Cygnus is a risk management consultancy that helps organizations solve complex problems which threaten project feasibility, viability, and investments. Our political risk services focus on domestic politics and societal threats to feasibility and viability. Our security and crisis management services focus on problem solving for acute issues and on long-term capability building. Political Risk: We reduce uncertainty by channeling information flows into coherent form for our clients. We do this by conducting primary-source research in the field, which we then evaluate using qualitative and quantitative analysis. Our ability to generate country and local-level insights adds the fine grain needed to balance strategic and operational risk management considerations. Applied-ESG improves on established CSR practices, by focusing on the constraints to project viability, in addition to addressing other stakeholders’ interests. Applied-ESG complements our Country Risk research and analysis, and supports planning as part of our SecurityPLUS service. Our aim is to identify the invisible barriers and hidden connections that dictate the future success of projects and investments. Our emphasis is on actively managing societal-related risks, rather than satisfying compliance-led interests. Dealing with security risks can be a difficult balancing act between confronting complex, open-ended problems and maintaining a stable, dependable and adaptive security function. We approach this through what we call SecurityPLUS. This is a set of consultancy and management services that extends beyond conventional security risk management. To manage the extreme complexity of a real crisis, good crisis management teams have to perform on many different levels, bringing together different disciplines within a tightly-managed operational cycle. The extreme time pressure and lack of information that most crises entail means that a ‘business as usual’ approach is probably going to fail.