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For Executives & Founders

Your business made you visible.
Visibility made you a target.

For executives and founders, the line between professional identity and personal life doesn't exist. Everything that built your reputation also built a dossier. Batten Black structures protection around that reality.

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Advised by U.S. Cyber Command veterans and operators with careers in private intelligence. Discreet by design.

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more likely C-suite executives are to receive targeted phishing attacks than other employees
Abnormal AI / SOCRadar, 2025
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of all social media impersonation activity in Q3 2024 specifically targeted executives
PhishLabs / SOCRadar, 2025
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of organizations suffered a successful CEO or CFO impersonation wire fraud attempt in 2024
Truist / SOCRadar, 2025
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lost in a single deepfake video call — a named, documented incident targeting a finance executive in 2024
Arup / Hong Kong Police, 2024
The Liquidity Moment

Everything changes the day your name hits the press.

A funding round, an acquisition, an IPO, or a high-profile exit doesn't just change your balance sheet. It changes your attack surface overnight. Toggle below to see what shifts.

Before

Public profile

LinkedIn, a company bio, and a handful of press mentions. Your name is searchable but not prominent. You are one of many in your sector.

Before

Home address exposure

Property records are technically public but require effort to find. Most people researching you don't go that far.

Before

Financial visibility

Your wealth is real but largely private. Competitors may know your rough position but there's no public confirmation of scale.

Before

Family exposure

Your family is mostly unknown to anyone outside your personal circle. Spouses and children aren't associated with your professional identity publicly.

Before

Threat sophistication

Generic phishing and credential attacks. You're in large datasets but not individually targeted. The threat is broad, not precise.

Before

Vendor and advisor trust

Your professional relationships are known within your network. Impersonation requires insider knowledge most attackers don't have.

A manageable exposure profile. Most executives at this stage are under-protected but not acutely targeted.

After

Public profile

TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg. Your deal size, your stake, and your name are permanent public record. You are now a named, quantified target.

After

Home address exposure

Press coverage links your name to your city. A motivated actor combines that with property records and has your address in minutes. New properties acquired post-event are often even more exposed.

After

Financial visibility

The deal value is published. Your approximate net worth is calculable. You are now in a different risk tier — one that attracts sophisticated, patient threat actors.

After

Family exposure

Congratulatory social media posts from family members, school affiliations, and spouse profiles become searchable and linkable to the event. The family is now part of the dossier.

After

Threat sophistication

You attract targeted, researched attacks: voice-cloned wire fraud, advisor impersonation, physical surveillance. Generic threats are replaced by precision ones.

After

Vendor and advisor trust

New advisors, attorneys, and bankers are introduced. Your professional network is now larger, less vetted, and publicly documented — prime material for impersonation attacks.

This is the moment most founders and executives have no security program in place. It is also the moment they need one most.

Who We Serve

Built for the moment your profile outpaced your protection.

Post-liquidity founders

A deal closes and the exposure profile changes overnight. We assess and address the new risk before it's exploited.

C-suite executives

Where business identity and personal life are fully fused, and one thread of public information leads to the rest.

Board members & investors

Governance filings and portfolio disclosures create a permanent, searchable record of affiliations, assets, and relationships.

High-visibility operators

Entrepreneurs, public speakers, and media-facing executives whose visibility is an asset professionally and a liability personally.

How Attacks Are Built

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

The people targeting executives and founders do not need to break anything. They need a press release, a property record, a LinkedIn profile, and a family member's Instagram. Each piece is harmless. Together they become a working attack.

Batten Black maps that chain before it becomes operational. Then we break it.

See your exposure
Layer 01

Press and public record

Deal announcements, board filings, and corporate registrations create a permanent, searchable record of your name, roles, and affiliations.

Layer 02

Property and location linkage

Primary and secondary residences tied to your name through assessor records and entity registrations. New acquisitions post-event are often the most exposed.

