Risk & Resilience

Leaders with subject matter expertise across diverse industries, technical focus areas, security disciplines and threat types empower Partner Forces’ Risk + Resilience practice area. From energy to aviation, chemical to transportation, our experts share their expertise and help government and private sector partners across sectors manage risk and become more resilient.

Our experts have cultivated specialized skills and years of experience tackling challenges across a broad array of security disciplines, including: cybersecurity, infrastructure security, physical security, intelligence, incident response and risk management. We offer end-to-end risk management advice and support to help clients prepare for, detect, analyze, and mitigate evolving risks, threats and other potential crises. Our forward-thinking, holistic approach to risk management helps our clients tackle the challenges of today while anticipating and building resilience to the risks of tomorrow.

Our Risk & Resilience capabilities include:
Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning

We develop comprehensive plans and artifacts to ensure our clients continue to operate and carry out their mission in emergency situations.

Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity

We provide governance, policy, program management, and risk management support to help lead, support, and mature cybersecurity programs.

Incident Response
Incident Response

We provide real-time incident management support to help our clients manage teams, share information, advance interagency coordination efforts, and respond to critical incidents and events.

Intelligence and Operations
Intelligence and Operations

Our cleared professionals collect, fuse and analyze intelligence to develop a clear operational picture and inform tactical and strategic actions.

Preparedness & Response Planning
Preparedness & Response Planning

We help clients prepare for critical risks and other potential high impact emergencies by bringing stakeholders together, aligning on emergency response plans and facilitating tabletop exercises.

Risk Assessments
Risk Assessments

We conduct comprehensive risk assessments to help clients understand their diverse risk landscape and build resilience. We identify risks, analyze the probability and potential impact, and develop solutions to mitigate priority risks.

Project Spotlights

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Improving Emergency Preparedness, Community Outreach Efforts and Flood Resilience in Texas

State of Texas, General Land Office
EXPERTISE

The Challenge

Following Hurricane Harvey, a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane that wreaked havoc across Texas and Louisiana in 2017, the State of Texas wanted to better understand how it could best support local communities and prioritize flood projects in the wake of the disaster.

The Partnership

The State of Texas and other partners retained Partner Forces to help improve emergency preparedness, engage communities, and enhance flood resilience across the state’s eastern coast.

The Impact

As a result of Partner Forces’ leadership and creative outreach efforts, our team is helping the state’s General Land Office:

Improve Emergency Preparedness & Build Resilience
  • Execute a high stakes, high-priority study to identify high priority flood projects
  • Identify flood projects that require additional funding and support
  • Better prepare the state of Texas for future flood disasters
Engage & Build Partnerships with State & Local Stakeholders
  • Engage dozens of stakeholders across 25 counties to ensure local knowledge and data is incorporated in the development of new flood models and the prioritization of new flood mitigation projects
  • Improve communications with local communities, and cultivate and build productive relationships with diverse stakeholders across the state
  • Bring together diverse stakeholders to collect vital feedback and data and drive consensus on issues that inform flood modeling and flood resilience efforts
EXPERTISE
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Spearheading a Comprehensive Risk and Emergency Preparedness & Response Plan to Improve Physical Security at a High-Occupancy Commercial Facility

A Texas-Based Security Provider
EXPERTISE

The Challenge

A Texas-based security solutions provider was charged with securing one of the state’s largest commercial buildings in downtown Houston.

The Partnership

Working hand-in-hand with our partner, Partner Forces provided expert risk advisory, management and emergency planning services to address building security needs in a high-occupancy building. Our expert risk advisors identified potential physical security risks and developed a comprehensive Emergency Response Plan to help better prepare the 35-story commercial facility for emergency scenarios.

The Impact

As a result of our close partnership, leadership and subject matter expertise, Partner Forces helped our client:

Improve Emergency Preparedness
  • Institutionalize and formalize emergency response protocols
  • Possess and adopt a robust emergency planning playbook and risk assessment tool that can be repurposed and tailored to improve risk awareness and resiliency at other facilities
Build Relationships & Strengthen Partnerships
  • Establish and cultivate relationships with local, regional and federal security agencies, helping enhance information sharing and emergency planning and response efforts
  • Raise public awareness about sUAS threats and how to mitigate them
  • Open new communications channels with international counterparts and other security entities
Build Resilience
  • Understand and objectively validate the risk landscape and how to better prioritize and prepare for emergencies
EXPERTISE
PARTNER FORCES