protection solution. Through our extensive trusted security networks, we can refer experienced professionals with the expertise to handle your unique protection and travel requirements.
Training
Local Expertise, Global Know-How
Effective relationships with government agencies and strong community relations programming and are keys to long-term success in the Philippines. Knowing the right people to contact, and understanding local cultural norms is essential to smooth operations. Our broad spectrum expertise and networks have been developed through more than 30 years of security and risk management experience in both rural and urban areas.
Our Capabilities
- Business Impact Analysis
- Political and Security Risk Assessments
- Project Threat Assessments
- Community Relations Programming
- Liason with Government Agencies
- Business Continuity Planning
- Security Management
- Contingency Planning – Prevention and Mitigation
- Executive and VIP Protection
- Custom Training Solutions
site Risk assessment for a Rural renewable energy project
A private equity firm needed to compare the risk and security profiles of several promising sites for a wind energy generation project. Our analysis for them covered a broad spectrum of risk categories, including natural disasters, historical and current insurgency threats, law enforcement capability and availability of medical facilities in each area. Our client was able to successfully plan their facilities construction based on our detailed recommendations for risk mitigation.
Recent topics in Safety and Security
Authorities in the island province of Tawi-Tawi arrested five Chinese nationals reportedly trying to leave the Philippines for Sabah, Malaysia, to evade prosecution for offshore gaming-related crimes.PSA notes that Tawi-Tawi and the greater Zamboanga Peninsula area has historically been used as a “backdoor” route out of the country, used by fugitives, smugglers, and traffickers alike. …
On April 06, news site Bilyonaryo reported the abduction of a Filipino-Chinse businessman in Pasay City who allegedly remains in captivity as of this writing. According to the Bilyonaryo article, the victim was allegedly taken while they were dining at a restaurant. To date, there are limited open-source articles reporting on the details of the incident. …
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has recorded a total of 3,251 cybercrime complaints in the first quarter of 2025, indicating a 72 percent increase compared to the previous quarter (1,891) in 2024. The CICC has since attributed the recorded increase in complaints to the growing public awareness of cybercrime and the willingness to …
The China Coast Guard (CCG) reinstalled floating barriers around Scarborough Shoal on Monday, March 24, to prevent Filipino fisherfolk from entering the area, according to the reports of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). Two PCG vessels and four others from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), a government civilian agency, are providing protection …
An article by the BBC reports on a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar, causing widespread destruction in several cities, including Mandalay, which was near the epicenter. The quake was felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand, where a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Both the Thai government and Myanmar’s military authorities have declared …
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the Philippines last Friday, March 28, and reaffirmed the US’s security commitments to the Philippines and the larger Indo-Pacific region. Secretary Hegseth discussed plans to deploy another missile system to the Philippines and help build the country’s defense manufacturing industry in the name of “re-establishing deterrence” in the …
April 2, 2025
Over 200 Filipinos, reportedly victims of human-trafficking and forced to work in scam hubs in Myawaddy, Myanmar, were rescued and repatriated to the Philippines following a coordinated operation between Philippine, Myanmar, and Thai authorities. The first batch of 30 Filipinos retuned home on March 25, followed by a second batch of 176 on March 26. The …
March 25, 2025
The Subic Bay area is seeing a lot of significant defense developments lately, an area that the Philippines and its ally the United States have historically considered a strategic area for Philippine defense in relation to the West Philippine Sea. U.S. Marine Corps Lease Warehouse for Logistics Assets in Subic Bay In February of this year, …
Authorities in the island province of Tawi-Tawi arrested five Chinese nationals reportedly trying to leave the Philippines for Sabah, Malaysia, to evade prosecution for offshore gaming-related crimes.PSA notes that Tawi-Tawi and the greater Zamboanga Peninsula area has historically been used as a “backdoor” route out of the country, used by fugitives, smugglers, and traffickers alike. …
On April 06, news site Bilyonaryo reported the abduction of a Filipino-Chinse businessman in Pasay City who allegedly remains in captivity as of this writing. According to the Bilyonaryo article, the victim was allegedly taken while they were dining at a restaurant. To date, there are limited open-source articles reporting on the details of the incident. …
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has recorded a total of 3,251 cybercrime complaints in the first quarter of 2025, indicating a 72 percent increase compared to the previous quarter (1,891) in 2024. The CICC has since attributed the recorded increase in complaints to the growing public awareness of cybercrime and the willingness to …
The China Coast Guard (CCG) reinstalled floating barriers around Scarborough Shoal on Monday, March 24, to prevent Filipino fisherfolk from entering the area, according to the reports of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). Two PCG vessels and four others from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), a government civilian agency, are providing protection …
An article by the BBC reports on a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar, causing widespread destruction in several cities, including Mandalay, which was near the epicenter. The quake was felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand, where a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Both the Thai government and Myanmar’s military authorities have declared …
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the Philippines last Friday, March 28, and reaffirmed the US’s security commitments to the Philippines and the larger Indo-Pacific region. Secretary Hegseth discussed plans to deploy another missile system to the Philippines and help build the country’s defense manufacturing industry in the name of “re-establishing deterrence” in the …
April 2, 2025
Over 200 Filipinos, reportedly victims of human-trafficking and forced to work in scam hubs in Myawaddy, Myanmar, were rescued and repatriated to the Philippines following a coordinated operation between Philippine, Myanmar, and Thai authorities. The first batch of 30 Filipinos retuned home on March 25, followed by a second batch of 176 on March 26. The …
March 25, 2025
The Subic Bay area is seeing a lot of significant defense developments lately, an area that the Philippines and its ally the United States have historically considered a strategic area for Philippine defense in relation to the West Philippine Sea. U.S. Marine Corps Lease Warehouse for Logistics Assets in Subic Bay In February of this year, …
