⚠️ The Emotional Cost of Modern Threats
Why feeling unsafe can be as damaging as being unsafe Most people assume a threat begins with violence. It usually starts much earlier. 📍 A cancelled appearance. 📍 A different ...
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Early Signs Advisers Miss
How to spot when something that looks like a nuisance is becoming something more 📞 An adviser rang me recently about a man who had been writing to her client ...
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He shot a President. The warning signs were there for months.
What a Threat Assessment Actually Is: A Guide for Family Office Advisers 📍 On the 30th of March 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton ...
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Company directors details exposed
Most people think risk comes from hackers breaking in. It doesn’t. It comes from your data already being out there — in systems you don’t control. This week, Companies House ...
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⚠️ Your Client Isn’t the Target. Their Family Is
🕗 It was twenty past eight on a Tuesday morning in Paris. Pierre Noizat, CEO of French cryptocurrency platform Paymium, was going about his day. Elsewhere in the city, his ...
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🔍 You Already Trust Someone You Shouldn’t. The Question Is — Who?
🧠 What the Mandelson-Epstein scandal reveals about the fatal flaw in how we vet the people closest to us ⚠️ There is a moment in every high-stakes decision when the ...
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🎯 Executive Targeting: What Advisors Need to Notice Early
⚠️ Why this matters Most serious harm to senior individuals does not begin with an attack. It begins with small, observable changes that are easy to dismiss until it is ...
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🔒 Privacy Isn’t About Discretion. It’s About Safety.
Within family offices and advisory teams, privacy is often treated as a personal matter. Something the principal feels strongly about. Something to respect, but not actively manage. From a security ...
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🔎 The Gaps Between Your Defences: Where Threats Actually Strike
The attack that concerns me most isn’t the one that breaches your strongest defences. It’s the one that slips through the space between them. ⚠️ A family I worked with ...
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🛑 Complacency Has Killed More CEOs Than Conspiracies
Last week, Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, was groped during a routine walkabout. A drunk man got close enough to grab her, touch her chest, and attempt to kiss her before ...
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🛡️ Security vs Safety: Why You Can Feel Unsafe Even When You’re Protected
You can have all the security in the world and still feel unsafe. It sounds odd, but if you’ve got a public profile or wealth, you’ll know exactly what I ...
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🧠 When Wealth Becomes a Target
Why the Misinformation Around Tax Is Making the Wealthy Genuinely Unsafe By Philip Grindell MSc CSyP, Founder & CEO, Defuse Global 🚨 A Growing Pattern of Attacks January 2025: French ...
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