Red Five Security LLC.

What Red Five Security LLC. does

Red5 Security, LLC (formerly Red Five Security) is a privately held protective intelligence and security consulting firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The company serves three primary client segments — private clients and family offices, high-profile individuals, and corporations — delivering services designed to identify risk signals early and act before those signals escalate into operational, physical, or reputational disruption. Its senior leadership and advisory ranks draw heavily from the CIA, broader U.S. intelligence community, law enforcement, and military, and the company holds a Virginia DCJS license (#11-7098) authorizing its security services operations.

The firm operates two revenue streams. The first is Continuous Intelligence, a retainer-based managed service that embeds protective intelligence analysts into the client environment and combines Protective Intelligence and Risk Analysis, 24/7 Threat Monitoring and Digital Risk Detection, and Privacy Protection and Exposure Reduction (including personal data removal, digital footprint monitoring, and impersonation detection). The second is Consulting Services, a project-based line covering threat, vulnerability and risk assessments, due diligence and investigations, security planning, business continuity, and active threat training. Underlying delivery is an AI-augmented platform used for pattern identification, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics across monitored environments, with all final assessments and recommendations routed through human analysts under a publicly stated AI Oversight Framework.

Commercially, Red5 engages through direct, senior-led conversations with prospective clients and discloses no public pricing; engagements are quote-based and typically structured as multi-year retainers on the managed side and project scopes on the consulting side. The company markets through thought-leadership content (white papers, risk briefs, the Insights platform) and a newsletter, with sales executed by a dedicated Head of Sales and senior advisors. The firm is founder-controlled (Kris Coleman, Founder/President/CEO) with no institutional capital raised, and operates Red Hands Helping as a wholly-owned charitable subsidiary committing at least 1% of annual profits to community initiatives.

Name

Red Five Security LLC.

Legal name

Red Five Security, LLC

Website

https://red5security.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Red5 Security is a privately held, Arlington, VA-based protective intelligence and consulting firm serving family offices, high-profile individuals, and corporations with retainer-based continuous intelligence and project-based security consulting, augmented by AI for pattern detection.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Protective Intelligence and Security Consulting

NAICS

Investigation, Guard, and Armored Car Services (56161), Security Systems Services (56162), Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Detective, Guard & Armored Car Services (7381), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Protection Intelligence & Threat Management (Protective Intelligence) (BPAKABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Threat Intelligence Services (BPAEADAC), Data Security & Privacy Services (DLP, Encryption, Privacy Ops) (BPAKAHAM), Penetration Testing & Red Teaming (BPAKADAE)

Keywords

• Protective intelligence services
• Executive protection consulting
• Threat vulnerability assessments
• Corporate security advisory
• Family office security

Headquarters

HQ city

Mclean

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Continuous Intelligence Services: Ongoing monitoring and guidance aligned to client risk environments. Retained protective intelligence services embedded directly into client environments with ongoing advisory support. Combines protective intelligence analysis, threat monitoring, and privacy protection services.
2. Consulting Services: Focused, intelligence-led assessments for specific risks, events, travel, leadership exposure, or strategic initiatives. Includes threat/vulnerability assessments, due diligence, investigations, security planning, skills training, and special projects. Typically project-based engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Red5 Security provides retainer-based and project-based protective intelligence and security consulting for high-net-worth families, high-profile individuals, and corporations. Its core Continuous Intelligence service combines protective intelligence analysis, 24/7 threat monitoring and digital risk detection, and proactive privacy/exposure reduction, while its Consulting Services deliver focused threat and vulnerability assessments, due diligence and investigations, security planning, and specialized training. All engagements are delivered by senior, intelligence-experienced practitioners and supported by an internally developed AI-augmented intelligence platform used for pattern detection under human-led oversight.

