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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

Fixated persons

Nov 30, 2025

🛡️ The Protection Gap: Why Some Public Figures Are Left Exposed 🔐 A Hard Truth We Keep Seeing 🔴 SECURITY ANALYSIS While MPs now have structured protection, thousands of other public figures face the same hostility with far less support. Councillors, ... Continue reading

Celebrity

Nov 23, 2025

⚠️ Wealthy Families Are Being Singled Out — Here’s Why 💼 The Anti-Wealth Movement: Understanding the Real Threats to Your Family There’s a conversation that needs to be had. This movement isn’t a debating club on social media — it’s ... Continue reading

Book

Guy Fawkes - a case study on behavioural threat assessment

Nov 5, 2025

💣 The Gunpowder Plot: What Four Centuries of Threat Assessment Looks Like Every November, we light bonfires 🔥 and set off fireworks 🎆 to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot…a terrorist attack! Guy Fawkes, 36 barrels of gunpowder, Parliament saved at ... 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

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

General

Oct 10, 2025

When Words Become Warning Signs: Reading the Real Threats in Your Inbox ⚠️ The Surprising Truth About Threats Here’s something that might surprise many: when someone sends you a direct threat, they will probably not act on it. That sounds counterintuitive, especially ... 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

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