⚠️ 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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📡 If Mossad Could Map a Supreme Leader’s Movements Through Hacked Traffic Cameras, What Could Someone Do With Access to You?
A precision strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at his compound in Tehran. It was one of the most significant targeted killings in modern history — and it ...
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Understanding the Fixated Individual and the Online Harassment Threat
You’ve blocked them three times. They’ve created new accounts. The messages are getting longer, more personal, more insistent. You’ve reported them to the platform, and nothing has changed. Somewhere at ...
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🔎 The Hidden Cost of Visibility in Women’s Football
⚽ Women’s football in England has never been more visible. That visibility is deserved. It reflects the quality of the players and the game’s progress. But visibility changes the risk ...
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🔎 Fixation — When Attention Turns Dangerous
The difference between someone who’s persistent and someone who’s dangerous The letters arrived at the family home. Handwritten. Addressed to the children. The client, a prominent US businesswoman, had previously ...
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🧭🧠🛡️ Situational Awareness, Intuition and Everyday Risk
🎯 Reducing risk through calm attention and early choice Situational awareness is often spoken about as if it’s instinctive — something you either have or you don’t. That’s a comforting ...
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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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🎯 When Attention Becomes a Liability: A Three-Part Guide for Prominent Individuals
In my experience, there’s a pattern. Someone builds wealth, influence, or public standing. Life gets busier, more visible, more connected. And then, often without warning, that visibility turns into vulnerability. ...
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🛡️ Why Exposure Changes Risk (And Why Advisers Feel It First)
📌 A story you’ll recognise… A few years ago, I took a call from a family office director who’d worked with the same client for over a decade. Sharp operator ...
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🚨 When “Call the Police” Becomes the Security Plan
📰 Last week, actor Colin Salmon stood in a London magistrates’ court and made a simple request. He asked that his home address not be read aloud. His lawyer explained ...
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🔐 The Insider Threat: When the Risk Is Already Inside the Family Office
Family offices run on trust. Small teams. Long service. Close proximity to wealth and private lives. That trust is essential — but when it isn’t supported by structure, it becomes ...
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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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