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Data

Mar 27, 2026

If the FBI Director’s Personal Email Can Be Hacked, Nobody Is Untouchable This morning, it emerged that Kash Patel — Director of the FBI — had his personal Gmail account breached by an Iranian-linked hacking group called Handala. Private photos, personal emails ... Continue reading

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

Celebrity

Mar 15, 2026

⚠️ 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 ... Continue reading

Digital Security

Mar 6, 2026

📡 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 ... 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

General

Feb 9, 2026

🧭🧠🛡️ 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 ... Continue reading

Risk assessment

Feb 6, 2026

🔍 You Already Trust Someone You Shouldn’t. The Question Is — Who? 🧠 What the Mandelson-Epstein scandal reveals about the fatal flaw in how we vet the people closest to us ⚠️ There is a moment in every high-stakes decision when the ... 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

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

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