Intelligence Consulting Services

Strategic Guidance in Intelligence, Investigations, and Online Risk

The Risk Landscape Has Outgrown Legacy Security

Corporate risk is expanding faster than traditional security organizations can effectively monitor it. Executive travel risk, activist and geopolitical threats, supply chain vulnerabilities, brand and reputation attacks, and high-value intellectual property exposure all demand continuous visibility. Yet many organizations still operate with a legacy “guns, gates, and guards” mindset, supplemented by a reactive intelligence function that often relies on a single analyst to handle monitoring, investigations, and executive protection. When that person is overloaded, out of office, or leaves the organization, the resulting coverage gap becomes the company’s risk.

Knowing what already happened is no longer enough. Organizations are expected to understand what is developing, what is likely, what matters most, and to answer those questions right now.

At Hetherington Group, our intelligence consulting services are built on for almost three decades of trusted investigative and intelligence experience. We partner with corporations, professional services firms, and government entities to advise on governance and legal challenges, build internal capabilities, and develop proactive risk mitigation management strategies.

Our Intelligence Consulting Services Also Provide: Services

Litigation support
Expert witness testimony
Online privacy
Attorney and legal counsel support
Threat mitigation
Prepared legal briefs and data validation

Whether integrating open-source intelligence into existing operations, responding to a digital threat, or building a due diligence framework, HG’s subject matter experts bring precision, discretion, and clarity to every engagement.

A Protective Intelligence Capability,
Delivered as One Service

HG embeds a dedicated, mid-senior intelligence professional directly into your security and intelligence function, backed by dozens of proprietary monitoring, threat-detection, and OSINT investigation platforms already built, operational, and proven across industries. This is not a software subscription, and it is not a staffing placement. It is a fully resourced protective intelligence consulting capability delivered as one continuous service.

Our Intelligence Consulting Services

Every engagement is scoped to your investigative or intelligence needs. We work alongside your team on the risk and digital exposure problems you are dealing with right now.

Digital Protection

Reducing what an adversary can find and watching what they do with it. Our Digital Protection work combines digital vulnerability assessments, ongoing risk monitoring, and the protective intelligence consulting functions that sit between them.

Executive, board, and family digital vulnerability assessments, with prioritized remediation
Organizational digital footprint reviews, including employees, facilities, and vendors
PII removal, data broker suppression, and ongoing re-exposure monitoring
Continuous risk monitoring for threats, doxxing, harassment, insider concerns, and threat-actor chatter
Pre-travel and event threat assessments supporting executive protection teams
Threat actor identification, attribution research, and escalation assessments
Persons-of-interest workups and behavioral escalation indicators for threat management teams
Standing up or strengthening in-house investigations, intelligence, and threat-management functions
Protocol and tradecraft development for OSINT, SOCMINT, and cyber investigations
Intelligence technology review, tool selection, and platform recommendations
Data protection policies, PII reduction standards, and internal escalation procedures

Due Diligence, Vetting & Background Checks

Knowing who you are dealing with before the meeting, the money, or the signature. We design due diligence programs, run FCRA-compliant pre-employment background checks, and handle the vetting your team does not have the time or reach to complete.

Scalable due diligence programs your team can run consistently
FCRA-compliant pre-employment background checks, including disclosure, authorization, and adverse action workflow support
Screening program design that clarifies where FCRA-regulated checks apply and where enhanced due diligence takes over
Vendor, supplier, and third-party vetting, including subcontractors and downstream partners
Partner, investor, and joint venture background research ahead of a deal
Pre-meeting vetting of individuals scheduled to meet executives, board members, and public-facing personalities
Verification of claimed credentials, employment history, licenses, and corporate ownership
Domestic and international vetting practices, including jurisdictional and language considerations
FCPA, OFAC, and sanctions screening support
Executive and pre-appointment reputational research for senior hires and board candidates
Risk scoring models, red-flag thresholds, and investigative report structuring
Periodic re-vetting and monitoring of high-risk relationships

Two different lanes, on purpose. Our pre-employment background checks are FCRA-compliant and built for hiring decisions. Our due diligence and vetting work is intelligence consulting research for business decisions — partners, vendors, deals, and meeting security — and is not a consumer report or a substitute for one. We will tell you which one your situation calls for, and often it is both.

Online Brand & IP Protection

Protecting the name, the product, and the revenue attached to both.

Counterfeit and gray-market detection, with response coordination
Intellectual property enforcement readiness and evidence preservation
Brand impersonation, fraudulent domain, and fake account identification
Reputation and narrative monitoring programs, including coordinated activity
Digital threat actor mapping across surface, social, deep, and dark web sources
Executive and brand impersonation response playbooks

Training & Capability Development

Building the skills so your team can carry the work forward.

OSINT and investigative training needs assessments
Curriculum design and internal knowledge transfer
Program implementation for security, legal, HR, audit, compliance, and investigative teams
Analyst mentoring, quality review, and tradecraft coaching
Executive and board briefings on the current online threat landscape