Targeted protection Valkyrie CEO Floyd Woodrow shares how the security specialists combine high-tech expertise with on-the-ground experience to protect individuals, families and businesses from modern threats
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alkyrie is a well-established private security company based in central London. We have established an enviable reputation in providing the highest quality security services in London, the wider UK and globally. “Our suite of services has been tailored to provide complete security and lifestyle management for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), families and businesses,” says cofounder and CEO Floyd Woodrow MBE DCM. “Our services are professional and highly efficient, while our highly experienced team has extensive and diverse backgrounds spanning the British Military, Police, Security Services, government departments, and highly trained and unique civilian operators.” Valkyrie fully understands that threats to personal security and reputation can surface in varied and unexpected ways. This can range from opportunistic street crime to targeted criminal planning and obsessive stalkers, harassment, extortion, blackmail, bribery and cyber-attacks. In addition, medical emergencies, accidents, kidnap and even natural disasters can leave you and your loved ones vulnerable. Valkyrie delivers a market-leading solution by implementing a proactive, pre-emptive and preventative risk management programme that not only protects you but everything – and, most importantly, everyone – that you hold dear, while reacting in real time to any developing situations. Valkyrie provides various security risk management services to family offices, HNWIs and businesses to ensure the integrity of information and security at home, in the office and while travelling or living abroad. Our objective is to recommend a security strategy that provides the required personal protection to enable our clients to enjoy a balanced, safe and secure lifestyle. Our specialist services include Technical Surveillance
Counter Measures (TSCM – more commonly known as ‘bug sweeping’), Investigations and Surveillance, Access Control, Household Security and Management, Chaperones, Close Protection Officers, Security Drivers, Security and Cyber Audits. In addition, Valkyrie operatives have extensive experience working in hostile and remote locations. Our TSCM or ‘bug sweep’ teams use the latest technology combined with years of practical and technical experience to identify physical listening and monitoring devices in homes, offices, vehicles and aircraft. “With a rise in domestic surveillance in the home, our skilled teams can work around you, ensuring the minimum of disruption as they go about their task, from examining a single meeting room to the whole of a private residence or office complex,” explains Woodrow. “Our work can ensure that you, your family and your business have total privacy wherever you are, and that sensitive commercial or personal details remain behind closed doors.” Our Valkyrie Cyber Concierge (VCC) Programme assists our clients, families and their data from any malicious threats designed to harm. We provide expert advice tailored to your needs and designed to make you more secure when things go wrong, as well as ongoing practical support from digital and physical compromise. You may not notice when a data breach has happened. Even if a criminal has targeted you, they might not use your data for a few days or even months. But any violation of your personal or private sensitive information can cause considerable stress – let alone reputational damage. We work with our clients to tailor the security needs for your mobile, tablet and computers; home infrastructure; social media profiles; and implementing secure comms protocols to send
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and receive sensitive information. Our surveillance operatives/private investigators are highly experienced, and all have backgrounds in law enforcement, the military and government. “Our operatives have all the skills needed to obtain intelligence to support any investigation covertly, and our teams use the latest technical surveillance methods combined with physical surveillance techniques,” says Woodrow. “They will use a target’s psychology against them to secure effective results in the quickest possible timeframe.” All surveillance operations are conducted within guidelines set out by UK law, including the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, the Data Protection Act and Human Rights Act, and privacy legislation. Our worldwide surveillance services are managed through our trusted local partners, and we ensure that all intelligence is gathered legally within the varying global evidential and privacy laws. “Valkyrie applies the latest technological advancements to enhance the effectiveness of our work. This approach enables us to drive cost efficiencies that directly benefit our clients,” says Woodrow. “We value technological innovation combined with expert strategies based on tried and tested principles that have stood the test of time. This ensures our plans are resilient in the face of any challenge. Our experienced and highly-trained personnel ensure that every step is undertaken with pride, passion and consummate skill.” Valkyrie continues to build our reputation as a market leader by delivering excellent advice to the UK and international individuals and families, private offices/professional advisors and businesses. Our performance-based reputation is built on the foundations of professionalism and absolute discretion. valkyrie.co.uk