Kirby Wedekind

Hannibal Strategy and Security is a risk, intelligence, security, and resilience consulting firm that seeks to understand and mitigate risk to industry, commerce, and trade. We build trust and confidence through discovery, analysis, and action.

We provide bespoke risk advisory services to businesses, industry associations, and non-profits that own, operate, or support critical infrastructure. Our risk advisory services reduce chaos into clarity to drive risk-informed strategies, plans, and actions.

We are an interdisciplinary community of practitioners who have dedicated our life’s work to protecting people, infrastructure, and the functions they provide. Our expertise comes from decades spent leading complex operations across the risk spectrum in military, intelligence, and security operations in the US and in austere environments abroad.

Services

• Risk Scenario Design: Our threat briefings provide a detailed risk perspective that accounts for current and emerging threats to our client’s enterprise and interests.

• Stakeholder Mapping and Outreach: We outline the human terrain within a given place and time to provide insight into the key organizations and individuals in the target area to set conditions for mutually beneficial coalition building.

• Planning and Design: We design, write, and review plans specific to the client’s requirements with respect to the unique threats and hazards that could disrupt or degrade mission critical functions. We specialize in business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency action, and standing operating plans.

• Training and Exercises: We design and facilitate exercises for senior executives, technical experts, and professional staff that examine responses to significant incidents ranging from cyber, active assailant, and sUAS and to supply chain disruptions, business continuity, and natural disasters.

• Security and Safety Education: We provide instruction on situational awareness, de-escalation, active assailant response, and cybersecurity fundamentals.

• Other Duties as Assigned: We excel in solving novel challenges that appear to have no solution or little chance of success and require a unique solution.

Areas of Expertise: Geopolitical Risk, Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Business Continuity, Physical Security, Resilience, Supply Chain Integrity, Workforce Safety and Security, Emerging Threats and Trends.

I advised critical infrastructure partners from private industry and local government agencies on security and resilience with respect to all hazards and threats. My work required expertise in cybersecurity, physical security, supply chain resilience, business continuity, special events, and incident response.

I excelled in translating risk in terms threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences in a way that resonated with executive leadership including board members to drive priorities and allocation of resources to reduce or mitigate enterprise and operational risk.

My portfolio included all 16 critical infrastructure sectors and focused on energy, water/wastewater, transportation, IT, communications, healthcare, financial services, commercial facilities, defense critical infrastructure, and the dependencies between each.

In this role, I built trusted relationships between industry and government through strategic planning and communications combined with tactical outreach and engagement.

I served as a Combat Engineer Officer and Civil Affairs Officer in the US Marines. In Iraq and Afghanistan, I led 150 Marines and Sailors assigned route clearance missions (patrols to find IEDs). I led theatre security cooperation missions in Central and South America as well as the Republic of Georgia. I led operational design and coordination for counterterrorism operations against the Islamic State in Libya. In the US between deployments, I led units comprising 400 Marines and Sailors while responsible for maintaining operational readiness and $75 million in equipment.

Combat Engineer Officer duties include: repair, maintenance and operation of heavy equipment; engineer reconnaissance; obstacle system emplacement; breaching operations, to include reducing explosive hazards; mine/countermine operations; employment of demolitions and explosives; urban breaching; route clearance operations; assault, tactical and non-standard bridging; design, construction and maintenance of combat roads and trails; design and construction of expedient roads, airfields and landing zones; design and construction of survivability positions; expedient horizontal and vertical construction; and design, construction and maintenance of base camps/forward operating bases and combat outposts; storage and dispensing of bulk fuel products; and the installation, operation and maintenance of Tactical Utility Systems.

Civil Affairs Officer duties include: informing, influencing, shaping, and gaining access to the cognitive civil environment through targeted and integrated civil reconnaissance and civil engagements. This role combines extensive planning, outreach, and engagement as a way of opening doors to key people and information to drive future operations.