Services

We offer three core product lines tailored towards individual requirements, so as to provide a bespoke and comprehensive service. A brief synopsis of these products and services can be found below.

Security Risk Management

The basic skill of security risk management is the ability to complete a risk analysis and use the results to produce sensible and cost effective procedures to reduce and or counter the risk. This skill is a core discipline within ISSL and it is used in all tasks and includes:

 

Support to developers requiring security input to their projects. This runs from advice to architects and engineers who are building facilities that are required to have a security of the highest standard, including facilities to be used by government departments, to the development of the management procedures required to ensure the standards are met.

 

Advice to marine vessels in hostile situations covering both piracy and transit through war zones in the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin. This includes vessel “hardening”, crew training, the deployment of specialist ISSL security teams both armed and non armed and the arranging of Kidnap and Ransom insurance cover for crews manning the vessels in the danger areas and the deployment by ISSL of personnel to assit with the negotiations to release crews that have been kidnapped by pirates.

 

The management of Close Protection (CP) Teams for the Principals and families of high net worth individuals who require risk reduction and support as they travel. The team and management is provided by ISSL staff who interface with the clients and use local CP personnel in the countries visited who have been previously been vetted and who have their own local interface to the  local law enforcement  departments.

Business Intelligence and Investigations

Focussed on recovering assets and determining culpability, ISSL offers a corporate investigations service to mitigate revenue loss arising from fraudulent activity. Utilising both human and IT resources to identify, analyse and investigate problems, ISSL has successfully resolved a number of complex frauds in a wide range of business sectors. Our network of associates and staff enable us to act promptly and with the utmost discretion to protect our client’s interests.

 

ISSL has a track record of complex investigations in numerous countries. These investigations have taken place in the UK, US, Europe, the Caribbean, Russia and other countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Africa. ISSL has developed programmes for a global Financial Institution providing business intelligence to support them in their negotiations during business recovery programmes.

 

Our experience over many years has allowed us to accumulate information and understanding about groups of people who have a track record of both facilitating and taking part in fraudulent activities. This has allowed us to be able to support 5 clients on an immediate basis when they have been targeted and allowed us to identify a potential threat and to advise the target before the action takes place.

Surveying Services

ISSL provides surveying services that help to identify and reduce risk. ISSL has a very strong relationship with the Lloyds' market and international insurers, but also works with corporate clients to provide independent risk-assessment surveys. ISSL has a global network of associates who reside in disparate geographical regions. This enables a timely and cost effective survey as the associates need not always depart from London in order to carry out their instructions. Historically, we have been able to assist clients in obtaining insurance cover when their operations are located in difficult environments.