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Personal Cyber Security
We provide bespoke personal cyber security and digital threat management services for ultra-high-net-worth individuals & families, family offices, executives, public figures and private clients with elevated exposure online.
For high-profile individuals and families, cyber risk rarely begins with sophisticated hacking.
More often, targeting begins with what can be discovered about the client and the people, accounts and information connected to their private life. A discoverable home address, exposed personal data or credentials, identifiable travel and family routines, access to private communications, or the ability to impersonate someone they trust.
That exposure can extend beyond the principal to partners, children, household staff, assistants, family office personnel and trusted advisers, who may hold sensitive information or access that provides another route into the client’s private life.
Even a single piece of exposed information can create significant consequences. Together, it can reveal a detailed picture of a client’s identity, relationships, residences, routines and movements, creating opportunities for fraud, impersonation, social engineering, stalking, harassment, extortion, unwanted attention and threats to personal safety.
Our role is to understand that exposure as a whole. We look beyond individual devices and accounts to examine the client’s digital footprint, personal information, communications, online presence and the people around them, building a clearer picture of what is exposed, how the different elements connect and where they could provide a route to the client, their family or private life.
Securing devices, accounts, networks and communications is only one part of protecting a high profile individual or family. Technical controls cannot prevent someone building a profile of a client, identifying their residence or travel patterns, impersonating a trusted contact, targeting a family member or using exposed information to support a physical threat.
Our approach goes beyond the technology to protect the individual behind it. We combine personal cyber security with digital exposure reduction, threat monitoring and protective intelligence, allowing us to consider not only whether technology is secure, but importantly what information exists about the client, who may be interested in it, how it could be used and whether activity online has implications for their digital or physical security.
Digital protection can extend beyond the principal to partners, children, household staff, assistants and Family Office personnel, recognising that those closest to a client can hold sensitive information, access important accounts or unintentionally reveal details about the family’s private life.
Where required, our cyber security can operate directly alongside our protective intelligence, close protection, residential and travel security capabilities as part of one coordinated, intelligence led security operation. This allows digital and physical risks to be assessed together, with intelligence identified in one area informing decisions and protective measures across another.
For clients requiring a broader level of support, this creates a bespoke, intelligence led and fully integrated service, with cyber, intelligence and physical security tailored around the principal, their family and lifestyle through one provider.
Support can begin with a specific concern, or our Digital Exposure Assessment or an ongoing requirement, and can be adapted as the client’s circumstances, risk profile and exposure change.
The focus is not simply on just securing technology, but on protecting the client’s privacy, information, family and wider security in the way they actually live and operate.
Understanding Your Digital Exposure
As part of our Personal Cyber Security services, we offer a Digital Exposure Assessment for clients requiring a clear understanding of their digital footprint, online exposure, and digital risk. The assessment identifies vulnerabilities, assesses potential threats, and defines a clear strategy to reduce digital exposure and strengthen long term digital privacy and security.
Most clients are surprised by how much information can be obtained online.
Addresses, contact details, family connections, historical social media activity, leaked credentials, travel information, photographs, property ownership records and other personal information may be publicly accessible through a combination of search engines, social media platforms, commercial databases and public records and dark web sources.
Individually some of these details may seem insignificant. Yet combined, they can provide a detailed picture of a client’s routines, relationships, movements and vulnerabilities. For high-profile individuals, this information can be used to support surveillance, impersonation, fraud, harassment, extortion or unwanted attention.
For a high profile individual, digital exposure typically extends far beyond the information they personally share. It is shaped by the people, accounts, records and online information connected to their identity, family, private life and movements.
This includes:
• Personal information and identity exposure
• Search engine, public records and data broker exposure
• Search engine and data broker exposure
• Leaked credentials, compromised data and dark web exposure
• Email, communication and account vulnerabilities
• Family, household and staff-related exposure
• Travel and movement pattern visibility
• Identity, impersonation and social engineering exposure
Our confidential Digital Exposure Assessment provides a detailed understanding of a client’s digital footprint and the information surrounding them, establishing what is exposed, what can be discovered or connected, to them, their family and private life, how separate pieces of information can be connected, and where that exposure may create digital, privacy or personal security risk.
