Tour Security
By ETS Risk Management
About Us
ETS supports musicians and artists with security planning, secure transportation, personal protection, and hotel security. To facilitate a safe operating environment, we liaise closely with various stakeholders, including management, venues, hotels, clubs, restaurants, producers, and other security teams.
ETS’s management team is drawn from the former British Intelligence, UK and US Special Forces, and covert counter-terrorism communities (UK SAS, SRR, MI5). We provide a comprehensive approach to security that includes defining risks to critical assets, identifying vulnerabilities, designing security controls, and providing high-level security.
Mission
ETS works to understand a client’s itinerary, objectives, concerns, threats, and vulnerabilities. ETS works to support top artists with security planning, secure transportation, and personal security on tour. Our mission is to simplify the process for all stakeholders and stay agile to last-minute changes and incidents.
Our team can support all functions in all locations, or cover segments as required, whether transportation, security, or liaison; as well as geographic-specific services for challenging locations. ETS work to understand client’s current situation and concerns.
Our Global Services
ETS’s global security, intelligence, and incident response manage and control risks relating to security, profile, and reputation. ETS designs, implements, and provides protective services including VIP protection, secure transportation, event security, tour security, and hotel security. An emphasis is placed on pro-active threat detection, logistical support, planning, and communication.
Tour Security
ETS work to support top artists with security planning, secure transportation, and personal security on tour. We liaise closely with a range of stakeholders that cross-deck with security, including management, venues, hotels, booking agents, producers, and promoters.
How do we provide value?
Security Transportation
ETS plan, implement and manage secure transportation globally. We provide security drivers and a range of vehicles (including armored) wherever required. We manage the fleet, liaise with the talent team, and work to stay adaptable to the ever-changing itinerary. We have local networks of providers and experience operating in over 80 countries and 112 cities.
ETS is licensed in multiple States within the USA including CA, NV, TX, WA, MD, DC, VA, FL, and NM. We have a network of suppliers to support in other locations.
VIP Protection
ETS provides high-level security for music talent on tour utilizing closeprotection trained VIP security specialists with extensive experience in event security, stage management, and international liaison. ETS offers a comprehensive approach to security that includes defining risks to critical assets, identifying vulnerabilities, designing security controls, and providing tier-one-level VIP protection. We draw on our expertise and experience to offer a collaborative, best-in-class approach to protecting talent on tour. Our specialty is high-risk talent that may require low-profile and/or covert security in support of the high-profile bodyguard team.
Intelligence
Our clients are often subject to media exposure which can become intrusive. The vast majority have a significant volume of social media content discussing personal and business activities. There are also regular issues with stalkers, online harassment, trolling, and threats.
It is imperative that any protection detail is effectively supported by an intelligence framework that focuses on proactive threat detection. Our Intelligence team is drawn from the former British Intelligence and Special Forces communities adding legal investigative backgrounds and crime and fraud specialists. We have supported numerous clients through process driven, empirical and accountably obtained intelligence gathering