Executive Protection and Personal Security Consulting
Independent protection for senior executives, board members, judicial officers, senior government officials and high-profile individuals. It starts with a threat and risk assessment, covers the person’s whole security picture, and keeps every protection service accountable to the risk.
What is Executive Protection?
Executive protection is the planned management of the risk of harm to a specific person because of who they are or what they do. That person might be a chief executive, a judge, a regulator, a senior public servant, or a public figure and their family. Done properly, it covers the person’s whole life: their online presence, their home and any holiday home, their family, their vehicles and daily movements, their office, their travel, and the board meetings, AGMs and public events they attend.
Most people think of executive protection as close personal protection, a trained officer at the principal’s side. That is one control, and sometimes the right one. In most cases, however, the greatest reduction in risk comes from earlier and quieter measures: knowing who poses a credible threat, removing the information that makes the person easy to find, hardening the home, and giving the household and their support staff a clear plan for when something changes.
Agilient approaches executive protection and executive security as a security risk assessment applied to a person rather than a building. The result is a protection program that is proportionate, explainable to a board or an agency head, and reviewable as the threat changes.
why choose us
Why Choose Agilient for Executive Security?
Agilient is an independent security, risk and resilience consultancy with more than 300 projects delivered and about 20 specialist consultants. It has no guarding, protection or equipment revenue, so the advice is shaped by the risk to the person rather than by anything we have to sell.
Assessment First, Not People First
Many protection providers come from policing or military backgrounds and are very good at running a protective detail. Agilient starts one step earlier: who could cause harm, how likely that is, and which controls actually reduce it. Protection officers are recommended when the risk calls for them, not by default.
Independent of Every Provider
Agilient has no commercial alignment with any guarding, close protection, monitoring or equipment provider. It acts as the client’s partner, setting the requirement and checking that each provider is licensed and capable. Where several providers are needed, Agilient can coordinate or lead them on the client’s behalf, transparently and without favour.
The Whole Picture, Including Online
A protective detail does nothing about a home address published online or a daily routine posted on social media. Agilient reviews the online footprint, the residence, the workplace and the person’s movements together, so no single gap is left open.
Why Are Personal Security Risks Rising for Senior Leaders?
Public officials, judicial officers and corporate leaders are attracting more hostility than they did a decade ago. Much of it begins online, where a decision, a court ruling or an enforcement action can make one person the face of an unpopular outcome. Australian police have set up specialist units to assess and manage fixated persons for this reason, and research on Australian practice treats fixation on public figures as a recognised pathway to harassment and violence.
Employers carry a duty here too. Under work health and safety law, an organisation must manage the risks to its people so far as is reasonably practicable, including the psychosocial harm caused by threats and abuse. A personal security risk assessment gives the organisation an evidence-based view of that risk and a defensible record of what it did about it.
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What Does Agilient’s Executive Protection Service Include?
Each engagement is scoped to the person and the threat. The services below can be taken individually or as one protection program.
Threat and Risk Assessment
A structured assessment of the people and groups with a motive to cause harm, rated for intent and capability, and the person’s exposure to them. Risks are rated against the client’s own risk criteria or a framework aligned to AS ISO 31000:2018.
Online Exposure and Threat Review
A lawful, read-only review of what social media, news sites, public records and AI assistants reveal about the person, their family, their home and their routine. Hostile content is analysed against recognised escalation indicators, and anything that warrants it is referred to police.
Home, Family, Office and Movement
A residential security assessment of the primary residence and any holiday home, plus vehicles, the office, and travel to and from work, covering perimeter, access, lighting, integrated security systems and safe room options.
AGMs, Board Meetings and Events
Protection planning for annual general meetings, board meetings, public appearances and significant organisational events where senior executives, directors and other key people are present, including venue assessment, protest and issue-motivated group risk, provider coordination and contingency planning.
Personal Security Plan, Systems and Response
A tiered plan setting out the measures at each threat level, the triggers for stepping up or down, and who to call, backed by integrated security systems such as CCTV, intruder alarms and monitoring, and a tested response capability.
Executive Protection Services, Coordinated or Provided
Where the risk calls for close personal protection, residential guarding or monitored response, Agilient specifies the requirement, engages and coordinates licensed providers on the client’s behalf, and oversees delivery. In urgent situations Agilient can provide short-term protective support through its own licensed personnel.
Who Does Agilient Protect?
Agilient protects judicial officers, through judicial security reviews of the home arranged by their court; senior government officials and statutory office holders; corporate leaders and boards, including the AGMs and events they attend; and high-profile individuals and families, including public figures, entertainers, high net worth families and family offices, where VIP protection is needed around a profile rather than a role.
