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Exposure Assessment

Your Project
Isn’t the Risk.

It’s the 90-second gap.

Product launches. Shareholder meetings. Film locations. Political fundraisers. Private gatherings. Sporting events. In every industry Shadow serves, there is a moment when the plan meets reality and the people responsible for safety are operating without senior security leadership. Not a staffing gap. A leadership gap. The 90 seconds where everything either holds or it does not.

The Leadership Gap

Most small and mid-sized organizations have security measures. Almost none have security leadership. The difference is who makes decisions when the plan meets reality and the clock is running.

Exposure Assessment · USSS Methodology · Confidential

Find the gaps
before someone
else does.

Find out where your gaps are. Twelve questions. Three to five minutes. A confidential read on the gaps in your protective posture, scored against the same advance methodology used on the Presidential Protective Division. No salesperson follows up uninvited.
12 questions · 3 to 5 minutes
Strictly confidential
No salesperson follows up uninvited
Authored by Michael de Geus, former USSS Presidential Protective Division
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Methodology

This assessment is built on the advance methodology developed inside the United States Secret Service Presidential Protective Division. It is the same operating model Michael de Geus applied across twelve years of federal service, and now applies inside Shadow.

Michael de Geus, Founder
Where the Gap Shows Up

Seven industries.
One gap.

Corporate

A VP receives a threat during a board transition. A workplace incident escalates before HR knows who to call. The gap is not in your perimeter. It is in the 90 seconds before the right person makes the right decision.

Entertainment

Talent exits a premiere through the wrong door. A credentialed individual on production becomes a problem at wrap. The gap is not in your crowd control. It is in the advance work that never happened.

Events

A keynote speaker arrives without a route. The VIP holding area is accessible from a public corridor. The gap is not in your venue staffing. It is in the operations order that was never written.

Political

A rally site is surveyed once. Counter-protesters arrive with a different plan. The gap is not in your visibility. It is in the advance work that should have mapped it three days out.

Film & TV

A location is cleared for production. A disruptive individual returns. The gap is not in your on-set presence. It is in the threat picture that was never drawn for that address.

Private Events

Your guest list is curated and the venue is secured. Then someone makes contact with the principal, or the exit is through the crowd. The gap is not in your staffing. It is in who was accountable before the event started.

Sports & Athletics

An athlete exits a stadium without a route plan. A credentialed individual has access they should not. The gap is not in your uniformed presence. It is in the protection architecture that was never built around the principal.

Exposure Assessment

Your industry not listed?
The gap exists there too.

Twelve questions. Three to five minutes. A confidential read on where your program is exposed — regardless of sector.

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