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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

wealth

Jan 23, 2026

🎯 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. ... 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

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

Celebrity

Nov 16, 2025

🛑 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 ... Continue reading

Celebrity

Oct 31, 2025

🏠 They’re coming for your home, your family and your reputation! You’re sitting in your kitchen on a Saturday morning when the security system goes off. Four people with cameras and banners are setting up outside your gate. Your children are ... 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

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

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