A plethora of private firms around the world offer customized security and risk management services. TAL Global and the Wexford Group are two firms that offer some of the most comprehensive security and risk management services, strategies, and techniques, interfacing between public and private sector and wielding power in a wide range of jurisdictions. Wexford Group offers services including operational advising, law enforcement support, program management, risk assessment, operations and intelligence fusion, development and fielding, and also recruitment, assessment, selection, and training (RAST) support for government agencies and private industries. TAL Global offers airport and aviation security, emergency preparedness planning, executive protection, risk management, school safety and security, and a range of other security services within their organizational rubric. These two organizations have similar leadership structures, dividing their different duties into different departments, each with its own organizational sub-structures. Working within the laws and jurisdictions of any client context, TAL Global and the Wexford Group are responsible for balancing security requirements with the need for human liberties and the protections of human rights.

Leadership Structures, Jurisdictions, and Methods

A wholly owned subsidiary of the esteemed group CACI International, the Wexford Group addresses issues related to how terrorism and similar asymmetrical threats undermine global, national, and local security. The Wexford Group’s Operational Advising has provided services to the United States Army, and was the original contact partner for the army’s Improvised Explosive Device Task Force (Wexford Group, 2017). To ensure the privacy and confidentiality of all clients, the Wexford Group discloses information about subcontractors and employees. A discreetly hierarchical organization, the Wexford Group’s leadership structure is specifically designed with informational security in mind, to protect the integrity of client data. TAL Global is similarly structured. A hierarchical organizational culture enables secure communications via chains of command systems, also effectively enabling... Because both TAL Global and Wexford Group offer such a broad range of services related to security and risk management, they both rely on subcontractors as well as employees with specialized skills and competencies in analytics, intelligence, surveillance and other sectors. Yet all operations fall under the rubric of the primary leadership structures of the parent organization. For example, the investigative solutions that TAL Global offers combine expertise in surveillance, litigation and legal prowess, with law enforcement strategies and techniques too. Both TAL Global and Wexford Group have in-house and international teams that work within various jurisdictions, necessarily navigating complex systems of international law and policy. However, Pillsbury’s (2017) Global Security Services focus more exclusively on the legal domains of international threat mitigation.
Likewise, TAL Global and Wexford Group operate within different international, national, and local jurisdictions, transacting between public and private sector. Their investigative services can be used by private organizations concerned about everything from internal organizational cultures, to background checks performed on potential business partners or clients. Because of the nature of global business, background checks may entail liaison with partners in different countries, requiring deft cultural competence in communications. Law enforcement partnerships also reveal the public-private nature of their operations. Digital forensics and forensic psychiatry are other means that may be used to conduct background checks to ensure security at all levels of public and private sector performance.

Methods used to conduct their risk assessments and securities services include all manner of surveillance tactics, as well as overt analyses of plant or public infrastructure. The Wexford Group can even offer rapid deployment of materials, personnel, and equipment needed to prevent or respond to crises or mitigate risks. The development and fielding techniques used by Wexford Group include exploratory investigations, arms supply and weapons assessments, assurances of maintenance and support teams, and…