Urban Shield protects executives, families and companies with security programs built around each client. No packages. No templates. One plan, written for you.
Be in the Now™
Civil unrest, targeted threats and a constant public spotlight have changed what protection means. High-profile individuals, executives and their families now face risks that are harder to predict, and the old approach of posting a guard and hoping is no longer enough.
Urban Shield answers with discreet, well-planned protection at home, at work and on the move. Our clients include corporations, private families, religious institutions and event organizers. We offer services tailored to each client's specific needs, and we stay with the program as those needs change.
The result is simple to describe. You get on with your life and your work. We watch the rest.
What we do
Each service stands alone, and most clients combine several. Hover over a card, or tap it, to read the full description. Every service has its own page.
A protection plan written for one client, built from an assessment of their real exposure.
Bespoke Risk Mitigation starts with your life or business as it is. We map the people, properties, travel and public exposure involved, rank what could realistically go wrong, and design layered measures for each risk: physical security, procedures, intelligence monitoring and response planning. Nothing is taken from a template.
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Close protection for leaders and public figures, at home, at work and on the move.
Executive Protection places trained, licensed agents with a principal to keep them safe and on schedule. Each detail is built on advance work: routes, venues, medical facilities and contingencies are checked before arrival. Coverage can be high-profile, low-profile or part of a wider program that includes the residence and family.
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A dedicated team that protects the home, the people in it and the privacy around it.
A Residential Security Team is a dedicated group of agents assigned to one home or estate. They control access, screen visitors and vendors, monitor cameras and alarms, patrol the grounds and respond first to any incident. The team learns the household and works alongside house staff, so security fits the way the family actually lives.
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Security programs for offices, campuses and the people who work in them.
Corporate Security covers the people, premises and reputation of a business. Urban Shield staffs lobbies and campuses with professional officers, manages access and visitors, supports events and sensitive HR actions, and helps employers meet workplace violence prevention duties. Each program is written to fit the company's culture, sites and risk.
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Protection that does not look like protection. Plain-clothes agents who blend into the setting.
Covert Protection gives a principal the cover of a protective detail without the visible signs of one. Plain-clothes agents blend into the surroundings, watch for hostile surveillance and stay close enough to step in. It suits clients who want privacy, a normal daily life or protection that does not draw attention to them.
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Facts before decisions: screening, sweeps, surveillance and assessments.
Investigative Services give clients verified facts. We run vendor and employee background checks, screen people entering a household or family office, sweep rooms and vehicles for eavesdropping devices, conduct lawful surveillance, and assess threats and vulnerabilities. Findings arrive in a clear written report.
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No two clients carry the same risk, so no two programs look alike. The process that produces them is consistent.
A private conversation about who and what needs protecting, what has already happened, and what a good outcome looks like to you.
We study the people, places, routines and exposure involved, on site and through open sources, before recommending anything.
You receive a written plan: coverage, staffing, procedures, reporting and cost, scoped to the risk that actually exists.
Vetted, licensed personnel are briefed on your household or organization and begin coverage with a named point of contact.
Risk changes. We review the program on a set schedule and after any incident, then scale it up or down to match.
Investigative services
Protection decisions are only as good as the facts behind them. Our investigative work verifies people, finds hidden devices and measures real exposure.
Our agents
Every Urban Shield agent is licensed in the state where they work, selected for judgment as much as skill, and matched to the client. Four kinds of specialist make up our teams.
Drawn from military service, law enforcement and government protective details. They run executive protection, covert details and secure transportation, and they are trained in advance work, defensive driving and emergency medicine.
Clients gainA detail that plans ahead, reads a crowd and stays calm when something goes wrong.
Agents with estate and hospitality experience who understand how a household runs. They manage access, vendors and staff coordination with the courtesy a private home requires.
Clients gainSecurity that feels like part of the household rather than a guard at the gate.
Licensed investigators and intelligence analysts with backgrounds in corporate security, public records research and threat assessment. They verify people, monitor concerning behavior and build the facts behind every program.
Clients gainDecisions made on evidence, with reports that stand up to legal scrutiny.
Counter-surveillance technicians and security systems experts who sweep rooms and vehicles for eavesdropping devices, assess physical vulnerabilities and design camera, alarm and access systems.
Clients gainPrivate conversations that stay private and properties that are harder to breach.
Urban Shield operates from California and New York, the first- and third-largest state economies in the country and the two states where most of our clients live, work and raise capital. Both regulate security more strictly than almost anywhere else, so an agent who qualifies here qualifies to a high standard.
Because the company holds its own license in each state, a client who splits time between the coasts keeps the same point of contact, the same procedures and often the same agents. There is no handoff to a subcontractor and no gap in coverage between a flight out of San Francisco and a dinner in Manhattan.
Every engagement starts with a confidential conversation. There is no obligation, and nothing you share leaves our team.