Practice areas.
Each engagement stands on its own. The season retainer combines them. Most departments begin with the assessment and add what its report recommends; departments that already know what they require may engage any practice directly.
Eight calls on the sheet.
The assessment is call A. Each of the others has its own page, its own price, and its own questions answered.
- Afrom$18,500
Program security assessment
Five days on campus across six areas, and a report that states which of the others are warranted and which are not.
- Bfrom$5,000 / day
Coaching staff tradecraft
Keeping a game plan inside the building, in a season lived in hotels and on buses.
- Cfrom$3,000 / session
Athlete safety briefings
What a stranger can already learn about a player, and what the player should do in the first hour.
- Dfrom$4,000 / trip
Travel security advance
The hotel is the one building on the schedule the program does not control.
- Efrom$5,000 / month
Threat assessment and response
A named person who answers within the hour, and a process that begins before the second message arrives.
- Ffrom$3,000 / event
Technical surveillance countermeasures
Inspection of the rooms that matter, with a plain statement of what an inspection can establish.
- Gfrom$8,000
Leak and insider review
When something inside the building got out.
- Hadded tobriefing or retainer
Roster exposure checks
For departments that want the exposure addressed rather than only described.
What each engagement leaves behind.
Every engagement ends with a document the staff can use without the firm. These are they.
| Engagement | The staff keeps | The athletic director keeps |
|---|---|---|
| Program security assessment | A remediation schedule with owners, costs and dates. A list of the rooms that warrant inspection and the rooms that do not. | A one-page summary, the full report, and a written record that the department examined the question. |
| Staff tradecraft | The device checklist, completed and signed by each staff member. A written signal-protection plan. Five building habits, owned by operations. | The attendance record and the curriculum. |
| Athlete safety briefing | The first-hour card, one per player. A parents' edition on request. | A note of what was covered. Nothing any player said. |
| Travel security advance | The travel checklist, organized by when each item is done. The key list and the room-assignment protocol for the trip. | A one-page note after the trip: what worked, what to ask the next hotel for. |
| Threat assessment and response | A response contact and a process. The documentation for each matter, in a form campus police can use. | An after-action note after each matter, by category and severity. |
| Technical surveillance countermeasures | The observations: what to fix in the room regardless of what was or was not found. | The report, leading with the instruments used and what each cannot detect. |
| Leak and insider review | The map of how the information moved, and the remedies. | A written account of the probable paths, with no names. |
On every engagement.
- Counsel first. The department's counsel receives the engagement letter before any work begins.
- In writing. Every engagement leaves a document the staff can use without the firm.
- Limits stated. Every report records what was examined, with what, and what was not.
- The principal does the work. Partners are named in advance where a license or equipment requires one.
- Nothing recommended that is not warranted. If the report finds a sweep unnecessary, no sweep is quoted.
- Referred out. Event security, executive protection, background investigations on recruits and hires, network security, and anything that would require monitoring a department's own people. The firm knows who performs those services well and makes the introduction.
What a sweep report contains.
- Scope
Which rooms, on which date, at whose request, and the threat the inspection was designed against.
- Instruments
Every piece of equipment used, by category, and what each can and cannot detect. This is the page most firms omit.
- Findings
Anything found, photographed in place, preserved, and handed to the client contact with a chain-of-custody note. Usually this page records that nothing was found, and says so plainly.
- Observations
Matters that are not devices but bear on security: a door that does not latch, a vendor on a master key, a speakerphone that is always live.
- Recommendation
Whether the room warrants a repeat inspection, on what schedule, and whether a partner certification is worth the expense. Often it is not.
Uncertain which engagement applies? Begin with the assessment.
Its report identifies which of these the program requires, and which it does not. How the assessment is conducted.