Geopolitical Risk Consulting

Identify Threats, Mitigate Risks, and Discover Opportunities

VerSprite Geopolitical Risk helps clients formulate a Geo-Cyber Strategy. As businesses confront their growing exposure to interrelated issues at the nexus of information security and geopolitics, mass market reports are not enough. At VerSprite, we tailor our solutions to each client’s unique needs. The VerSprite team determines risk posture with regard to how geopolitical macro risks can materialize as palpable threats. Our holistic approach considers business impact from political, socioeconomic, regulatory and cultural factors, especially as drivers of information security challenges.

VerSprite’s global network of subject matter experts serve a range of sectors including technology, retail, hospitality & tourism, education, telecommunications, healthcare & pharma, manufacturing, and the extractive industries. In mitigating risks to reputation, operations, and prospects for growth in markets abroad, it’s vital for organizations to have a trusted partner in helping them assess and remediate their exposure, analyze decisions, and simulate the consequences of likely future scenarios. Read GPR Content →

Advisory Services

VerSprite Geo-Cyber advisory services provide clients with highly customized and comprehensive findings presented in a report and delivered in an interactive briefing. Analysis is based on the scope and positioning of global presence, including physical and human assets, corporate cyber footprint, and other dependencies around domestic and foreign socioeconomic and political forces. VerSprite provides a variety of specialized services to help businesses conduct thorough due diligence, vet vendors and partners, prepare for expansion, and assess the effectiveness of current or planned strategies.

Interactive Simulation Experiences

The deployment of an incident response team has been linked to a 10% cost reduction per record compromised in a data breach, according to an IBM Study on the Hidden Costs of Data Breaches.

Assembling an Incident Response team is a good first step, however deploying an effective Incident Response team requires putting its plans to the test in a variety of situations. VerSprite designs and facilitates tabletop exercises that serve to stress-test your organization on mitigation strategies and assess your ability to address threats stemming from geopolitical causal factors, as well as analyze complex questions, and train teams to follow more effective practices.

Following a review of a company’s risk exposure and current corporate processes, our experts gather and perform a hypothetical situation exercise featuring various scenarios built on historical or anticipated events. The goal is to prepare for potential threats that could carry financial, operational or reputational damages, or uncover opportunities to grow the business. Interactive simulations give every team within a company a chance to weigh in on complex decisions to create cohesive, and thereby more successful, strategies.

After the hypothetical scenarios and tabletop exercises, VerSprite provides clients with a summary report, and security experts provide recommended actions based on the company’s performance, root-cause analysis, and conclusions made during tabletop simulations.