Layer 03

Breach and data broker exposure

Personal email, mobile number, and home address circulating in breach datasets and data broker databases — cross-referenced with your public profile for precision targeting.

Layer 04

Family and social network

Congratulatory posts, school affiliations, and family accounts link your spouse and children to your professional identity — and your home address.

Exploitation

Wire fraud, voice cloning, physical targeting

The assembled picture enables deepfake emergency calls from your number, advisor impersonation, and in serious cases, physical approaches against you or your family.

What Batten Black Does

Six domains. One advisor. No gaps.

Hover any domain to see the threat it addresses. We assess all of them together because the people targeting you don't operate in silos.

01

Digital & Account Security

Personal devices, accounts, email, and communications assessed, hardened, and monitored. Secure environments structured and technical partners coordinated.

If unaddressed

Account takeover & credential compromise

Personal email is the most common entry point to financial accounts, legal systems, and private communications. It is also the easiest to harden.

02

Privacy & Data Exposure

Public profiles, data broker listings, property records, and breach datasets inventoried and systematically reduced. The map that enables targeting is dismantled.

If unaddressed

Social engineering from public data

A motivated actor with your address, phone, email, and family structure has everything needed to stage a convincing impersonation or approach.

03

Identity & Financial Risk

Identity exposure, credit vulnerability, wire transfer protocols, and document integrity reviewed. BEC and wire fraud protections structured across personal and business accounts.

If unaddressed

Wire fraud & financial account compromise

49% of organizations faced a successful executive impersonation wire fraud in 2024. The average loss per incident runs to seven figures.

04

Residential & Property Security

Each residence assessed for access control, perimeter integrity, smart home exposure, and public record linkage. Strategy set and vetted partners coordinated.

If unaddressed

Physical targeting & contractor impersonation

Known home address combined with a predictable schedule is sufficient for physical targeting. New acquisitions post-liquidity are especially exposed before security is reviewed.

05

Travel & Mobility Risk

Pre-travel exposure reviews and intelligence briefings inform protocols for domestic and international travel. Pattern analysis and travel-window targeting addressed before departure.

If unaddressed

Pattern exploitation & in-transit targeting

A predictable travel schedule is a known vulnerability. Conference attendance, investor meetings, and board travel create recurring, exploitable windows.

06

Family & Lifestyle Risk

Family visibility, household routines, and staff structures assessed. Security becomes a structured framework for the whole household, not a set of individual precautions.

If unaddressed

Family emergency scams & indirect targeting

Voice-cloned emergency calls impersonating a child or spouse are among the highest-conversion attacks against executives. They bypass every technical control.

← Hover any card to see the threat it addresses →

How It Works

One engagement. Total picture.

The assessment begins where an adversary would. What follows is coordinated remediation and an ongoing advisory relationship that keeps pace as your profile evolves.

Step 01

Confidential Assessment

We begin with open-source intelligence — mapping your exposure across digital, residential, identity, family, and financial domains using the same methods a sophisticated adversary would employ.

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

Remediation & Hardening

Your advisor coordinates execution across every finding — prioritizing critical vulnerabilities first and managing the complexity so you don't have to.

Approach: one advisor coordinates all partners. You receive confirmation that findings are resolved, not a checklist to manage yourself.
Step 03

Ongoing Advisory

A new role, a deal announcement, a property acquisition, or a change in family visibility can shift your exposure overnight. Your advisor provides continuous oversight and annual reassessment.

Cadence: continuous monitoring, standing availability for emerging situations, and full annual reassessment across all domains.
See the full process in detail
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For Family Offices

If your wealth is managed through a family office structure, the protection strategy extends to principals, entities, staff, and properties — with additional complexity around the office itself.

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Also relevant

What is doxxing — and why executives are the primary target

Understand how public data is weaponized, why high-net-worth individuals are disproportionately exposed, and what a structured response looks like.

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“
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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