Talos
TALOS SERVICES GROUP
Global Reach · Intelligence · Response
GSOC · Operational
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Watchtower · Live ingest
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Guardian · 93% validation
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Active theaters · 3
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Posture · Standby, worldwide
Talos Services Group — Miami, Florida · Worldwide

Risk is a discipline.
Not a reaction.

We deliver protection, consultation, and crisis response for organizations operating where stakes are highest. Our engagements are underwritten by two products we built for ourselves first: the Guardian intelligence platform and the Watchtower risk console. When the environment shifts, we know — and we move.

DisciplinesThree
Capability LinesTwelve
Countries Operated27
Years Combined Experience80+
01 · What we do — Three interlocking disciplines

A single firm. Three practice areas. Built to operate together.

Protection is the force. Consultation is the judgment. Crisis Response is the follow-through when the environment has already broken. Clients retain us because the three are under one roof, run by the same leadership, informed by the same intelligence stream.

Discipline 01

Protection

Executive · Asset · Facility

High-signal protective operations for principals, families, and installations. Built around discipline, discretion, and quiet professionalism — not theatrics.

  • Executive protection
  • Asset & facility security
  • Travel advance & risk
  • Residential programs
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Discipline 02

Consultation

Advisory · Assessment · Program Design

The advisory layer clients rely on when the problem is complex, the decision is high-stakes, and a packaged answer won't hold. We assess, design, and hand the program over to the operator or run it ourselves.

  • Risk & threat assessments
  • Security program design
  • Crisis & incident advisory
  • Training & capability build
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Discipline 03

Crisis Response & Evacuation

Evacuation · Recovery · Continuity

When the environment has already deteriorated — political upheaval, natural disaster, hostile actors, infrastructure collapse — we deploy. Evacuation, crisis operations, and recovery, with the standing presence to make it happen.

  • Evacuation planning & execution
  • Kidnap for ransom response
  • Crisis management ops
  • Post-incident recovery
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02 · Technology — The Guardian platform

The operating system for every TSG engagement.

Guardian is our AI-decisioned intelligence platform: 247 feeds normalized into one operational picture, Cortex triage at 217 millisecond median latency, and a policy layer that automates what should be automatic so operators can spend attention where judgment matters.

217ms
Cortex median latency
247
Integrated feeds
+93%
Validated precision
94
Countries supported
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Guardian Console · Live Theater · Worldwide
P0
Facility breach attempt · KirkukCortex triage complete · dispatch held pending operator ack
00:07
P1
Travel route change · BogotáAlternate corridor cleared; principal ETA 23:40
00:23
P2
Credential anomaly · Abuja opsFalse positive · dismissed after biometric re-check
00:44
P3
Environmental advisory · ManilaRainfall projections flagged for 72h window
01:12
P2
Sanctions delta · OFAC updateTwo new designations · supply chain filter refreshed
01:38
Queue depth 4
Auto-resolved 24h 1,247
Human ack required 18
03 · Risk intelligence — Watchtower
Watchtower · Public Preview Live ingest · 1,240/min
N 75° S 60° 180° E 180° W EQUATOR
Low
Moderate
High
Critical
40 countries · refreshing

Public-facing. Analyst-grade.

Watchtower is the public module of Guardian — a continuously running OSINT console covering every country in the world. Each item carries its source tier and credibility weight. Every score is reproducible back to its inputs. Aggregated ADS-B and AIS give you theater-level movement context without the surveillance surface.

13,247
Public sources ingested
<4 min
Median ingest → publish
47
Hallucination flags / week
T1–T4
Explicit credibility tiers
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04 · Capabilities — Twelve practice lines

The twelve things we do for a living.

Each capability is delivered by a named practice lead, supported by the same GSOC, the same Guardian instance, and the same standards. Click through to the capability statement.

Executive Protection

Low-profile protective details for principals, families, and visiting senior leadership.

Asset & Facility Security

Site hardening, posture design, access control, and continuous auditing.

Travel Advance

Route and venue advance, local vetting, secure movement planning.

Residential Programs

Layered residential security architecture, staffing, and embedded response.

Risk & Threat Assessments

Structured assessments across physical, digital, and personnel threat surfaces.

Program Design

Security program architecture from first principles — structure, cadence, governance.

Crisis Advisory

Senior advisory during live incidents — triage, communication, recovery posture.

Training & Capability Build

Tiered curriculum from individual awareness through team-level crisis exercises.

Evacuation Planning

Pre-built evacuation routing with live Watchtower monitoring and on-call activation.

Kidnap for Ransom Response

Named-lead crisis response with established in-country liaison and recovery protocols.

Crisis Operations

Live crisis management with operational control when clients need it transferred.

Post-Incident Recovery

Continuity planning, environmental re-assessment, posture rebuild after an incident.

05 · Mission record — Selected, sanitized

The work speaks for itself.

Client names and identifying detail are withheld by default. Where operations are public, we'll discuss them. Where they're not, outcomes are described in aggregate.

Evacuation

Family relocation from a deteriorating capital · 14-hour activation

Executive family extracted during a coordinated political crisis. Advance routing, dual-corridor execution, and continued residential protection on arrival.

Region MENA
Duration 11 days
Protection

Standing protective detail · Fortune 100 principal

Multi-year protective retainer with integrated residential program, travel advance, and a quiet EP posture optimized for visibility containment.

Theater US · EU
Posture Standing
Crisis Response

Facility takeover & crisis response · manufacturing complex

Hostile occupation of a client facility resolved through negotiation support, security re-posture, and on-site embed for the following 90 days.

Region LATAM
Outcome Resumed ops
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06 · Leadership — Named. Accountable.

Clients buy people. These are ours.

TSG is run by operators, not by a holding company. Each discipline has a named lead with decades of direct experience and the authority to make decisions without committee.

DR

David Ramirez

Managing Director

Former federal law enforcement, corporate security executive, and crisis response lead. Career spanning protective operations, investigations, and organizational build-out across three continents.

JN

John Nettles

Director · Protection Practice

Career protective operations specialist with a deep bench in executive protection, residential program design, and training of host-nation protective staff.

JF

J.F.

Director · Crisis Response Practice

Crisis response and evacuation specialist with extensive deployment experience across high-risk jurisdictions, organizing ground-truth operations where others can't get there.

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