SAKOM provides expertise in the field of security risk assessment and management. Our depth of talent includes experienced individuals who have been active at work for the past 12 years in what has become the private security company sector, working in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, our private military contractors are experts in their field through qualification as well as experience. We pride ourselves on utilizing either former law enforcement or former military personnel from respected backgrounds.

In Afghanistan, the regulatory environment places stringent controls on security risk management companies which require additional talents and skill sets for security managers to utilize using tact, cultural awareness and diplomacy. Our private military contractors and consultants recognize this and make sure that interaction with government departments such as police and intelligence agencies ensures confrontation is minimized, and clients are able to go about their core business without delay. In addition, there is a prescribed role of security risk management consultants to train and mentor local security staff assigned through the Afghanistan Public Protection Force (APPF), which forms part of the security risk management and assessment to support clients wishing to conduct business in Afghanistan.

Within Iraq, such skills are also required and with the current sensitive situation in Iraq owing to political uncertainty. These requirements for private military contractors are ever more important.

Our approach to security risk assessment and management can be summed up as follows:

• Client-focused with a view to the completion of the client task, whilst working within client acceptable risk tolerances.
• The use of formal security risk assessment tools to mitigate risk.
• The use of verifiable open source threat management information. This enables the client to understand the security risk also and understand the reason for a risk mitigation strategy.
• The use of experienced security personnel able to manage client expectations and concerns.
• The ability to use qualified security personnel to meet client audit requirements which may exist from either a donor or simply a client formal minimum standard.
• The use of local in-country partners to provide additional value to our own corporate business approach and liability.