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James Festa: How Executive Protection Teams Evaluate Online Threats

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Key Takeaways

  • Executive protection teams evaluate online threats by examining observable behavior, context, timing, and patterns rather than treating every angry comment as evidence of danger.
  • Threat assessment becomes more significant when online communication suggests planned action, personal contact, access, or a specific interest in reaching a protected individual.
  • Repeated messages, escalating language, location references, and connections to recent events can provide additional context for determining whether closer review is warranted.
  • Careful documentation of screenshots, dates, times, usernames, links, and message content helps security teams make decisions based on accurate records rather than memory or incomplete reports.
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3 Biggest Online Threats to Businesses and How to Avoid Them

With so much business being conducted online, making sure all your information is secure should be one of your company’s top priorities. And although no business anticipates that it will be them who’s hit by a data breach or hack, it can be detrimental to your business if and when it happens. To combat against this, it’s important for businesses to know just where their vulnerabilities lie and how to keep those vulnerabilities from being exposed.

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To help with that, here are three of the biggest online threats to business and what you can do to minimize them.

Customer Information Breaches

If you do business online with customers, you have to protect their data against breaches at all costs.…

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