Our services

We carry out both overarching and thorough risk and emergency analyses to identify threats, vulnerabilities, and potential consequences for your business. Based on our proven models and principles, we deliver concrete measures to minimize risk and strengthen preparedness.

The analyses provide you with a solid foundation for making strategic, operational, and tactical decisions, as well as building a sustainable preparedness organization.

We assist you in developing robust continuity plans that ensure your business can maintain operations even during crises or critical disruptions. Our plans are based on risk documents and Business Impact Analyses (BIA) to manage residual risk associated with continuity challenges in critical business processes and related inputs. This forms the basis for prioritizing critical functions, risk-reducing measures, and developing strategies and redundancy, so that the business is minimally impacted and can quickly resume normal operations.

The continuity plans include risk-based and scenario-based action cards, which, together with exercises and training, strengthen your resilience and ability to handle events that may cause the loss of critical business processes. This ensures a swift recovery and return to normal operations.

We develop customized emergency plans as a foundation for your organization's ability to handle crises and unexpected events.

With our help, you get a comprehensive and operationally oriented plan that reflects proactive methodology. It addresses your dimensioning risks and includes necessary areas of responsibility, functions, procedures, and measures for effective crisis management.

We design and facilitate realistic exercises that test your organization’s preparedness and crisis management capabilities. Our scenario-adapted exercises provide a practical test of the preparedness organization, while also verifying effectiveness and revealing any weaknesses or uncertainties. Through these exercises, we identify improvement areas within organization, plans, routines, and preparedness work, strengthening your ability to handle unforeseen events.

Our exercises strengthen cooperation, decision-making, and the ability to handle real situations – all to ensure you are well-prepared when it truly matters.

We have the competence to offer a wide range of themes and exercise scenarios and have long and varied experience in facilitating exercises that cover everything from digital incidents, accidents, intentional actions, business continuity, and reputation management. We have extensive experience in training everything from single preparedness teams at tactical, operational, or strategic levels, to joint training of all levels and complex preparedness organizations with various business areas.

All the exercises we facilitate for our clients challenge all key aspects of crisis management, including strategic considerations, operational coordination, communication, and psychosocial aspects.

We conduct structured evaluations of your crisis management to identify lessons learned and improvement opportunities. By analyzing efforts, decisions, and cooperation during real events or exercises, we provide concrete recommendations to strengthen the organization’s crisis preparedness and management capabilities.

Our goal is to help you become even more effective and better prepared for future challenges.

We annually assist around 200 ports and port facilities with an annual program within port security where we help conduct and document the required annual activities mandated by the regulations. Quarterly drills and annual exercises, security meetings, internal audits, and continuous advice on port security. We also offer exercises for testing and verifying the effectiveness of security systems.

The ISPS Code requires a security risk analysis (PFSA) and a security plan (PFSP) for each port facility. PFSA is an integral part of the overall management of security risk for port facilities and forms the basis for developing a security plan. For PFSA to provide an accurate assessment of security risk, it is crucial to analyze assets, threats, and vulnerabilities while assessing the effectiveness of existing security measures. This holistic approach forms the basis for determining the need for risk-reducing measures, including inspections, searches, access control, exercise execution, and any enhanced security measures at levels 2 and 3. This requires effective communication between RSO and PFSO regarding security objectives, risk management strategy, and the approach to achieving acceptable residual risk.

Similarly, the Port Security Regulation (May 29, 2013, No. 529) and Directive 2005/65/EC require a port vulnerability assessment (PSA) and a security plan (PSP) for each port. Both analyses are based on the method for security risk analysis outlined in NS 5832:2014 – Social Security – Protection against intentional unwanted actions – Requirements for security risk analysis.

We conduct both types of security risk analyses in accordance with current regulations and templates from the Coastal Administration. Through this work, we identify and analyze consequences, threats, and vulnerabilities for your port security area. This includes risk assessment, proposed measures, and advice to establish a long-term, sustainable, and effective security system that meets relevant regulatory requirements.

Port Security Regulation and the Port Facility Security Regulation require the development of a security plan for all port facilities and ports, based on an approved security risk analysis.

We deliver both types of security plans, based on our own developed template. With a focus on meeting current regulations and regulatory requirements, we deliver customized solutions that operationally and user-friendly ensure a holistic approach to security at all maritime security levels.

A simple and targeted tabletop exercise that can be adapted to the entire or parts of a crisis management team, strategic management, or other departments and external actors to train on interfaces, plans, and routines. The exercises often focus on one or more exercise elements and are supported by 1-2 advisors through an escalating scenario presented in PowerPoint. The purpose can vary from training part of the organization in specific areas, scenarios, new tools, or pure methodology. Generally, tabletop exercises are used to clarify responsibilities and tasks related to handling crises and unwanted incidents.

Extended tabletop exercises are often used for the same purpose but involve multiple staffs or functions, both internal and external, training simultaneously based on a PowerPoint presentation.