Areas of assessment include:
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Digital Footprint & Exposure Mapping
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Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Review
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Dark Web & Compromised Data Analysis
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Social Media, Location & Activity Exposure Analysis
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Data Broker & Public Records Exposure
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Family, Household & Associate Exposure Review
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Travel, Residence & Pattern of Life Exposure
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Impersonation, Identity Misuse & Social Engineering Risk
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Exposure Reduction & Remediation Priorities
The objective is to identify and then mitigate exposure and vulnerabilities across the client’s entire digital footprint. We work to establish how exposed information could be used against the client, and prioritise the measures required to strengthen their privacy and security.
While many clients choose to begin with a digital exposure assessment. All of our personal cyber services can be provided on a standalone basis to address a particular area of concern. So whether responding to a specific threat, addressing a vulnerability identified through the Digital Exposure Assessment or establishing longer term protection plan, services can be selected and tailored around the client’s individual requirements.
Understanding your complete digital exposure is the first step in reducing it.
Digital Identity Protection & Footprint Reduction
For high-profile individuals, personal information is often distributed across hundreds of online sources, frequently without their knowledge or consent. Residential addresses, personal contact details, corporate interests, historical records and other identifying information can be collected, cross-referenced and used to build a detailed picture of an individual’s private life.
In isolation, much of this information may appear harmless. When combined, it can reveal relationships, residences, assets, routines and other details that may increase exposure to fraud, impersonation, unwanted attention or more targeted security threats.
We work to identify and reduce unnecessary personal information available online, helping clients regain greater control over their digital identity and making it more difficult for others to profile or target them.
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Personal Information Removal
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Data Broker Removal & Suppression
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Search Engine Exposure Reduction
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Public Records & Database Exposure Management
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Residential Address & Contact Information Removal
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Historical Online Content Review & Removal
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Identity Separation & Privacy Strategies
Where information can be removed or suppressed, we work to reduce its accessibility. Where information cannot be removed, we consider alternative measures to limit exposure and reduce the risk it presents.
The result is a more controlled digital footprint, reducing unnecessary exposure and limiting the information available to those who may seek to profile or target the client. Digital exposure is not static. New information can appear, previously removed information can resurface and changes in a client’s circumstances can create new points of exposure. Where appropriate, this can be supported by ongoing monitoring to identify and address changes as they emerge.
Device, Account & Communication Security
Personal devices and accounts hold some of the most sensitive information in a client’s life. Private communications, financial information, photographs, legal documents, business correspondence, travel plans and personal contacts can all be accessed through the phones, tablets, laptops they use everyday.
For an individual, a compromised device or account can provide access to far more than the initial point of entry. Connected accounts, stored credentials and linked services can allow an attacker to gain access to other parts of the client’s digital life and the information held within it.
For families and Family Offices, the potential exposure can extend much further. A compromise of a single account or device may reveal information, access or communications relating to the principal, family members and staff, allowing the impact to extend across the wider digital environment and well beyond the person initially affected.
We work closely with each client to understand how they use their devices, accounts and communication channels, ensuring security measures reflect the way they live, work, travel and communicate. Devices and accounts are reviewed, configured and strengthened to address identified vulnerabilities, without compromising convenience, accessibility and usability expected in day-to-day life.
Depending on the client’s requirements, areas of support include:
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Device Security & Hardening
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Account Security & Access Control
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Email, Messaging & Communication Security
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Cloud Storage & File-Sharing Security
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Connected Apps & Third-Party Access Review
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Backup & Recovery Planning
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Personal, Professional & Operational Account Separation
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Device Loss, Theft & Remote Access Protection
The exact measures are tailored to the client, from hardening devices and strengthening authentication to securing accounts and communications, reviewing access and removing unnecessary connections or permissions while particular attention is given to any weaknesses that could allow a compromise in one area to provide access to another.
The objective is to make the client’s digital life significantly harder to compromise, without making it harder for them to use.
Family, Household & Staff Cyber Security
A principal’s digital security is only one part of the picture. Family members, assistants, household staff, advisers and other trusted individuals can hold or have access to highly sensitive information about their private life.
