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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

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

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

Fixated persons

Feb 14, 2026

🔎 Fixation — When Attention Turns Dangerous The difference between someone who’s persistent and someone who’s dangerous The letters arrived at the family home. Handwritten. Addressed to the children. The client, a prominent US businesswoman, had previously ... 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

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 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

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

Book

Jul 6, 2025

Underestimating Threat Levels: The Hidden Risk You Can’t Afford to Ignore When I was handed that scrap of paper in Parliament—six lines about a planned attack on an MP—the threat wasn’t just what was written. One of the biggest dangers I ... Continue reading

General

Jun 12, 2025

The Attack Cycle – A UK Perspective Your Shield Against Targeted Violence Why This Matters to You Right Now If you’re reading this, something’s made you feel exposed. Maybe you’ve received worrying messages, noticed someone taking too ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

May 26, 2025

The Fixated Threat: What Every Close Protection Operative Must Know Right, let’s get straight to the point. You’re out there protecting someone important, and there’s always that one individual who makes your skin crawl. They’re not just another fan or ... Continue reading

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