Private Client Risk Advisory

Most families react.
Our clients don't.

Batten Black coordinates protection across digital, residential, identity, travel, and family life, so risk is found early and managed as one strategy rather than a collection of parts.

Advised by U.S. Cyber Command veterans, Navy SEALs, and operators with careers in executive protection and private intelligence.

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The Exposure Reality

The more you are worth, the more you are worth attacking.

Property records, corporate filings, political contributions, data broker profiles, and family social media combine into a working map of your life. Sophisticated actors use that map to clone a voice, stage an emergency, or arrive at a door. For private wealth, visibility is the vulnerability.

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of executives had their personal digital lives directly targeted by a cybercriminal in the last two years.
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had their home address, personal cell, or personal email exposed.
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reported deepfake and voice-cloning incidents targeting their executives.
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higher likelihood of identity theft for affluent households versus the general population.
Experian / U.S. DOJ
By The Numbers

Wealth concentrates risk.

The data is consistent across every major study: the larger the balance sheet, the higher the attack rate. North American principals carry the heaviest exposure in the world.

Family offices globally0%
North American family offices0%
Offices managing over $1B0%
Share reporting a cyberattack in the past two years. Source: Deloitte Family Office Cybersecurity Report, 2024.
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of organizations experienced an attempted or successful business email compromise last year. Source: AFP, 2025.

How Risk Materializes

You are not a random target. You are a researched one.

A motivated actor does not need to break anything. They need a professional email, a property record, a public affiliation, and a family member's social account. Each layer alone looks harmless.

Combined, they become a map. Find the business, you find the home. Find the home, you find the family. That is the trail we exist to break.

Layer 01

Breach Exposure

Email addresses surfacing across known breach datasets, with credentials circulating in criminal markets.

Layer 02

Public Profile

Corporate filings, board roles, and political contributions, all indexed, searchable, and permanent.

Layer 03

Property Linkage

Primary and secondary residences tied to a name through assessor records and entity registrations.

Layer 04

Family Network

Spouse, children, and routines visible through social media, leaving a clear map for a social engineer.

Exploitation

Targeted manipulation

Voice-cloned emergencies, vendor impersonation, and wire fraud built from your own public details.

Integrated Oversight

Six domains. One coordinated strategy.

Most security is sold in pieces: a camera here, a VPN there, a consultant for travel. We assess all of it together, because the people targeting you do not respect the lines between them.

01

Digital & Account Security

We assess devices, cloud services, communications, and personal accounts, then structure secure environments and coordinate trusted technical partners.

Common threat: corporate email compromise
02

Privacy & Data Exposure

Public personal data, location visibility, and data broker profiles are analyzed and systematically reduced through structured removal.

Common threat: social engineering from public data
03

Identity & Financial Risk

We review identity exposure, credit vulnerability, document integrity, and account safeguards to reduce fraud and unauthorized access.

Common threat: wire fraud, account takeover
04

Residential & Property Security

Residences are evaluated for access control, perimeter integrity, and public record exposure. We set strategy and oversee implementation.

Common threat: vendor and contractor impersonation
05

Travel & Mobility Risk

Pre-travel exposure reviews and destination assessments inform protocols for transportation, accommodation, and contingency planning.

Common threat: pattern analysis, travel-window targeting
06

Family & Lifestyle Risk

We assess family visibility, household routines, and staff structures so security becomes a structured framework rather than a reaction.

Common threat: family emergency scams, staff targeting
How It Works

A structured advisory engagement.

One dedicated advisor. No checklists handed off and forgotten. We map the exposure, fix it, and keep watch as your life changes.

Step 01

Confidential Assessment

We begin where an adversary would, with open-source intelligence, mapping your exposure across every domain and showing you exactly what is visible.

Deliverable: a written assessment covering breach exposure, public records, property linkage, and a phased remediation roadmap.
Step 02

Remediation & Hardening

Your advisor coordinates execution across every finding, verifies controls are properly implemented, and manages the complexity on your behalf.

Approach: critical findings prioritized first, with trusted partners coordinated as needed.
Step 03

Ongoing Advisory

Risk is not static. A new breach, a governance event, or a family post can shift exposure overnight. Your advisor provides continuous oversight.

Cadence: continuous monitoring, periodic strategic review, and full annual reassessment.
Who We Serve

Built for life under exposure.

Executives & Founders

Where business identity and personal life are braided together, and one thread leads to the rest.

Families

Protecting children, spouses, and household staff from the targeted exposure that follows wealth.

Family Offices

Coordinated risk governance across principals, entities, and the people who support them.

High-Visibility Individuals

Founders, philanthropists, public figures, and professional athletes whose visibility compounds personal risk.

Based in the United States. Serving clients wherever they live, work, and travel.

Why Batten Black

One point of coordination. Total discretion.

A dedicated advisor, not another vendor. Think of it as a private banker for your family's security: one point of accountability across every domain, focused entirely on protecting your family, home, assets, and peace of mind.

01 Advisory, not vendor

We are not selling you a device. We structure your protection and oversee the specialists who deliver it, with your interests as the only agenda.

02 Built for the threats that target American principals

Our methodology is tuned to public records, corporate filings, disclosures, and the data brokers that fuel social engineering. The protection travels with you, anywhere in the world.

03 A dedicated advisor

You work with one senior advisor who holds your full picture, not a rotating support queue that sees only fragments.

04 Discretion by design

Everything is handled quietly. Your name does not appear in our marketing, and neither will you.

Expertise

An advisory council, not a call center.

Batten Black draws on a council of advisors with careers in military special operations, national cyber defense, executive protection, and private intelligence. The people who spent their careers protecting the highest-value targets now structure protection for yours.

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Years of combined operational experience
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Security domains under one strategy
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Dedicated advisor, your single point of accountability
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Vendors for you to manage
What Is At Stake

One prevented event pays for years of vigilance.

$2.77B
lost to business email compromise in a single year.
FBI IC3, 2024
$19,372
average loss per cybercrime victim, and rising.
FBI IC3, 2024
$16.6B
total reported cybercrime losses, up 33 percent year over year.
FBI IC3, 2024
They found things about our family in an afternoon that we did not know were public. Within weeks it was gone, and for the first time we understood our own exposure. It felt less like hiring a vendor and more like gaining a private chief of security.
Martin H. · Family Office Principal · Mercer Island, WA
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Your family is protected, or it isn't.

A confidential assessment tells you which, and exactly what it takes to change it.

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Discreet. No obligation. Initial findings typically delivered within two weeks.

BATTEN BLACK

Private client risk advisory for families and individuals. Discreet protection across digital, residential, identity, travel, and family life.

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