Product overview

Red5 Security operates as a strategic intelligence and consulting firm offering a unified managed intelligence service portfolio focused on proactive protective security. The core offering consists of Continuous Intelligence services (combining Protective Intelligence & Risk Analysis, 24/7 Threat Monitoring & Digital Risk Detection, and Privacy Protection & Exposure Reduction) alongside Consulting Services (including Threat/Vulnerability/Risk Assessments, Due Diligence & Investigations, and specialized Training). The company supplements these with an Insights Platform delivering white papers and risk briefs on security topics. With over 20 years of experience, Red5 applies disciplined intelligence methodology supported by AI for pattern identification and monitoring, while maintaining human-led decision-making for all assessments and recommendations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Continuous Intelligence Retainer-based, ongoing protective intelligence service combining protective intelligence analysis, 24/7 threat monitoring and digital risk detection, and proactive privacy/exposure reduction to deliver continuous situational awareness and early-warning threat identification for corporations, high-profile individuals, and private clients and family offices.
• Consulting Services Project-based intelligence-led consulting covering threat, vulnerability and risk assessments (including TVRA, security needs assessments, travel risk assessments, cybersecurity audits, technical surveillance countermeasures, and IRS Section 132 Independent Security Studies), due diligence and investigations, digital forensics, business continuity and emergency action planning, workplace violence prevention, active aggressor training, organizational risk strategy, and tailored skills training and special projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Red5 helps clients identify what matters, interpret what it means, and guide action before risk compounds into disruption

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OnticcoreTechnology or Integration · 26 February 2025Strategic partnership with Ontic, a leader in Connected Intelligence and creator of the Ontic Platform. The collaboration combines human intelligence with Ontic's software platform to provide comprehensive defense through enhanced threat detection, seamless integration, and operational efficiency. Red5's managed services integrate with Ontic's unified platform for proactive risk management. The partnership enables real-time, actionable insights and full-spectrum solutions from detection and prevention to response and recovery.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Gavin de Becker & Associates: Gavin de Becker & Associates is a long-standing protective intelligence and security consulting firm focused on threat assessment and executive/family protection for high-profile individuals, making it one of the closest direct analogs to Red5's HNW and family-office practice.
• Control Risks: Control Risks is a global corporate security and political risk consultancy providing protective intelligence, executive protection, investigations, and threat monitoring to multinational corporations, directly overlapping Red5's corporate protective intelligence offering.
• Hillard Heintze (Jensen Hughes): Hillard Heintze, now part of Jensen Hughes, is a security risk advisory firm delivering threat and vulnerability assessments, protective intelligence, and executive security consulting to corporate and HNW clients, closely aligned with Red5's Continuous Intelligence and consulting portfolios.
• S-RM: S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy providing threat intelligence, protective services, and security advisory to corporates and HNW clients, with comparable methodologies and overlapping buyer personas.
• Ontic: Ontic is a Connected Intelligence software platform for protective intelligence, threat monitoring, and case management serving corporate security teams; it is Red5's strategic partner and a direct competitor in the protective intelligence software-plus-services space.
• Concentric Advisors: Concentric Advisors is a security and intelligence advisory firm serving family offices, high-profile individuals, and corporations with protective intelligence, threat assessment, and executive security services, highly comparable in buyer profile and service mix.

Broad incumbents

• Kroll: Kroll is a global professional services firm offering corporate security, investigations, threat intelligence, and protective services across a much broader portfolio, providing a scaled incumbent benchmark for Red5's corporate and HNW engagements.
• Pinkerton: Pinkerton is a long-established corporate security and investigations firm offering protective services, threat monitoring, and due diligence globally, representing a broad incumbent competitor with deeper resources and broader geographic reach than Red5.
• FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting's Risk & Compliance practice delivers corporate security advisory, threat intelligence, and investigations to large enterprises and HNW clients, making it a broad incumbent competitor on enterprise protective intelligence mandates.
• Securitas: Securitas is a large global security services provider with protective services, monitoring, and risk advisory capabilities, representing a broad incumbent that competes with Red5 on integrated managed security for corporate accounts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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