Risk Intelligence & Economic Security Advisory | Corporate Intelligence Advisory

Understand your exposure before a threat actor does. Board-ready intelligence designed for clear, actionable decision-making.

The Problem

Most enterprise risk management is built around frameworks — standardised risk categories, probability matrices, and compliance-driven assessments. These frameworks tell organisations what risks they should be thinking about. They do not tell them what risks they are actually facing, who is behind those risks, or how close to materialisation those risks currently are.

The gap between framework risk and operational risk is where organisations are genuinely exposed. A competitor's intelligence operation targeting your key personnel. A financial counterparty whose beneficial ownership connects to a sanctioned entity. A supply chain dependency that a hostile actor has already identified and could exploit. None of these appear in a standard risk register until after the damage is done.

Economic security, the protection of your organisation's financial interests, proprietary information, and operational continuity against deliberate human threat, requires an intelligence approach, not a compliance approach. The difference is that intelligence identifies the actual adversaries and their actual intentions, rather than mapping theoretical risks against generic frameworks.

Why Corporate Intelligence Advisory

Corporate Intelligence Advisory risk intelligence is built from primary human sources. We assess your organization’s real exposure, based on firsthand insight rather than predefined risk frameworks. Our analysts identify the specific threat actors, the specific vulnerabilities, and the specific pathways by which your organization could be harmed.

This is not a theoretical exercise. Corporate Intelligence Advisory analysts have operational backgrounds. They understand how adversarial actors, competitors, hostile state actors, fraudsters, and insider threats, actually conduct intelligence operations against organisations. We assess your exposure the way a well-resourced adversary would assess it. And we tell your board what they need to know to act before exposure becomes incident.

Corporate Intelligence Advisory is delivered directly to executive and board audiences as an intelligence assessment with specific, prioritized recommendations, designed for decision-making rather than compliance reporting.

Solutions - What we deliver

▸ Process Integrity & Vulnerability Review

An intelligence-led review of your organization’s enterprise processes and procedures — identifying structural vulnerabilities across people, systems, and workflows that represent exploitable exposure points for insider threats, external actors, or regulatory scrutiny. Corporate Intelligence Advisory applies an adversarial intelligence lens across the full enterprise footprint, assessing your processes the way a well-informed threat actor would. Findings are delivered as a prioritized remediation programme with actionable recommendations at process and governance level.

▸ Process Vulnerability Assessment

A focused intelligence-led review of specific operational processes — identifying where vulnerabilities exist that could be exploited by insiders, external actors, regulators, or competitors. Goes beyond standard process audit: Corporate Intelligence Advisory assesses the specific processes your organization relies on, maps the vulnerability points, and delivers actionable findings with prioritised remediation steps calibrated to the actual threat environment.

▸ Risk Exposure Heat Mapping

A visualized, board-facing representation of your organization’s risk landscape, mapping threats by probability, proximity, and potential impact. Built from primary intelligence rather than theoretical risk modelling. Corporate Intelligence Advisory heat mapping reflects the actual threat environment as assessed by analysts with access to human source reporting and informed by statistical models applied to historical data.. Designed for governance presentations and board-level risk oversight.

▸ Economic Security Audit

A structured audit of your organization’s economic security posture - covering assets, personnel access and loyalty risk, financial counterparty exposure, information flows, contractual vulnerabilities, and supply chain dependencies. Identifies where your organization is genuinely exposed to deliberate economic threat and by whom. Delivered as a confidential executive report with a prioritized remediation programme. Particularly relevant for organizations operating in sectors targeted by foreign intelligence services, hostile competitive actors, or organized financial crime.

▸ Risk & Vulnerability Advisory

Primary-source intelligence advisory on the specific risks and vulnerabilities facing your organization — delivered directly to executive and board audiences. Corporate Intelligence Advisory analysts assess your organization’s actual exposure across people, information, financial counterparties, and operational processes, and provide actionable counsel on the specific threat actors, vulnerabilities, and pathways by which your organization could be harmed. Not a framework exercise — an intelligence assessment with specific, prioritized recommendations.

▸ Strategic Business Advisory

Ongoing senior advisory providing executive leadership with intelligence-backed counsel on the full range of strategic business decisions - market moves, partnerships, key appointments, regulatory engagement, and competitive positioning. Corporate Intelligence Advisory strategic advisory is not management consulting. It is intelligence-informed counsel from analysts who understand the environment your organization operates in from a primary-source perspective. Delivered on retainer or on a project basis, calibrated to the specific advisory needs of the engagement.