Thinking outside the box is what sets us apart. Our diverse and eclectic team of security professionals and analysts are all at the top of their game. Each one draws from a different background, along with different nationalities and training, to together provide fresh, integrated intelligence.
Deep Dive Risk AssessmentsDiscreet Security Advisors & Back WatchersIntegrated Security ReviewsSecurity Penetration TestingCrisis Management Training
Our risk assessments are not off-the-shelf mimeographs that do little more than copy and paste Western embassy security guidelines.
Instead our team provides comprehensive assessments that include both key and concise background material, followed by deep dive contemporary analysis.
All of it written in a readable, engaging format designed for executives with limited time. (Our experts have written for The Economist, and had bylines in Foreign Affairs and Jane’s Intelligence Review.)
Finally, each risk assessment comes with ground-specific recommendations tailored to your specific operations and goals.
GJS Back Watchers provide newsgatherers with trained eyes and ears to keep them safe while they report. These professionals bring experience in tactical environments and emergency first aid to help teams monitor risks, identify escape routes, and navigate changing conditions on the ground. Each Back Watcher comes equipped with a GJS first aid kit and our support services on 24-hour demand. Designed to fully protect media clients, GJS Back Watchers are insured by Lloyd’s of London.
GJS is the first U.S.-based provider to offer media-focused Back Watchers in the United States.
GJS Back Watchers are:
- Trained in U.S. case law regarding the press and civil unrest to help clients avoid arrest.
- Trained in situational awareness and the hazards that come from reporting on dangerous situations.
- Selected for their discretion and profile to blend in with journalists and news crews.
- Trained in both police and protestor tactics in civil unrest situations.
- Trained in mob violence and police responses at events like the World Cup.
- Trained by journalists on how to advise news crews to stay safe and keep working.
- Trained by law enforcement experts in how to notice signs of pre-attack behavior.
- Trained by experts in how to identify and move to cover in active shooter situations.
- Trained in emergency first aid and casualty care techniques and improvised carries.
- Backed by GJS, the industry leader in hostile environments training and support.
We help organizations discover their own security vulnerabilities across both physical and digital realms, and work with them to establish solid protocols to keep their information, communications, equipment, facilities, personnel and stakeholders all safe.
We review organizational procedures from headquarters to field offices, in addition to reviewing communications, travel and lodging policies prior to secure operations and personnel on the ground.
Our digital security experts will test your platforms, networks and users to find points of weakness that could put your operations and people at risk.
We identify assets and both the user targets and technological doors that hackers could use to penetrate your system.
We provide a detailed breakdown of your organization’s vulnerabilities. We train your users to avoid mistakes, and work with your technologists to minimize vulnerabilities.
Our personnel recovery experts will present a series of crisis management protocols, covering both ethical and legal risks, and multiple response options.
One of our emotional self-care experts will lead the team in tactical breathing, which may seem out of place in an office until a simulated crisis hits.
We will then simulate scenarios for your executive team to manage such as a disappearance or death, a delicate and complex exfiltration, a kidnapping-for-ransom, or some two or more at the same time.
We will debrief from the experience as a group, and work with you to establish a sustainable response strategy.