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Corporate intelligence services for small and medium sized companies
Corporate intelligence services from Battle Tested Solutions help small and medium sized companies create their own intelligence collection and analysis process, so leadership sees what is coming before it arrives. The work covers protective intelligence, industrial espionage prevention and travel risk security.
Greg Schneider, CPPFounder, Battle Tested Solutions. Author of Intelligence Planning for Security Professionals
What are corporate intelligence services?
Corporate intelligence services help a company build its own process for collecting information about threats and analyzing it, instead of reacting after something happens. Greg helps small and medium sized companies set up that process for themselves.
Three areas of corporate intelligence work
- Protective intelligence: knowing which threats could reach your people and your executives
- Industrial espionage prevention: protecting proprietary information from people who want it
- Travel risk security: knowing the risks before staff travel
Greg presenting "Terrorist Motivations and Counter Measures" at an International Research Networks event, October 16, 2015.
When companies call Greg for corporate intelligence
Most calls start with one of four problems:
- Threats against the organization: hate mail by post or email, hateful social media posts aimed at its reputation, vandalism or other disruption
- An executive targeted by a known person: leadership asks for an intelligence package on that person of interest
- Outmaneuvered by competitors: the company wants a competitive corporate intelligence program of its own
- Leaks: internal security measures were compromised, and the flow and sharing of information has to be locked down further
How Greg builds a corporate intelligence program
Greg defines intelligence as time based, critical information a stakeholder needs to make a decision or take an action. Each program answers who, what, where, why, how and when, and follows the intelligence cycle:
- Intelligence requirements: the questions leadership needs answered
- Collection methods: how the information is gathered
- Analysis: what the information means for the company
- Intelligence estimate: the written finding
- Dissemination: delivering it to the stakeholders who act on it
Intelligence management services
Intelligence program development, protective intelligence services, industrial espionage protection and geopolitical risk analysis.
Example: threats against a biotech company
Members of an extremist group protesting the use of animals in research for potential cancer treatments made threats against a biotech company. Greg's work identified the individuals, exposed their cell and found they were not capable of carrying out violent threats. The company raised its security posture as a result.
Greg wrote the book on intelligence planning
Greg is the author of Intelligence Planning for Security Professionals: How to Use the Intelligence Process to Protect and Grow, published in 2017. In 2009 he wrote "Understanding Intelligence Management," Parts 1 and 2, for the SF Bay Area ASIS Chapter newsletter, on the intelligence planning cycle with case studies.
His intelligence work started at The George Washington University, where he was a research intern in intelligence analysis for Professor Yonah Alexander. He sorted terrorism reports from around the world by group, sponsor, methods and funding. From 2009 to 2016 he taught anti-terrorism, intelligence operations, and kidnapping and hostage recovery as an adjunct instructor at Henley-Putnam University.
Corporate intelligence from a member of OSAC, InfraGard and ATAP
Greg is a member of:
- Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC)
- InfraGard
- Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)
- ASIS International
Related services
A comprehensive security risk assessment includes a threat assessment for your company. Staff who travel abroad can start with the free travel security checklist, and executives can get executive protection support and travel security planning.
Who corporate intelligence services are for
Battle Tested Solutions has offered corporate intelligence services since 2009, alongside security consulting and tactical response training. It serves small and medium sized companies that do not have an intelligence team of their own and want leadership to see threats early. Greg has served schools, places of worship, universities, municipalities, nonprofits, high net worth families and companies across Northern California and abroad.
Read more about Greg Schneider's background, or see all Battle Tested Solutions services.
Ask Greg a security question
Not sure where to start? Send a short note about what you are protecting. Greg reads every message himself.
Prefer to talk? Call Greg at (650) 235-5459 or book a free 15-minute call.
Corporate intelligence services questions
What problems do corporate intelligence services solve?
Threats against an organization (hate mail, hateful social media posts, vandalism), an executive targeted by a known person, being outmaneuvered by competitors, and information leaks.
How does Greg build an intelligence program?
He follows the intelligence cycle: intelligence requirements, collection methods, analysis, an intelligence estimate, then dissemination to the stakeholders who act on it.
What do corporate intelligence services include?
Protective intelligence, industrial espionage prevention and travel risk security, built around your company's own intelligence collection and analysis process.
Who are corporate intelligence services for?
Small and medium sized companies that want their own intelligence collecting and analysis process.
Has Greg written about intelligence planning?
Yes. He wrote Intelligence Planning for Security Professionals (2017) and the two-part article "Understanding Intelligence Management" (2009).
Where did Greg learn intelligence analysis?
At The George Washington University, as a research intern in intelligence analysis for Professor Yonah Alexander. He later taught intelligence operations at Henley-Putnam University from 2009 to 2016.
Does Greg work outside California?
Yes. Battle Tested Solutions is based in Santa Clara, California, and Greg works anywhere in the United States and abroad.