Ombrex

Ombrex is a senior-led protection, intelligence, and advisory practice for individuals, families, family offices, delegations, and organisations in sensitive or contested environments. We work where physical protection, intelligence, and hybrid threat exposure meet.

Protection, intelligence, and advisory

Ombrex is an international security practice based in the Netherlands, working where physical protection, intelligence, and strategic risk meet.

Security is still largely organised as though risk moves one lane at a time. It no longer does: a digital approach precedes a physical one, a narrative campaign precedes a reputational attack, a compromised supplier becomes a residential exposure. Ombrex works where these domains meet, and builds protection around the way risk actually moves rather than the way it is conventionally divided.

Ombrex Consulting

Ombrex Consulting is the strategic and analytical function. It translates an organisation's intentions, exposure, and constraints into a security posture that can actually be operated. What separates it from conventional advisory is straightforward: the analysis is written by people who have run operations of the complexity they describe.

What Ombrex Consulting offers

• Risk & Threat Assessment
• Security Architecture & Concept Development
• SOP and protocol development
• Concept implementation and operational alignment
• Security programme coordination
• Protective intelligence and OSINT support
• Hybrid threat advisory
• Training design, capacity building and Hybrid Threat Awareness

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Ombrex Group

Ombrex Group is the operational function. It is delivered by a small, permanent core working with a circle of trusted specialists rather than contractors: tactically prepared, well educated, physically fit, multilingual, internationally experienced, and low-profile, with the social fluency to fit the environments they operate in. Most security firms either advise or execute. Ombrex is built so the two reinforce each other.

Capabilities

• Executive and close protection
• Travel security
• Event security
• Residential and estate protection
• Protective intelligence in the field
• Local partner selection and coordination
• Overall security concept coordination

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About

Ombrex was founded by Björn and Mel. Björn, former Head of Security to a royal household, brings more than twenty years of international operational experience and an MSc in Diplomacy and Security Studies; his applied research focuses on cognitive warfare and the way digital platforms are used to shape behaviour and risk. Mel, co-founder and operational lead of Ombrex Group, is a former member of the Royal Dutch Marine Corps and the Dutch federal police secret service, with senior experience leading protection for a royal household and for private clients internationally. They work with a small circle of trusted partners across the globe.

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Applied analysis and research

We publish applied analysis and research on hybrid threats, cognitive warfare, and protective intelligence at www.protection-in-shifting-domains.org

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Standards

Discretion and confidentiality are the foundation of every Ombrex engagement, not a preference. We operate in full compliance with local, national, and international law, and we do not name clients or discuss past assignments in identifying detail.

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Contact

Most engagements begin with a direct conversation. A brief, confidential exchange is the appropriate first step, and anything sensitive is better discussed by voice than set out in writing. Use the form below to outline the nature of the matter and the best way to reach you. Every enquiry is handled in confidence, and we reply personally.

On references

References and operational background are shared in confidence, on request, with serious enquiries. Given the nature of the work, they are not published.