The mind behind the mission!

The responsibility of a security consultant firm is about risk management, liability reduction, and operational resilience. Most individuals and organizations don’t have the time, expertise, or objectivity to properly identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities across physical, procedural, and human domains.  Hiring a security consultant is a proactive decision to identify vulnerabilities, reduce risk exposure, and protect people, assets, and reputation. It shifts security from a reactive cost center into a strategic function that supports continuity and stability.

Hiring a security consultant before a security company is about getting the strategy right before you spend money on manpower and equipment. Otherwise, you risk building a security program that looks good on paper but doesn’t actually mitigate your real threats.

If you hire a security company first, you’re buying services. If you hire a security consultant first, you’re buying a strategy that ensures those services are actually effective.

Many (not all) security companies are not working within the boundaries of the law.  These laws are in place to protect those clients who are hiring these companies.  At Lathrop International, we prevent you from hiring the wrong company and ensure the company you do hire is licensed, bonded, and insured.  Hiring the wrong company may cause more problems for you in the long run.

Operating a security company without a license or outside the scope of that license is a serious issue with legal, financial, and safety consequences. This is exactly where a security consultant adds value.  They identify non-compliance risks before they turn into liability.

Hiring an unlicensed or non-compliant security company isn’t just a vendor issue, it becomes your liability problem the moment something goes wrong.  A security consultant ensures that any security provider you engage is legitimate, properly qualified, legally compliant, and aligned with your actual risk profile.

At Lathrop International, we guide startups with the proper steps to ensure the protection of their intellectual property and the safety of their personnel. Startups operate in a uniquely exposed environment with limited resources, rapid scaling, and often high visibility (especially in tech, finance, or public-facing brands). Security consulting at this stage is less about heavy infrastructure and more about building a scalable, risk-aligned foundation early.  For startups, security consulting is about doing the right things early without overbuilding. It creates a lean, intelligent security posture that protects people and assets, supports growth and investor confidence, and avoids costly mistakes later.