Protective Security
When Your Operations Matter to Sweden’s National Security
Protective security is about safeguarding activities of importance to Sweden’s national security against espionage, sabotage, terrorism and other hostile threats.
At HiQ, we help you identify what needs to be protected, understand the requirements and relevant threat actors, and translate that understanding into the right protective security measures.
Protective security that works in practice – not just on paper.
Why Protective Security – and Why Now?
The threat landscape facing security-sensitive activities is more complex than ever. It is not only about technology, but equally about people, processes and physical environments.
With the right protective security measures in place, you can:
- Gain a clear understanding of your critical assets, vulnerabilities and risks
- Reduce the risk of serious incidents and operational disruption
- Meet the requirements of the Swedish Protective Security Act in a structured way
- Create greater security and confidence for employees, customers and partners
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A protective security analysis is the starting point for a structured approach to protective security. We help you identify what needs to be protected, what it needs to be protected against, and which protective security measures are required.
We help you with:
– Identifying and assessing critical assets and security interests
– Assessing relevant hostile threats
– Identifying vulnerabilities
– Developing and prioritising protective security measures
– Documentation and support for ongoing protective security work
We help you identify and protect information that is critical to security-sensitive activities – across systems, documents and human handling.
We help you with:
– Identifying and managing information requiring protection
– Information classification, governance and procedures
– Designing and implementing technical environments for handling security-sensitive information
– Practical measures to strengthen protection across the IT environment
Personnel security is about ensuring that individuals involved in security-sensitive activities are considered trustworthy from a security perspective and have sufficient knowledge and awareness of protective security.
We help you with:
– Security vetting – from background checks and security vetting interviews to ongoing follow-up
– Personnel investigations
– Establishing and developing personnel security functions
– Advanced training in interviewing and conversation techniques
– Support for organisations and protective security specialists
Physical security is about protecting security-sensitive activities against unauthorised access, sabotage and other physical threats. We help you assess your security needs, define the right requirements and translate them into effective physical protection.
We help you with:
– Analysing and designing physical protective security
– Protecting premises, facilities and sensitive areas
– Defining requirements for physical protective security measures
– Project management and implementation support for physical security measures
Specialist Services – For Complex Security Challenges
At HiQ National Security, we combine specialist security expertise with an intelligence-led approach. By applying reverse targeting, we adopt the adversary’s perspective and work from the outside in – from understanding what an actor is trying to achieve to identifying how they could attempt to reach the organisation’s critical assets.
We also have specialist expertise in Insider Risk Management, helping organisations understand, prevent and manage insider threats.
We assess your organisation from an adversary’s perspective. Through reverse targeting, we identify how a hostile actor could attempt to reach your critical assets – through technical, physical or human attack paths – and where existing safeguards may fail.
We help you with:
– Reverse targeting and adversary-focused analysis
– Identifying potential attack paths
– Validating existing protective measures
– Technical and physical penetration testing
– Actionable recommendations to strengthen protection
Every organisation has information, assets and operations it needs to protect. Insider Risk Management is about understanding and managing the risks that arise when people have access to what matters most to the organisation – while creating safeguards that protect both the organisation and its people.
We help you with:
– Training and awareness around insider threats
– Preventing, detecting and managing insider threats
– Assessing organisational exposure and vulnerabilities
– Developing processes and ways of working for Insider Risk Management
– Establishing and developing Insider Risk Management programmes