About us

For over 20 years we have helped protect organisations from insider threat, industrial espionage & cyber-attack.

Supporting security teams, Family Offices, boards, legal and HR departments to prevent data breaches & reduce disruption caused by insiders and cyber-attack.

Our proven methods, honed from front line operational policing experience within New Scotland Yard’s counter-corruption unit have helped UHNW clients & Family Offices, government, legal, financial, the aerospace and maritime sectors to secure their data, protect their reputations and limit financial damages.

ESID’s Founder & Managing Director, Gary Peace served in the London Metropolitan Police for 18 years, including 8 years in covert policing, investigating police corruption at the highest levels. He later became Scotland Yards Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations “Network Investigator” concerning information leakage from and misuse of the forces corporate IT network.

As “Head of Digital Forenics & Intelligence Laboratories”, he successfully established the digital investigative capabililty for the UK Regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after the merger of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with the UK Competition Commission.

He and his team of expert associates have provided independent consultancy services to private clients, Family Offices, government, charity and financial services, the maritime and space sectors and to organisations dealing with security and de-radicalisation.

Gary is a founding member of the SouthEast Cyber Security Cluster.