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Defence & security industry

The defence community faces significant challenges. Ongoing operations, severely constrained budgets and the need for radical performance improvement in acquisition and programme management are currently driving defence agendas around the world.

The threats to security that organisations face every day, for example from organised crime, terrorism, theft and industrial espionage, are well known to many. However, knowing when and how the next threat will arise are not always so well known, even to those experts in the industry.

The defence and security industry is facing its most challenging times ever; the need to combat terrorism has increased in recent years and is a constantly increasing threat. The UK Government investment in counter-terrorism and intelligence has risen from £1 billion in 2001 to £3.5 billion. Police counter-terrorism resources have also increased by over 70 per cent since 2006.

The traditional and new challenges facing the industry were recently described at the Annual Security and Defence conference at Chatham House to be:

· Traditional challenges:

The re-emergence of large power and regional rivalries; inter-state proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical technology and weapons; competition for natural and economic resources.

· New challenges:

Proliferation to non-state actors and groups; non-conventional terrorism (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear); managing failing and failed states; piracy; serious and organised crime; cyber-crime.

For business and the industry it has meant the need to address these issues at board level and as part of the business resilience and continuity strategy. Indeed, many of the key themes that will shape the UK's forthcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review, from cybersecurity and closer international collaboration to acquisition reform and a new Defence Industrial Strategy, are now also commonplace to other nations.

Our extensive experience in providing strategic board level support to global corporations has helped many of our defence and security industry clients to realise the value of having peace of mind in outsourcing their business resilience planning to Esoteric. Our clients are able to concentrate on core business activity, safe in the knowledge that the threat of attempted or actual attacks from competitors, criminals and terrorists has been minimised.

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