Recent tragic events in a highly polarized political environment have fundamentally changed how family businesses must think about executive protection. With 93% of executives having home addresses exposed online, digital breadcrumbs don’t just enable cyber attacks — they facilitate doxxing, stalking, harassment and targeted violence.
This session reveals how publicly available data creates pathways for both digital and physical threats, why traditional security measures fail to address this exposure and how proactive data removal disrupts threat actors before they can weaponize personal information against your leadership team and their families.
- The Convergence of Digital Exposure and Physical Threats: Understand how data brokers, social media and public records create attack vectors for everything from spear phishing to home invasions — and why executive targeting has escalated in today’s polarized environment.
- From Doxxing to Danger: The Kill Chain of Executive Targeting: Trace how threat actors leverage open source intelligence for reconnaissance, moving from online harassment and swatting to credible physical threats — including recent cases where CEOs faced protests at their homes and worse.
- Protecting Beyond the Perimeter: Learn why security programs fail when executives’ personal data remains exposed, and how automated and continuous PII removal across multiple sources eliminates the intelligence threat actors need for both cyber and kinetic attacks.
- Building Comprehensive Executive Protection for a Hostile World: Discover how zero-touch automation extends protection to executives’ families and inner circles, recognizing that threat actors exploit personal relationships and home addresses to bypass corporate defenses entirely.
Join VanishID’s chief executive officer, Matt Polak, and Family Business Magazine’s publishing director, David Shaw, to uncover how digital exposure fuels real-world threats — and how proactive data removal can close the gap between cyber and physical security to protect your executives and their families.
Speakers
Matt Polak
Chief Executive Officer, VanishID
Matt is the Founder & CEO of VanishID, a venture-backed security company focused on Digital Executive Protection. With 25 years of experience at the intersection of intelligence, strategy, investing, and entrepreneurship, Matt brings a unique perspective to protecting high-profile executives from digital threats.
Matt has founded three companies and built his career across the intelligence community, investment banking, strategy consulting, private equity, and cybersecurity. This diverse background—spanning both offensive intelligence gathering and defensive security operations—gives him insight into how threat actors target executives and how to effectively protect them.
Matt holds dual MBAs from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Escuela de Negocios de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. He received his BA in International Affairs from James Madison University and serves as a Trustee of St. Albans School.
David Shaw
Publishing Director, Family Business Magazine
David Shaw is the publishing director for MLR Media. He also co-founded and serves as conference director of the Transitions conferences, the Private Company Governance Summit and Family Business Legacy.
David writes frequently on governance issues for public and private companies, and develops and maintains close relationships with multi-generational family-owned businesses. He is married, with two grown children.
Benefits
- No cost to attend.
- Opportunity for questions and feedback.
- Unbiased third-party family business education.
- All participants can receive a copy of the webinar materials after the event, upon request.
- All participants receive Family Business Magazine weekly newsletter, with news, tips and trends that impact your family business. You may, of course, opt out at any time.
- 60 minutes — maximum value for time.
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