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Hire Private Security

The operators worth hiring find us by reputation, and the clients who cannot afford a mistake come to us to find them, which is how the right people and the right work meet here. We source and vet the professionals, examine the firms, and make the introductions that hold up across personal protection, executive protection, corporate security, and government contract work.

What we do

How we source and vet

We source and vet the elite of this industry. Our reputation rests on it.

Candidate sourcing and background vetting

The candidates in our pool are former special operations, combat arms, and combat veterans. We confirm their backgrounds are real, not just on paper: service records, licenses, and certifications checked against what a candidate claims.

Peer review

Elite units select their own by peer review. We do the same. Not the references a candidate hands us: the people who actually worked with them, on the kind of assignments they claim. Every community in this industry, however specialized or secretive, is inside our reach.

Our interview

On a direct hire, nobody reaches your shortlist without it. We interview against the position and against the concerns you bring us, and employers usually bring some. Some candidates clear everything above and are still not the right fit for a particular role.

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Contract Staffing

Staffing a Contract or Task Order

Use this when you hold the contract and need cleared, experienced people on it for the length of the work.

Candidates sourced and vetted for a defined contract or task order, one role or a full team. We also build staffing plans, or assist with yours, for proposals and RFP responses.

Cleared, experienced professionals with special operations at the core, engaged as 1099 independent contractors to your firm for the length of the task order. We source against the task order and vet through our peer network to the credentials and experience the contract specifies, with service history confirmed.

Direct Hire

Hiring a Security Professional Onto Your Own Team

Use this when the person works for you: your payroll, your chain of command, your team.

A security professional placed onto your own payroll.

You own the relationship here, so the person matters more than the coverage, and this is the model we spend the most time on before a name ever reaches you.

The people we source are mostly US military, combat arms and special operations. This is the engagement that runs all three stages above at full depth: the record confirmed against DD-214s, service records, licenses and certifications, peer review by people who have done the work, and our interview before anyone reaches your shortlist.

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Security Needs Assessment

Tell us what you're protecting

Whether you're still in the planning phase or need elite operators anywhere in the world, we can help you with our security needs assessment and figure out what you need.

Managed Protection Services

Have a private security firm run the entire security program for you.

Running a detail in-house is a management job in itself. It is a specialized skill set you may never have managed before, and it carries the ordinary problems of any team: personalities that do not fit, turnover, illness, and coverage that still has to hold on the days people are out.

The bigger cost is quieter. When the detail sits inside your own culture and politics, the team starts aligning to the organization rather than to what keeps the principal safe, and the security value drains out of it.

Security is the one role you cannot afford to have go wrong.

If you would rather keep the capability on your own team, we can help you staff it directly.

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Security companies who desire to join our network and receive client referrals must successfully pass our strict vetting standards. Apply HERE.
From the people who source and vet this industry

Types of Private Security Services

Select a category below and learn more about different types of private security service professionals for your particular needs.

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Personal Security

For ultra-high-net-worth individuals, executives, and their families who need protection at home, in transit, and in high-threat environments abroad.

Executive Protection

Protective Services for High Net Worth Clients and Executives Worldwide

Executive protection services pair elite security operators (typically U.S. special operations veterans and former federal agents with extensive private sector security experience) with clients requiring discreet, high-level personal security. These close protection teams are experienced in safeguarding ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs), corporate executives, dignitaries, and family members during both routine travel and high-threat scenarios.

Whether traveling domestically or operating in high-risk international environments, skilled EP teams provide route reconnaissance, secure ground transport, residential security, and threat monitoring for every detail of your itinerary. This is a white-glove, low-visibility protection solution trusted by Fortune 500 families and private clients alike.

Kidnap Prevention

Preventive Security Measures in High-Risk Kidnapping Zones

Kidnap prevention services are specifically designed for UHNW individuals and families traveling or living in known kidnapping hotspots such as Mexico, Central America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Each protection detail is typically led by former Tier 1 SOF or former federal law enforcement agents who specialize in kidnap risk mitigation, pattern of life disruption, and surveillance detection. These are preemptive protective teams-not reactive ones— and are trained to reduce exposure, reroute travel plans, and coordinate local assets for rapid response if necessary.

Kidnap prevention services are also implemented as protective support during ransom negotiations, high-profile custody disputes, or travel into unstable areas.

Hostage Rescue

Rapid Deployment Rescue Teams for Kidnapping and Human Trafficking

When time is critical and lives are at stake, private hostage rescue operators deliver high-speed, precision action for clients facing imminent or ongoing threats — such as abduction, hostage takings, or human trafficking incidents.

Private hostage rescue teams are highly specialized operators comprised of former Tier 1 special operators with combat-tested rescue capabilities, local knowledge, and intelligence support teams who can coordinate with foreign governments when applicable.

These operations are non-standard and non-permissive and require competent operators who have experience receiving little to no external support to accomplish their mission.

If you're dealing with an active situation, send an urgent request.

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Corporate Security

For companies and the executives, board members, and public figures who lead them: protection and embedded security leadership at headquarters, on corporate travel, and wherever risk reaches the organization.

Executive Security Detail

High-Profile Protection for Business Leaders and C-Suite Executives

Executive security details offer customized protective services for business executives, board members, and influential public figures requiring a low-visibility, high-readiness security posture. Whether it's daily residential security, corporate travel abroad, or event-specific protection, competent executive security operators are typically drawn from elite military and federal agency backgrounds with extensive private-sector experience.

Depending on the client's risk profile and operational footprint, the right executive security detail may range from a single-agent embed to a full protection team.