Travel arrangements, residential details, schedules, personal communications and financial instructions regularly pass between the people supporting a principal and their family. Those seeking information or access may therefore target the people around them rather than the principal directly. A convincing message to an assistant, information inadvertently disclosed by a member of staff, retained access following someone’s departure or an innocent social media post can all create exposure.
We work with families, family offices and household teams to strengthen security across the wider environment surrounding the family. This includes protecting family and staff devices and accounts, controlling access to sensitive information, and securing how information is communicated and shared between those supporting the client.
A family’s digital exposure is not limited to the principal. Partners and children can unintentionally reveal far more about family life than they might realise through social media, photographs, location sharing, school and activity information, gaming platforms and other online accounts. Information shared by friends, schools, clubs or other third parties can add to that exposure.
We help families understand and reduce what is visible, secure the devices and accounts family members rely on, and provide age-appropriate guidance that allows children and young people to use technology with greater privacy and security.
The same attention extends to those entrusted with the family’s private information. Assistants, household staff, drivers, contractors and external service providers may have access to residential details, travel arrangements, schedules and other private information. We consider who has access, how that information is shared and whether access remains appropriate as people join, change responsibilities or leave.
We also provide practical advice and guidance to family members and those supporting them, helping them understand how everyday digital behaviour can affect the privacy and security of the wider family. Clear procedures can be established around handling sensitive information, communicating privately and verifying unusual or sensitive requests.
The aim is to create a consistent level of security around the family, while allowing the people within and around it to continue living, working and communicating normally.
Impersonation, Fraud & Social Engineering Protection
Not every cyber threat begins with someone trying to break into a device or account. For high-profile individuals and families, some of the most convincing attacks begin with someone pretending to be a person they trust.
A payment request appearing to come from the principal, a call using the familiar voice of a family member, or an email seemingly sent by a trusted adviser can be extremely difficult to distinguish from the real thing. For Family Offices, assistants and household teams accustomed to acting on behalf of a principal, a convincing impersonation can be used to obtain money, sensitive information or access without ever targeting the principal directly.
The threat can work in either direction. An attacker may impersonate the principal to influence those authorised to act on their behalf, or pose as a family member, adviser, financial institution, supplier or other trusted contact to deceive the principal or those around them.
Artificial intelligence is making these approaches increasingly sophisticated. Voice cloning, manipulated images and video, and highly personalised communications can recreate elements of a person’s identity, while information already available online can provide the detail needed to make an approach convincing. Names, relationships, professional roles, interests and other personal information can all be used to make fraudulent communications increasingly difficult to distinguish from genuine ones.
We work with clients and the people around them to identify where identity, authority and trusted relationships could be exploited. Clear protocols can be established around how sensitive instructions are communicated and verified, particularly for payments, changes to financial details, requests for private information, account access and other actions where additional confirmation is required.
For sensitive or unusual requests, pre-agreed verification methods give family members, Family Office personnel, assistants and staff a reliable way to confirm who they are dealing with, even when a message, email or voice appears genuine. Attention is also given to how information is disclosed, preventing seemingly harmless conversations or requests from being used to obtain private information about the client, their family, movements or arrangements.
We also help those around the client recognise targeted phishing, fraudulent communications, fake profiles, lookalike domains and attempts to misuse the identity of the principal, family members or trusted contacts. Clear escalation procedures ensure suspicious approaches can be checked before information is disclosed, access is provided or action is taken.
When a communication or request matters, its authenticity should never depend solely on how convincing it appears.
Social Media & Public Exposure Management
For celebrities, public figures, high net worth families and Family Offices, social media and other public online activity can reveal considerably more than intended. For some clients, a significant public presence is part of their career or profile. For others, the concern is the accumulation of information about their family, residences, movements, relationships and private life across accounts belonging to them and those around them.
A photograph, story or video can reveal considerably more than its subject. Background details may identify a residence, hotel, school, vehicle or regular venue. Geotagging, metadata and other location information can provide further clues, while the timing of a post can reveal where someone is, where they have recently been or when they are away from home. Over time, individual posts can also reveal routines, travel patterns and other predictable aspects of a client’s life.
