In 2026, secure event production is not a premium feature. It is the minimum bar for defense contractors, federal agencies, pharma R&D teams, financial leaders, and high-profile individuals who cannot afford a single leak. Social listening has collapsed the cost of surveillance. Opposition research is a subscription. Every smartphone on every crew is a radio, a camera, a microphone, and a publishing platform. And the venue network your event is running on? It was not designed for your threat model.
Decibel Secure is the dedicated secure event production practice within Decibel Events. Seventeen years and more than 760 events in, we have produced the Library of Congress National Book Festival, AUSA trade show programs for DSCA, and a full slate of work for federal agencies, Fortune 500 clients, and global associations. Now we are applying that same senior-led, boutique production model to the events that cannot afford to leak.
Most event production companies talk about confidentiality as a posture. We treat it as an engineering problem.
A standard corporate event has twenty to forty people on the production crew, each arriving with a personal smartphone, each with a personal social presence, each one hour from posting a photo that identifies the client, the venue, the guest list, or the subject matter. None of them are trying to do harm. The leak surface is structural.
A Decibel Secure event eliminates that surface. Every person on site, from the executive producer to the A2 assistant, operates under a signed NDA with defined penalties. Personal devices are checked in at entry, placed in Faraday pouches, or left outside the credentialed perimeter entirely. Attendee arrivals pass through metal detection and badge verification. Photography and video are pre-cleared and executed only by contracted Decibel crew, never ad-hoc by attendees. The event is produced, captured when the client requires it, and then it goes dark. No social posts. No case studies. No leaks.
Every Secure engagement is scoped to the specific threat model, but the capability stack is consistent. These are the seven pillars that define the service.
Your network, not theirs.
For more than a decade, state-sponsored threat actors have targeted hotel and conference Wi-Fi as a way to reach the people using it. The threat is documented, named, and ongoing.
Decibel Secure builds and deploys a dedicated private network for your event. Enterprise-grade firewalls, segmented VLANs, managed access. Your event traffic never touches the venue's public infrastructure.
The capability stack is identical across all five. The language and entry points differ.
Secure engagements follow the same four-phase Decibel production process, with additional protocol layers at every phase.
Every Secure engagement is scoped to the specific threat model, but the capability stack is consistent. These are the seven pillars that define the service.
No. SCIFs are ICD 705 compliant facilities constructed by specialized facility firms and accredited by the federal government. Decibel Secure produces events inside client-selected venues, which may or may not include SCIF space. We partner with SCIF construction firms where a client requires new accredited space, and we produce the event experience inside the accredited environment.
Every Decibel crew member signs a project-specific NDA. For engagements that require personnel with active security clearances, we source cleared crew to the level the engagement requires. Not every secure event requires cleared staff. Every secure event requires NDA-bound staff.
Based on the client's threat model, we deploy one of three protocols: Faraday pouches issued at check-in and returned at departure, full device surrender to secured lockers with credentialed retrieval, or no-device-allowed credential zones. Decibel manages the inventory, intake workflow, and chain of custody.
No, and that is not a theoretical concern. The Kaspersky DarkHotel research campaign documented years of targeted espionage conducted through luxury hotel Wi-Fi against defense, pharmaceutical, and energy industry executives. A 2017 FireEye report attributed a coordinated hotel Wi-Fi attack campaign across seven European countries to APT28, the Russian GRU unit. More recently, the FBI and allied intelligence services warned about a large-scale APT28 router compromise campaign affecting hundreds of organizations. For a Decibel Secure event, we deploy a dedicated private network with enterprise-grade firewalls, segmented VLANs, and managed access. Your event traffic never touches the venue's public infrastructure.
Yes. Decibel is headquartered in Washington DC and regularly produces events across the United States, including New York, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Miami, as well as international work in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and London. The Secure Event Production service is national and international in scope.
Secure events are scoped to the specific protocol tier required. Pricing reflects the additional work of NDA administration, cleared personnel sourcing, Faraday inventory and sanitization, credentialing workflow, and security coordination. Most Secure engagements fall in the $250,000 to $1,000,000+ range. We provide transparent, itemized proposals after initial discovery.
If you are planning an event where a leak is not acceptable, we would like to understand what you are producing and how we can help.
Initial conversations are held under mutual NDA. There is no marketing drip sequence. There is no sales follow-up that references your company. Just a direct conversation about your event, your threat model, and whether Decibel Secure is the right fit.
Initial conversations are held under mutual NDA. No marketing drip sequence. No unsolicited follow-up that references your company.
