Diplomatic Security Service protects principals whose position, wealth or work places them at risk: diplomats, executives, families and delegations. Three disciplines, one standard, delivered by a small team accustomed to working at the level where discretion is not a courtesy but a requirement.
Request a confidential briefingLatebra factum — done in concealment.
We do what a principal at genuine risk needs and decline the rest. Each discipline is led by a specialist and integrated with the other two, so the digital, physical and movement layers of a principal's exposure are handled as one problem.
The modern threat to a principal arrives through a phone before it arrives at a door. We secure the devices, communications and digital footprint of the principal, the family and the inner circle.
Close protection officers selected for judgement as much as capability: government and military protection backgrounds, low profile, fluent in the environments our principals move through.
Movement is where exposure concentrates. We plan and run every journey, from airport to residence to venue, with trained drivers, armoured vehicles where warranted and a protection officer in the car.
What we do not do. No static guarding, no mining or industrial security, no alarm response, no volume contracts. If a requirement can be met by a conventional security company, it should be, and we will say so.
Our people, procedures and equipment are held to the standard used to protect heads of mission and heads of state, and to the same principle: the principal should be able to forget we are there.
We work for a small number of principals at a time, either on a retained basis covering all three disciplines or for a defined visit, event or period of elevated risk. New engagements begin with a private conversation, an assessment and a written proposal. We take on those we can serve at the standard above, and decline the rest.
Physical protection is only as good as the assessment beneath it. Two specialist partners give our engagements an intelligence layer and a technical layer that a protection team alone cannot provide.
Third Option's Human Threat Intelligence (HTI) establishes who around a principal holds access, who can be relied upon, and what open and human sources reveal over time. Its Insider Threat Programme (ITP) turns that into an ongoing discipline: vetting of staff, drivers and household, behavioural indicator review, and case handling with a defensible chain of custody.
Ai Software Development engineers the technical layer: production-grade AI systems that correlate signals across devices, travel, communications and open sources, resolve identities, and surface the anomaly before it becomes an incident. Built to run quietly in the background of a protective operation, owned by the client, and never dependent on a third-party platform.
The perimeter
Everything an adversary can reach from outside
Exposure and vulnerability management: attack surface management, penetration testing as a service, threat intelligence, credential-breach monitoring and identity security. Discover, test, prioritise, fix — continuously.
VisitThe vault
The data itself, protected in use
Infrastructure and AI security: confidential computing, confidential AI, sovereign data residency and production AI implementation — so sensitive workloads stay protected even from the operator running them.
VisitThe information environment
What is being said — and who is manufacturing it
DSM-SOC: 24×7 graded intelligence on the public information environment around a principal, ministry or national programme; lawful measured counter-narrative response; and, once the evidence justifies it, forecasting, synthetic-media detection and influence-network mapping.
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Cape Town, South Africa · Africa, Europe and the Middle East
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