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Book

Mar 27, 2026

Why Most People Misunderstand Threat & Risk — and Pay for It Later Before you can reduce a threat, you need to understand what it’s actually made of. In the mid-1980s, during recruit training at the Guards Depot, I wasn’t allowed anywhere near ... Continue reading

Behavioural Threat Assessment

Mar 20, 2026

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 ... Continue reading

Data

Mar 20, 2026

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 ... Continue reading

Harassment

Feb 27, 2026

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 ... Continue reading

Threats Management

Feb 19, 2026

🔎 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 ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Feb 14, 2026

🔎 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 ... Continue reading

Executive Protection

Feb 4, 2026

🎯 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 ... Continue reading

Privacy

Jan 19, 2026

🛡️ 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 ... Continue reading

Digital Exposure Assessment

Jan 11, 2026

🔒 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 ... Continue reading

Psychology

Dec 21, 2025

⚠️ Why Feeling Unsafe Persists – Even When the Threat Is “Under Control” I was reminded of The Chimp Paradox recently after watching the documentary about Sir Chris Hoy and his terminal prostate cancer diagnosis. At the height of his cycling career, Hoy ... Continue reading

Insider Threat

Dec 13, 2025

🔐 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 ... Continue reading

Celebrity

Dec 8, 2025

🔎 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 ... Continue reading

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