Engagements are handled in confidence, and Agilient does not name its clients. Read how this works in practice in our case studies on judicial security, CEO protection and AGM security planning.
Security Solutions Nation-Wide
With a national footprint, our security consulting services support organisations across Australia in managing risk, compliance, and security strategy. We combine industry expertise with a practical approach to deliver consistent outcomes across all states and territories.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Executive protection is the whole program for keeping a person safe: assessing the threat, reducing online exposure, securing the home and workplace, planning travel and events, and responding when something changes. Close personal protection is one part of it, where trained and licensed officers accompany the person. Many people need the first without the second.
Agilient’s method follows the structure used internationally for high-risk individuals, published by the UK National Protective Security Authority, and adds a formal risk rating, which that guidance does not provide. It is also consistent with the ASIS International Executive Protection Standard released in 2025.
- Understand the person. Their roles, public profile, family, routines and the decisions or issues that attract attention.
- Assess the threat. Who has a motive, how capable they are, and what the online review, any incident history, police advice and published national threat assessments show.
- Assess vulnerability. What an adversary could find out and where the person could be reached: online, at home, at work and on the move.
- Rate the risk. Credible scenarios are rated for likelihood and consequence, before and after treatment.
- Reduce the risk. A prioritised set of measures in a tiered personal security plan, with clear escalation triggers.
- Brief and review. Separate briefings for the principal and the organisation’s security lead, and a review after any significant incident or change in the threat.
Interim advice is given straight away if anything urgent is found. A typical assessment runs over two to three weeks.
- What is published about the person and their family across social media, news and comment sections, forums and public records.
- What AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot say when asked about the person, including where they live, who their family are and where they will appear next.
- Hostile accounts and content, assessed for fixation, escalation and links between accounts.
- The threat environment the person operates in, drawn from published national threat assessments, open-source reporting and, through the client, liaison with police.
All research is lawful and read-only. Agilient does not contact or engage with any account, does not investigate individuals, and refers matters of concern to the client and to police. Family members are included only with their consent.
Doxxing, the malicious publication of a person’s personal information, has been a Commonwealth criminal offence since the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024, carrying up to six years’ imprisonment, or seven years where it targets people because they belong to a particular group, such as their race or religion. The law helps after the event. Reducing what can be published in the first place is the better protection.
AGM security and corporate event security start from the same fact: annual general meetings, board meetings and major organisational events bring a company’s chief executive, chair, directors and senior leaders into one place at a known time, often in public. That makes them a focus for protest groups, issue-motivated activists and aggrieved individuals.
Agilient plans these events as part of the protection program, with an event security plan for each one: assessing the venue and the likely threats, reviewing what is being said online beforehand, setting arrival, departure and holding arrangements for key people, coordinating venue security and any third-party providers, and agreeing contingency plans with the organisation and police where needed.
Being the subject of threats is stressful, and the anxiety often falls hardest on family members. Agilient supports the principal through what is usually a difficult period, not only through the security measures. That can include regular welfare checks on the principal and their family, briefing and reassuring family members so they understand what is in place and why, and being a consistent point of contact as the situation develops. Protection that the family understands and trusts is protection that holds.
Not usually. Most people with a public profile face online hostility and the risk of harassment rather than a planned physical attack, and that risk is better reduced through a threat assessment, a cleaner online footprint, a secure home and a clear plan. Close personal protection is warranted where the assessment finds a credible, specific threat or a high-exposure event. A personal security risk assessment answers the question with evidence.
Agilient’s role is to assess the need and make sure every protection service fits the risk. Agilient is independent of protection providers, so it can engage, coordinate and oversee one or several licensed providers on the client’s behalf, transparently and without commercial alignment. In urgent situations Agilient can provide short-term protective support through its own licensed personnel while longer-term arrangements are made.
A lawful, read-only search of social media, news and comment sections, public records and AI assistants for what is published about the person, their family, their home and their movements, and for hostile content directed at them. Hostile accounts are assessed for fixation and escalation, and any matter of concern is referred to police. The review also shows which personal details can be removed or reduced.
Either. Many assessments are commissioned by the employer, court or agency, which has a duty of care to the person. Others are commissioned privately by the individual or their family office. In both cases the findings are handled confidentially and shared only with the people who need them.
Start with a threat assessment of the meeting itself: who is likely to attend or protest, what is being organised online, and how exposed key people are on arrival, on stage and on departure. From there, the venue, security staffing, holding areas, movement routes and contingency plans can be set in proportion to the risk, with one party coordinating venue security, any protection officers and police liaison so nothing falls between providers.