Exposure Beyond the Client
Exposure can extend well beyond the client’s own accounts. Fan accounts, media coverage and event appearances may be particularly relevant to celebrities and public figures, while family members, friends, staff, advisers and other associates can create exposure around any private client. Tagged posts, photographs, comments and location sharing can disclose information the client would never have chosen to make public themselves. Content shared privately can also be screenshotted, forwarded or reposted beyond its intended audience.
Protecting Families & Children
Families and children require particular attention. Partners and children may have their own social media accounts, while information about them may also be shared by friends, schools, clubs and other families. Photographs, school uniforms, activities, regular venues and location sharing can reveal details about children, family routines and where they spend time. We again help families strengthen privacy and provide age appropriate guidance that allows children and young people to participate in online life without creating unnecessary exposure for themselves or the wider family.
Reviewing & Reducing Exposure
We review the client’s social media and wider public presence as a whole, including privacy and audience settings, photographs and video, geotagging and metadata, location information, tagging and mentions, follower visibility, historical content and connections between accounts across different platforms. Older content can be particularly revealing, exposing previous addresses, relationships, routines or other personal information that remains searchable years later.
Where exposure is identified, we work with the client to reduce it in a way that reflects their circumstances and how they want or need to use social media. This can include strengthening privacy controls, reviewing historical content, managing tagging and mentions, reducing unnecessary location information, separating personal and public profiles where appropriate, and limiting connections between accounts.
Consideration is also given to what is shared and when. For clients travelling, attending events or moving between residences, real time posting can reveal current movements and locations. Changes to the timing or presentation of content can allow clients and their families to continue sharing online without providing an unnecessary real time picture of where they are.
Managing a Public Profile
For clients whose visibility is professionally important, we can work alongside management, communications teams and those responsible for social media to preserve the public presence they require while placing clearer boundaries around their private life. For private families and family offices, the emphasis may instead be on limiting unnecessary visibility across the wider family and those supporting them.
A significant public presence and a private personal life do not have to be incompatible. The focus is on giving clients and their families greater control over what their online presence reveals, while preserving the visibility they choose or need to maintain.
Travel Cyber Security
International travel introduces a different set of cyber security and privacy considerations. Devices move between networks and jurisdictions, sensitive conversations take place in unfamiliar environments, and personal or commercially sensitive information travels beyond the surroundings in which it would normally be accessed.
Travel information also extends beyond the client. Itineraries and private details may pass between family members, assistants, Family Offices, hotels, aviation providers, chauffeurs and security teams, creating additional points of exposure throughout a journey.
Before departure, we can assess the digital risks associated with the trip and prepare the client accordingly. This can include hardening devices, reducing unnecessary data, securing account and cloud access, protecting sensitive documents, reviewing backup and recovery arrangements, and preparing dedicated travel devices or accounts where appropriate.
While away, we consider how the client connects, communicates and shares information. Hotel and public Wi-Fi, foreign telecommunications networks, charging facilities, roaming arrangements and local SIM or eSIM use can all require consideration. Itineraries, bookings, photographs, social media and location sharing are also reviewed where they could reveal the client’s movements, accommodation or onward plans.
For families, preparation can extend to partners and children, particularly around devices, accounts, social media and location sharing. Assistants and staff coordinating the journey can also be given clear procedures for handling itineraries, documents, communications and other sensitive travel information.
Digital Privacy, Surveillance & High Risk Destinations
Higher risk destinations can require additional preparation around surveillance, telecommunications, border controls, device inspection and increased cyber threat activity. Country specific assessments and privacy briefings can inform what information and accounts should remain accessible, whether dedicated travel devices are appropriate, and how sensitive communications should be handled while abroad.
Planning also covers the unexpected. Lost or stolen devices, suspected compromise or an unexpected device inspection can be prepared for in advance through secure backups, recovery arrangements, remote security controls and clear incident procedures.
Our cyber security can also form part of a wider, fully integrated security service, bringing together travel security, close protection, protective intelligence and private luxury concierge through one provider. This brings digital, physical and operational security into one coordinated service, with every element planned around the client, their family and their journey.
