“There is no action you need to take.”
“There is no action you need to take.” That is the last line of a data breach notice sent to customers this autumn. Most people will read it, feel relieved ...
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I overhauled security after Jo Cox’s murder. Many MPs are ignoring the basics
Following the tragic recent events resulting in the murder of former MP Ann Widdecombe, I was interviewed on the security of UK MP’s by The Telegraph by Colin Freeman. ...
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The Target May Not Be Who You Think It Is
Why the person who attracts attention is rarely the only one at risk ⚠️ Most threat assessments focus on the person receiving the attention. That may be exactly where the ...
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Britain’s Worst Stalker, and the Lesson We Keep Having to Relearn
Right now, in a British high-security prison, sits a man whose name has become an unlikely factor in a diplomatic dispute between Britain and Iran. Richard Jan means nothing to ...
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⚠️ The Emotional Cost of Modern Threats
Why feeling unsafe can be as damaging as being unsafe Most people assume a threat begins with violence. It usually starts much earlier. ???? A cancelled appearance. ???? A different ...
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Why Coleman Was Stopped and Rudakubana Wasn’t: Pre-Attack Behaviour and the Gap in UK Threat Assessment
Two Dangerous Young Men in the UK — Why One Was Stopped, and the Other Was Missed What pre-attack behaviour reveals about the Southport and Coleman cases — and the ...
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Early Signs Advisers Miss
How to spot when something that looks like a nuisance is becoming something more ???? An adviser rang me recently about a man who had been writing to her client ...
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???? **The warning signs were not absent. They were missed, minimised, or not acted on.*
The Southport Inquiry Report was published yesterday. I’ve read it. What it describes is not primarily a failure of intelligence gathering. It is a failure of ownership, process, and information ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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⚠️ 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 ...
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???? 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 ...
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