Operational Security

Security Leadership and Embedded Advisors for Corporate Resilience

Operational security advisors fill leadership roles including Directors of Security, Chief Security Officers (CSO), or regional security leads—either as contract positions or embedded consultants. These professionals bring decades of experience in standing up protective programs, managing threats across multiple geographies, and coordinating private security infrastructure across verticals like energy, tech, finance, and manufacturing.

They often act as internal force multipliers—ensuring security best practices, travel protocols, executive safety, and global site protection are implemented effectively.

Professional Security Consultants

Strategic Risk Advisors for Enterprise Security Planning and Deployment

Professional security consultants are senior-level experts who provide corporate risk assessments, crisis response planning, and security infrastructure design for global enterprises. They've led guard force deployments, established SOPs, and advised C-suite stakeholders on critical threat response—from insider threat mitigation to supply chain risk.

These professionals often assist with audits, force structuring, and post-incident analysis for clients navigating high-threat industries or emerging market operations.

Private Investigations

Surveillance, Evidence Collection, and Intelligence Gathering

Private investigators and surveillance professionals provide discreet intelligence support for both domestic and international cases. Whether it's tracking corporate espionage, stolen assets, or internal threats—competent surveillance teams combine digital forensics, HUMINT sources, and physical surveillance to deliver court-admissible evidence.

Highly skilled private investigators and surveillance agents specialize in complex investigations involving foreign jurisdictions, hostile actors, or hidden assets. These are not average detective operations—advanced investigative teams are drawn from the U.S. intelligence community, elite law enforcement, and special operations forces.

Security Risk Assessment

Threat Assessments and Penetration Testing for Physical and Digital Vulnerabilities

Security risk assessment teams conduct Risk Threat Vulnerability Assessments (RTVAs) and Penetration Testing (red-teaming) against both physical security infrastructure and cyber attack vectors. These teams identify exploitable gaps, map attack surfaces, and test real-world response protocols across facilities, networks, and executive targets.

This is a vital part of any corporate security risk management program, especially for clients operating in regulated or hostile environments.

Event Security

Armed or Covert Protection for Corporate Events and High-Profile Venues

Event security teams include licensed close protection specialists trained to secure high-traffic venues such as private summits, concerts, shareholder meetings, sports venues, and international expos. Adequately securing an event requires both a visible deterrent presence and covert counter-surveillance agents, ensuring layered defense for VIPs, talent, and infrastructure. Services for events are built to be scalable—from single-day events to month-long deployments.

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Government / Private Military

For prime contractors, subcontractors, and allied programs that staff security and specialist billets on U.S. government contracts, in the United States and abroad.

Personal Security Detail (PSS/PSD)

Protective Security Specialists for Diplomatic, Military, and Government Missions

We source Personal Security Specialists (PSS/PSD) to support U.S. and allied government operations worldwide: deployable AICs, Shift Leads, DDMs, CAT Team Members, and Advance Team Leads with experience supporting Ambassadors, Defense Attachés, and high-ranking officials.

Other Security Operations

Specialized Security Teams for Mission-Critical Government Contracts

We source maritime security, armed and unarmed static security, EOD technicians, K9 handlers, and construction surveillance technicians for specialized government contract requirements.

Combat Medics

Licensed Medical Professionals for Deployed and High-Threat Environments

We source experienced combat medics who provide critical medical support in austere environments and augment security details in high-threat settings. Our network includes paramedics, surgeons, trauma physicians, physician's assistants, veterinarians, and registered nurses with field deployment experience.

Pilots / Aviators

Experienced Fixed-Wing and Rotary Pilots for Government Operations

We source fixed-wing and rotary pilots for mission support, ISR, medevac, and secure transport across multiple airframes and theaters.

Intel Support

Intelligence Professionals Across the IC Disciplines

We source intelligence professionals across HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and cyber. Candidates report their clearance levels (TS/SCI and above) and mission expertise, and we vet against what a role requires.

We support intel staffing requests only for U.S. Intelligence Community-approved organizations.

Cyber Security

Cyber Professionals for Classified and Enterprise Networks

We source cyber professionals experienced in network hardening, digital forensics, red-teaming, malware analysis, and incident response for classified and enterprise networks. Candidates report their clearance levels, and we vet against what a role requires.

We support cyber staffing requests only for U.S. Government and U.S. business entities.

FAQ

Common questions

What does Silent Professionals actually do?
We source and vet the professionals of the private security industry, and connect you with the right people, or the right firm. We staff directly for contract task orders and direct hires, and for managed protection we recommend a vetted provider. We are not an operational security company ourselves; the protection is delivered by the people you hire or the firm we recommend.
What's the difference between contract staffing and direct hire?
Contract staffing sources and vets candidates for a defined contract or task order, one role or a full team, and we also build staffing plans, or assist with yours, for proposals and RFP responses. Direct hire places a security professional onto your own payroll. Both draw from the same sourced-and-vetted pool.
How do you evaluate and recommend a provider?
We hold every firm to the same vetting standard we hold our people to, and recommend only the ones we would put our own name behind. For managed protection, that's Hyperion Services.
How do you source and vet personnel?
It depends on how you engage us, and the three are genuinely different. Each engagement model above states exactly what we do for it, and direct hire carries the full three-stage vet. On clearances, we ask what a role requires and what a candidate holds; we do not operate government validation systems.
Do you provide the security service yourselves?
No. Silent Professionals sources, vets, and connects. The protective service is delivered by the professionals you hire or the firm we recommend, never by us.