Evidence-led
security advice.
Our research keeps our practice current and our advice defensible. We build proprietary databases calibrated to Australian contexts, draw from PhD research, and contribute to the evidence base of contemporary security — so every assessment reflects rigorous, current knowledge rather than inherited convention.
Active research programmes
These aren't theoretical exercises. Each programme directly supports the quality of the threat assessments, risk analyses, and design inputs we deliver.
Vehicle as a Weapon
A global dataset of 121 VAAW incidents (2010–2024), examined for what vehicles are actually used, how barriers fail, and what drives casualty outcomes. The findings challenge several foundational assumptions in HVM practice. Published in Crime Science.
Explore →Security 2030
A targeted survey of 17 senior security leaders examines the gap between institutional threat awareness and organisational readiness for 2030. Threat recognition is outpacing adaptation — coordination failure, not technology, is the dominant obstacle.
Explore →Protective Placemaking
Security applied as an afterthought creates intrusive, exclusionary environments. This programme examines how protective measures — integrated from the earliest design stages — can produce public spaces that are both resilient and genuinely inviting.
Explore →The State of CPTED in NSW
CPTED is referenced across NSW planning instruments, yet the quality and consistency of its application varies widely. This programme maps current practice, identifies where it has become a compliance exercise rather than a design input, and examines what would raise the standard.
Explore →Security Culture
Most security failures originate in people and process, not technology. This programme examines what constitutes a mature security culture, how it can be measured without reducing it to a checklist, and what practical steps organisations can take to develop it.
Explore →Security Talent & Emerging Professionals
The protective security sector draws from planners, engineers, lawyers, designers, and social scientists — yet most graduates from these disciplines never learn the profession exists. This research studies how the next generation finds its way in, and what the sector needs to do to attract it.
Explore →See how research-led advisory changes the quality of security decisions
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