This creates a truly white glove, all encompassing service for UNHWI & Families, Family Offices and Executives in which security, travel and practical arrangements can be managed as one, rather than through multiple separate providers. Every journey is different and presents a different risk profile, the level of protection is tailored to the destination, purpose of travel and the way the client needs to live and operate while away.
Digital Threat Monitoring
A client’s digital exposure continues to change long after an initial review has been completed. New information can appear, previously removed information can resurface, credentials can be exposed and new accounts, domains or online activity can emerge around the client and their family. Ongoing monitoring provides visibility of those changes and, more importantly, helps identify when something begins to have implications for their privacy, security or personal safety.
For celebrities and public figures, this requires distinguishing genuine concern from the significant volume of attention that can accompany a public profile. Fan activity, criticism and online discussion do not necessarily represent a threat. Greater attention is given to behaviour that becomes unusually persistent, personal, informed or threatening, particularly where someone begins demonstrating detailed knowledge of the client, their family, residences, routines, relationships or movements.
For private families and Family Offices, the indicators can be different. Monitoring can identify newly exposed or resurfacing personal information, breached credentials and leaked data, doxxing, emerging impersonation, fraudulent accounts and lookalike domains, as well as changes affecting the visibility of family members, residences, travel or other sensitive aspects of their lives. Where appropriate, this can extend to partners and children where their exposure has implications for the wider family.
The value is not simply in finding the information. Where activity warrants closer attention, concerning individuals, accounts or patterns can be examined further to understand what they appear to know, what or who they are interested in, how their behaviour is developing and whether separate pieces of activity appear to be connected. Changes in behaviour, increasing fixation or indications of intent can then be identified rather than individual posts or alerts being viewed in isolation.
This becomes particularly important when activity online begins to have implications beyond the digital environment. Repeated references to a residence, attempts to establish a client’s travel plans or current location, increasingly personal attention towards a family member, threatening communications or the disclosure of private information can all change the nature of the concern and require further protective intelligence assessment.
Significant findings are reviewed by experienced security professionals and assessed within the context of the client’s wider security requirements, rather than simply being passed on as automated alerts. Reporting can be tailored to the principal, Family Office or security team, providing clear intelligence on what has been identified, why it is relevant, how the activity is developing and whether further investigation or protective action should be considered.
Our threat monitoring is supported by our wider protective intelligence and security capabilities. Where a developing concern affects travel, a residence, close protection, a family member or another aspect of the client’s security, we can assess the wider implications and coordinate the appropriate protective response within the same security operation. This allows the digital and physical dimensions of a developing threat to be managed within the same wider security operation.
The value lies not in monitoring everything that is said about a client, but in recognising when something changes, understanding what that change means and identifying a developing concern early enough for the appropriate mitigation plans and security measures to be taken.
Emergency Cyber Response & Incident Support
When a personal account is taken over, a device is lost or compromised, private information is exposed or a fraudulent request has already been acted upon, the priority is to understand what has happened and regain control quickly. For a private client, the consequences are rarely confined to the account or device where the incident first appeared.
Access to an email account may provide a route into cloud storage, financial services, private correspondence or other connected accounts. A compromised phone may expose photographs, messages, contacts, authentication codes and location information. If access has been gained through an assistant or family member, information about the principal and others around them may also be at risk.
We can provide immediate intelligence-led support and advisory from the moment an incident is discovered, giving the client or Family Office a single point of contact to take control of the situation and coordinate what happens next. We establish the extent of the compromise, prevent further unauthorised access and secure other accounts, devices and communications that may be affected. This can include compromised email or messaging, lost or stolen devices, account takeover, and situations where credentials or sensitive information have been disclosed through phishing or social engineering. Access can then be recovered or revoked, affected credentials changed, lost devices secured remotely where possible, and relevant information preserved if further investigation is required.
The response then looks beyond the original point of compromise. We assess what information may have been accessed or disclosed, whether it creates a route into other parts of the client’s digital life, who else may now be exposed and how the information could be used. This can include further account compromise, financial fraud, impersonation, approaches to family members or staff, and the disclosure or misuse of private information. Urgent privacy breaches and accidental disclosures can be handled in the same way, even where no device or account has been compromised.
