OSINT in Modern Investigations: Navigating Complexity with Open-Source Intelligence
As digital footprints grow, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is key to modern investigations, helping organisations address threats, disputes, and crises.
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In 2022 BGS provided an overarching security programme for one of the wealthiest and most high-profile families in the Middle East.
As digital footprints grow, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is key to modern investigations, helping organisations address threats, disputes, and crises.
For UHNW individuals, trusted staff and thorough security vetting are essential to protect privacy and sensitive aspects of daily life.
Close Protection (CP) is one of the most dynamic and respected, yet misinterpreted fields within the security sector. People transitioning from military or law enforcement backgrounds often fit well, due to their problem-solving and communication skills.
For UHNWIs, the NPSA’s new guidance arrives at a critical time. With targeted attacks and cyber-enabled threats on the rise, residences are now a primary vulnerability. The guidance reinforces the need for layered, risk-based security tailored to individual threat profiles.
Family Offices, the constantly high-revving engine room of the UHNW community, are subject to strain from a number of threats in its midst’s.
Whistleblowing is driven by a reasonable belief that serious issue such as a crime or a cover-up of malpractice is happening or likely to happen, and that exposing it serves the public interest.
The number of migrants crossing the English Channel has reached record levels, now surpassing 20,000 for the year and could reach 70,000 by the end of 2025.
Last Friday, 16th May, Simon Tasker, was privileged to form part of the GSA Global delegation attending the Embassy organised event at the Park Lane Intercontinental Hotel, in London.
Wednesday 14th May 2025 marks the one-year anniversary of an assassination attempt on a European political leader. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot during a public appearance in Handlova, Slovakia.
From stepping out of Royalty and Specialist Protection (RaSP) Headquarters in London leaving 31 years’ police service behind me, to leading Protective Services for GSA Global, time seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.
Before building effective defences against insider risks and threats, organisations must understand why some employees are susceptible – as Nietzsche pithily put it ‘[w]hen you know your ‘why,’ you can endure any ‘how.’’
Drones, once the stuff of science fiction and military strategy, have firmly integrated into everyday life. However, as drones become more common, so too do concerns about their misuse – often making headlines due to security and safety threats.