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
The deferment of the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is becoming even more likely as the national government makes it clear that it wants the elections postponed. Significant political and legal concerns are expected to arise regardless of whether the elections push through next year, but Congress will …
On November 17, 2024, two undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Central Europe were damaged by the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3. Reports suggest the ship, which had departed from a Russian Baltic port, inadvertently severed the cables by dragging its anchor. While U.S. intelligence officials believe the cuts were unintentional, European …
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The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) denied allegations of a data breach involving the eGovPH application. On Friday, November 8, over 200,000 know-your-customer (KYC) user data were allegedly accessed and offered for sale by a threat actor. Alleged eGovPH App Data Breach According to the report of …
Since the start of November 2024, the Philippines has experienced an unprecedented series of four tropical cyclones within a span of less than two weeks. These storms brought widespread destruction in the provinces of Northern Luzon and Bicol region. These consecutive storms highlight the increasing vulnerability of the Philippines to extreme weather events.Four storms traversing …
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The Philippines recently passed into law two pieces of legislation that reinforce the 2016 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitration ruling over the disputed waters of the West Philippine Sea. Signed on November 9, the Philippine Maritime Zones Act and the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act set not only clear …
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Amidst tensions in the West Philippine Sea, the Philippines has been strengthening its bilateral security ties with like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific Region. These countries include the U.S., with which the Philippines has strong historical ties; Japan, its top donor for Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), and Australia. Many observers now have been questioning whether the …
The deferment of the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is becoming even more likely as the national government makes it clear that it wants the elections postponed. Significant political and legal concerns are expected to arise regardless of whether the elections push through next year, but Congress will …
On November 17, 2024, two undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Central Europe were damaged by the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3. Reports suggest the ship, which had departed from a Russian Baltic port, inadvertently severed the cables by dragging its anchor. While U.S. intelligence officials believe the cuts were unintentional, European …
The Philippines and the United States recently signed an agreement to further strengthen defense and military cooperation between the two countries. PSA notes that such initiatives between the two countries are not new, but this is the first time that the Philippines and the U.S. formalized an agreement that will serve as a framework to …
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) denied allegations of a data breach involving the eGovPH application. On Friday, November 8, over 200,000 know-your-customer (KYC) user data were allegedly accessed and offered for sale by a threat actor. Alleged eGovPH App Data Breach According to the report of …
Since the start of November 2024, the Philippines has experienced an unprecedented series of four tropical cyclones within a span of less than two weeks. These storms brought widespread destruction in the provinces of Northern Luzon and Bicol region. These consecutive storms highlight the increasing vulnerability of the Philippines to extreme weather events.Four storms traversing …
November 19, 2024
The Philippines recently passed into law two pieces of legislation that reinforce the 2016 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitration ruling over the disputed waters of the West Philippine Sea. Signed on November 9, the Philippine Maritime Zones Act and the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act set not only clear …
November 12, 2024
Amidst tensions in the West Philippine Sea, the Philippines has been strengthening its bilateral security ties with like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific Region. These countries include the U.S., with which the Philippines has strong historical ties; Japan, its top donor for Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), and Australia. Many observers now have been questioning whether the …
