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Celebrity

Oct 27, 2025

🛡️ 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 ... Continue reading

Book

Oct 22, 2025

🧠 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 ... Continue reading

Threats Management

Oct 5, 2025

⚠️ Why Wealthy Families Ignore the One Thing That Could Save Them When the First Lady of the United States publicly calls for behavioural threat assessment after a school shooting, you’d think family offices might pay attention. Melania Trump’s recent statement wasn’t ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Sep 27, 2025

🚨 When Global Chaos Hits Your Boardroom – How Smart Leaders Are Responding 🚨 When Global Chaos Hits Your Boardroom How Smart Leaders Are Responding Allied Universal’s latest World Security Report validates much of what we’ve been saying: leaders who act decisively on ... Continue reading

General

Sep 21, 2025

🔒 Your Home’s Secrets Are Already Public Here’s What Others Know About You Most people think home security means buying an alarm and hoping for the best. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: while worrying about locks and ... Continue reading

Book

Jul 6, 2025

Underestimating Threat Levels: The Hidden Risk You Can’t Afford to Ignore When I was handed that scrap of paper in Parliament—six lines about a planned attack on an MP—the threat wasn’t just what was written. One of the biggest dangers I ... Continue reading

General

Jun 12, 2025

The Attack Cycle – A UK Perspective Your Shield Against Targeted Violence Why This Matters to You Right Now If you’re reading this, something’s made you feel exposed. Maybe you’ve received worrying messages, noticed someone taking too ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

May 26, 2025

The Fixated Threat: What Every Close Protection Operative Must Know Right, let’s get straight to the point. You’re out there protecting someone important, and there’s always that one individual who makes your skin crawl. They’re not just another fan or ... Continue reading

Reputation management

Reputation and painful human condition, pictured as a wooden human figure pushing heavy weight to show how hard it can be to deal with Reputation in human life, 3d illustration

Apr 21, 2025

From Vulnerability to Visibility: Overcoming Reputational Anxiety in the Public Eye I remember sitting across from this extremely wealthy tech CEO who’d cancelled three charity events because someone kept posting conspiracy theories about him online. “I just can’t risk it,” he ... Continue reading

Book

Mar 17, 2025

GB News Interview with Nana Akua The Hidden Guardian: How a Second Terror Attack on an MP Was Prevented On Sunday, 16th March 202,5, Nana Akua interviewed Philip Grindell, CEO of Defuse Global, on GB News: ... Continue reading

Book

Feb 24, 2025

I’m now officialy a published author Here is the deal of the week! It is less than the price of an expresso coffee in London! ☕ 🥂 📚 👏 Today is the day my book is ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Jan 30, 2025

It’s about intent, not ideology: Why grievances matter. In the UK this week, the news has featured the 18-year-old Southport triple murderer being sentenced to 52 life in prison with a minimum of 52 years, and the British ... Continue reading

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