Executive protection (EP) is a specialized security service that is designed to safeguard corporate executives, high-profile individuals, and their families from physical harm or legal threats. EP agents are trained to provide a variety of security services, including:

• Close protection: This involves providing physical protection to the executive at all times, including when they are traveling, at work, or at home.
• Threat assessment: This involves evaluating the potential for threats to the executive and developing plans to mitigate those risks.
• Security planning: This involves developing security plans for high-risk events, such as public appearances or travel.
• Investigation: This involves investigating potential threats and conducting background checks on individuals who may pose a risk to the executive.

An Executive Protection (EP) Program can range from being pretty simple to extremely grand in scope. A highly effective Program is most commonly executed using three (3) strategies, each geared at proactively protecting high networth individuals. Every strategy has a separate function and is deployed in concert with the others to identify and mitigate risk.

Bodyguarding is the most popular role in the close protection space, it does however differ from Executive Protection in a pretty significant way. Put briefly, the primary difference is two words; Proactive vs Reactive.

 Executive Protection (EP) is a proactive risk mitigation method with the core purpose of providing solutions for concerns involving risk, threat, access, confidentiality, and logistics. Bodyguards are known for only reactively responding to unwanted intrusions on their clients.