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By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie During a TSCM/cyber tasking on a residential premises last week the client spoke to our telecoms engineer about a role out of new telephone systems in their new London offices. Our engineer explained that when having sensitive business conversations, sharing confidential financial information or […]

Recently VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED were advising a client involved in a dispute with a neighbour over parking rights and property boundaries. It had become quite nasty with various tactics being used by the neighbour towards our client, one of which was that our client was convinced she was being covertly videoed. We investigated this claim and confirmed […]

Dave and I had an early start this morning supporting a client in the Suffolk area. We made a pit stop enroute for a highly nutritious sausage roll, luckily the garage was open!  After a ‘Mr. Ben’ style speedy dress change we transformed ourselves into ‘country gents’ ready to support our client. One of the […]

By David Webb, Managing Director, Valkyrie Thank you to Derrick Brown of Mercury Protection Services Ltd. for organising a brilliant golf networking event. Valkyrie attended, represented by Gurpreet Singh Thathy who had a great time even though he lost, massively – he said losing was a ’tactical’ move and totally ‘intentional,’ yea right!? Great to […]

By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie The aim of an investigation is to gain as much info about the case/individuals involved. One source that can provide useful intel is information from images, such as photos and videos. Forensic information from images can provide vital clues/evidence. We often hear the police during […]

By David Webb, Managing Director, Valkyrie This week, after approval from the facilities management team at 15 Belgrave square we installed our Intellikey access control system to our offices/conference room at Belgrave Square. The Intellikey system is a unique key system that provides security and transparency of Access Control. The system can be broken down […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Like many people, in the morning I catch up on the news. I subscribe to several mainstream news outlets, and there was a fascinating article in the Telegraph recently titled ‘weapons of mass distraction.’ The article discussed the psychological aspects/issues of social media (SM) […]

Following on from our Friday post, a video update from our Chairman and Founder, Floyd Woodrow we held our delayed Quantum Group briefing day at our 15 Belgrave Square offices. Each company including Quantum gave a run down of the past year and plans/goals for 2023. It was great to see everyone and how far each company has and […]

Yesterday evening we had the pleasure of attending the Tatler Advisory Launch Party at the Aubrey, Knightsbridge. Great to meet up and chat with fellow members of the Address book.

Last week, I accompanied a client to the Royal Opera House (ROH) in Covent Garden. There, we saw Mozart’s opera of The Magic Flute. The 1st theatre on the site, the Theatre Royal (1732), served primarily as a playhouse for the 1st hundred years of its history. In 1734, the first ballet was presented. The current building is […]

By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie Car theft is increasing During my police career, car thieves would gain entry to vehicles simply by carrying a wire coat hanger, wedge it in between the door frame and window, pop the lock and gain entry to the vehicle.  Nowadays vehicles are much harder […]

We were back on site yesterday for a combined TSCM/cyber tasking. Prior to the tasking coming in we were going to celebrate Gurpreet Thathy’s one year ‘at Valkyrie’ anniversary at a local restaurant. Unfortunately that wasn’t possible and he had to make do with a ‘greasy spoon’ café sandwich and coffee, we even managed to […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Last week I was reviewing Gurpreet Thathy’s (GT) report following a client infrastructure review. One of the points that jumped out at me, a point that I’ve seen often in other similar reports, was regarding the amount of data retained by organisations (org’s) and […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie A common threat within cyberspace is ransomware (RW). This threat is not new and seems to be increasing almost daily which is not good news for businesses, organisations (orgs) and individuals. As a cyber security specialist, Gurpreet Thathy (GT) remembers the first ransomware attack […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie During this week, we were conducting online research. During the task I found an interesting article in the Le Parisien about a vehicle being stopped by authorities in Paris/France near a metro station, 30/12/22. On searching the vehicle, the police found several mobile phones […]