Simulation exercises are a form of exercise where scenarios, events, and input are prepared in a script without physical play. For full-scale exercises, a script is also prepared, but parts of the play take place physically, for example with markers.

For larger exercises, an exercise directive is prepared and distributed to the participants a week before the exercise. The directive describes the framework (objectives and purpose) and the rules for conducting the exercise. It will also include a phone list showing who is participating and who can be contacted during the exercise.

For both simulation and full-scale exercises, an exercise staff must be established, consisting of experienced advisors, as well as relevant personnel from the organization being trained. Participation from the organization is important for continuous quality assurance of input and response. Inputs can be given in several ways, and we recommend a combination of exercise web, email, phone, or physical input. The exercise web, controlled by the exercise staff, mirrors what is published in the media, on social media, intranet, and other relevant platforms. The exercise web is web-based and interactive, and all participants can be given access.

In addition to the exercise staff, observers should be present during the exercises. The observers use our checklists to assess the preparedness and crisis management work and to evaluate whether the set exercise objectives are achieved. The checklists form an important basis for evaluation and reporting after the exercise. Depending on the client's wishes, the role of the observers can be expanded to include active advice during the exercise. This is particularly relevant for management teams at the strategic and operational levels.

We offer interim solutions where our experienced specialists step in as temporary support in the organization. Whether you need a crisis manager, emergency preparedness coordinator, security manager, or other key competence, we ensure that you quickly get the expertise needed. With a focus on continuity and quality, we help you maintain stability and efficiency in the business, whether during changes or acute needs.

We offer continuous consulting that helps your business develop and maintain a high level of security and preparedness. Our experts are available to provide strategic insight, practical guidance, and customized solutions that meet your specific needs. With ongoing consulting, we ensure that you are always well-prepared to manage risks and strengthen the organization's resilience.

We conduct various types of risk and vulnerability analyses that provide a clear picture of the risk and risk level in your business. Our analyses lay the foundation for strategic decisions and necessary measures. With our assistance, you can ensure that the organization is better prepared to handle and minimize the consequences of various types of incidents, so you can respond quickly and effectively when it truly matters.

We perform risk-based emergency preparedness analyses to analyze dimensioning accident incidents, their organization’s ability to handle them, and the performance requirements needed to ensure comprehensive and effective management. The emergency preparedness analysis is based on defined hazard and accident situations from a risk document and assesses how the organization’s preparedness should be dimensioned to handle these through four defined preparedness phases:

• Monitor

• Alert and mobilize

• Handle

• Normalize.

The emergency preparedness analysis is conducted in a structured manner, with an assessment of performance requirements for preparedness solutions in each phase. We analyze the defined hazard and accident situations to identify necessary measures, as well as the roles and functions that must be addressed for effective management. We also look at the need for equipment, tools, and aids required in each phase to ensure a rapid and appropriate response.

We assist clients in managing challenges related to business continuity and conduct tailor-made Business Impact Analyses (BIA). The purpose of the analysis is to map the company’s business processes and identify the processes that are particularly critical for business continuity.

The BIA identifies and assesses the input factors for each process and analyzes the consequences of the loss of these. We also assess to what extent other input factors or redundant measures can compensate for the loss. Furthermore, we evaluate risk-reducing measures that enable rapid recovery or compensation of processes and critical input factors within a tolerable downtime.

By mapping consequences, recovery times, and resource needs, we help you prioritize necessary measures and develop strategies to minimize the impact on the critical business processes. A thorough BIA provides a solid foundation for ensuring continuity and long-term resilience in your business.

We have extensive and varied experience from various sectors of society in developing tailor-made and operationally oriented crisis and emergency plans that strengthen your organization's ability to handle crises and unexpected events. Our plans include clear roles and responsibilities, as well as communication strategies and practical measures that ensure a structured and effective response.

With our expertise, we help you create plans that are tailored to your business, ensuring you are well-prepared to minimize the impact of potential crises. Our goal is to provide you with the tools and guidelines needed to handle critical situations professionally and in a coordinated manner.

We develop tailor-made continuity plans that ensure your business can continue operating even during crisis situations or other disruptions. Our plans identify and prioritize your critical functions and outline effective strategies for rapid recovery.

With a robust continuity plan, you strengthen your business's resilience, minimize disruptions, and facilitate continuous operations, even under the most challenging conditions. We help you be prepared to handle unforeseen events and minimize the risk of prolonged operational interruptions.

With extensive experience in developing security plans based on security risk analyses or other risk documents, we deliver operational and practical plans for your business. Our security plans are developed with a focus on managing residual risks practically and operationally through clearly defined action cards, with concrete measures for handling dimensioning security risks.

Our plans are designed to operate security systems both under normal operating conditions and during periods of increased threat, elevated risk, or extraordinary events. We ensure that your business is prepared to protect values effectively and structured, regardless of the situation.