Where banks, technology platforms, advisers or other organisations need to be involved, we can coordinate directly with them on the client’s behalf. This gives the principal or Family Office one coordinated response rather than leaving them to navigate multiple organisations while the situation is still developing.
For families and Family Offices, the response can extend across anyone or anything affected by the incident. Partners, children, assistants and staff can be included where their devices, accounts or information may also be exposed. Sensitive documents, financial arrangements, travel plans, residential information and private communications can be reviewed according to what has happened and the access or information involved.
Some cyber incidents can quickly become wider security matters. The exposure of a residence, current location, travel plans or information about a family member may alter the client’s physical risk, while impersonation or targeted activity may require protective intelligence. In these situations, our cyber, intelligence, close protection, residential and travel security capabilities can be brought into the same response, allowing the wider consequences to be managed without the client having to assemble and coordinate separate providers.
Once control has been restored, we establish how the incident occurred and address the weaknesses that allowed it to happen. Any wider issues identified during the response can also be addressed across the client, family or Family Office, rather than simply restoring the affected account or device and moving on.
When something has already gone wrong, the client should not have to work out who to call, what to secure first or how far the problem may extend. We take control of the response, bring together the expertise required and stay with the situation through containment, recovery and any wider security implications for the client and their family.
Integrated Physical Security & Protective Intelligence
Digital threats do not always remain digital. Information exposed online can reveal a residence, identify a regular journey or disclose where a family member spends time. Persistent online attention can develop into unwanted physical approaches, while a cyber or privacy incident may expose information that changes the client’s wider security risk.
Our approach is intelligence led. Cyber security, protective intelligence and physical security are not treated as separate disciplines operating around the same client. Information identified in one area can inform another, allowing us to understand how a developing issue may affect the client beyond where it first appeared and adapt their protection accordingly.
A concern identified through threat monitoring, for example, can be examined to understand who may be behind it, what they appear to know about the client, whether their behaviour is changing and what that could mean in practical terms. If the activity begins to involve a residence, family member, workplace, event or upcoming journey, that intelligence can directly inform the protective measures surrounding the client.
The same applies following a cyber or privacy incident. If travel plans, residential details, a current location or other sensitive information have been exposed, we can assess what that disclosure changes from a physical security perspective and adjust close protection, residential security, travel arrangements or other protective measures accordingly.
Protective intelligence provides the link between the digital and physical environments. By examining individuals, activity, locations, movements and emerging threats together, we can establish what is changing around the client, what is relevant and where protection may need to change in response.
For ultra high net worth individuals, families and Family Offices, this means cyber security, protective intelligence and physical protection can operate as one coordinated security service. Rather than separate providers each holding only part of the information, relevant intelligence can move between the specialists protecting the client, giving the Family Office or principal a single point of coordination when an issue crosses from one area of security into another.
Our wider capabilities can bring together cyber security, protective intelligence, close protection, residential security, travel security and specialist support around the same client. Each discipline retains its specialist role, but operates with an understanding of what is happening elsewhere across the client’s security.
The advantage is not simply having these capabilities within one company. It is having the intelligence, expertise and protection working together as one service, built around the client and their family.
Protecting Your Digital Life, Privacy & Security
Personal cyber security is about more than securing devices and accounts. It is about protecting the privacy, information and everyday life of the individual and their family. Our role is to understand where those areas may be exposed and provide the level of protection the circumstances require.
You do not need to know which service you require before speaking to us. A concern may relate to something that has appeared online, a compromised account or device, the privacy of a family member, an upcoming journey, unwanted attention, or simply a desire to understand whether your current digital protection is sufficient.
We offer a Confidential 30-minute, No-Obligation, Cyber Security Consultation which is complimentary for all individuals, families and Family Offices who would like to discuss a concern or understand what support may be appropriate. The conversation is confidential and provides an opportunity to explain the circumstances, ask questions and speak directly with us before deciding whether any further action is required.
There is no requirement to proceed beyond the initial consultation. The purpose is simply to understand the concern and give you a clear view of the options available.
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