Jayde Consulting combines technical expertise, behavioural intelligence, and strategic judgement to protect the people, information, and reputation our clients cannot afford to lose.
We consider the broader threats to privacy and integrity, and the most effective ways to combat them.
Jayde Consulting is an Australian-owned counterespionage advisory firm. We help organisations protect their people, assets, and sensitive information through technical surveillance countermeasures, behavioural intelligence, insider threat advisory, and executive vulnerability assessment, delivered as part of a broader advisory model rather than as isolated services. Technical surveillance countermeasures are our core discipline and the focus of most of our team; alongside them, our behavioural practice advises boards, senior executives, and high-profile individuals as a discreet, behaviourally qualified confidant in high-stakes or high-pressure situations where conduct, reputation, and brand are exposed.
Our approach reflects a simple reality: most security failures involve people, not just systems. We integrate behavioural insight with technical assessment to understand how vulnerabilities are created, exploited, and sustained, so that risk is addressed at its source rather than treated only at a technical level. Engagements are conducted with discretion and precision, and tailored to the specific risk profile of each organisation.
We assess how vulnerabilities arise through behaviour, not only through technology.
We do not sell or install surveillance equipment, so our advice stays objective and free from commercial influence.
We engage only with professional and ethical organisations, and recommend only what is warranted.
We maintain a deliberate focus on contemporary threat environments through ongoing research, international engagement, and continuous professional development, so that our advice is current and workable in practice.
More than thirty years across counterespionage, behavioural intelligence, and executive threat assessment. Julian holds a Master of Science in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis, with postgraduate study in investigative interviewing, behavioural profiling, and forensic linguistics, and speaks internationally on technical surveillance, deception, and behavioural risk. He is also trained in technical surveillance countermeasures through multiple courses at REI in the United States, alongside a range of further workshops and private training engagements.
Decades of experience in technical surveillance countermeasures operations, physical penetration testing, and security systems consulting, with a background in the research and development of alarm and access control equipment. Ian's TSCM expertise has been built in-house and in the field across more than two decades and many thousands of inspections, grounded in his research and development work and extensive practical engagements rather than the classroom. He manages all of our TSCM engagements, on both the team and client side, oversees the firm's physical penetration testing alongside Neal M., and is our designated first-aid representative, ensuring each assignment is scoped, resourced, and delivered to a consistent professional standard.
Our leadership is supported by a multidisciplinary team of specialists drawn from defence, intelligence, law enforcement, and academia, with technical personnel trained in Australia, the United States, and Europe. The greater part of our team is dedicated to technical surveillance countermeasures, which remains our core discipline. Our behavioural engagements are led personally by our Managing Director, who draws on trusted subject-matter experts as each matter requires, so that behavioural depth is matched to the task rather than carried as overhead. Surnames are abbreviated here for discretion.
Our most experienced TSCM search specialist, with the team since 2003. Eddie served first as an Australian Army infantryman and then within a Corrective Services security operations group, and holds a Master of Criminology. He brings deep expertise in security operations, physical search technique, investigations, and the leadership of search teams in demanding environments.
A military and private-sector TSCM specialist who manages both technical and physical inspections, and a methodical operator across the full inspection process. James has completed multiple courses at REI in the United States together with defence-related TSCM training, including the ASD EMSEC assessor and installer course and Communications Intelligence Security Officer training. His combined physical and technical experience brings a distinct, informed perspective to our sweeps, particularly the inspection of secure environments.
With the firm for more than a decade. A qualified electrician with TSCM training from REI in the United States and in-house, and a thorough understanding of cabling and building infrastructure. He has been instrumental in detecting covert surveillance devices, operates the firm's technical equipment, leads physical searches, and instructs on our TSCM physical search training for government agencies, departments and law enforcement bodies.
A former special forces soldier with considerable experience breaching secure facilities. Part of the senior TSCM search team, he manages several penetration testing engagements alongside Ian P. Based interstate and travels frequently as required.
With the team for nearly a decade and qualified in international relations. Trained in-house, an experienced physical search specialist who also contributes to the firm's research and development of AI systems and processes while undertaking interstate engagements.
A former veteran of the NSW Police Force with extensive experience in undercover operations, the management of covert warrants, and surveillance, bringing a common-sense approach to TSCM inspections. With the team for approximately five years.
With our team for the past fifteen years, Neil brings decades of police and military experience and is a senior first-aid specialist. Having been instrumental in the lawful placement of covert surveillance devices during his law enforcement career, he offers a rare practitioner's perspective when searching for and identifying such devices, including covert listening devices and hidden cameras.
A military veteran with more than two decades on the team as a part-time specialist, bringing expansive cyber and networking skill sets and real-world experience searching for covert surveillance threats. Philip has completed multiple operational tours overseas and, for the past two years, has served as a supporting lecturer to defence students at university on behalf of the Australian Army. He is acutely attuned to client confidentiality and the maintenance of operational security.
Our newest team member, bringing a dynamic approach to identifying vulnerabilities during TSCM inspections.
We treat the protection of client information as seriously as the work itself. Our own systems and practices are supported by a trusted external information-security partner, led by Marcus A. and his team, and are aligned to the ASD Essential Eight and the wider controls expected of organisations operating in defence and government-related environments. This is part of how we work, not a service we resell.
Across the firm, every member of our team understands that discretion and confidentiality are not negotiable. We hold to defined policies and processes for the conduct of TSCM inspections and for the handling of the sensitive information they involve, and we apply them on every engagement.