Awareness
The Principal as Attack Surface
A targeting package on a (Ultra)high-net-worth principal can be assembled from open sources in an afternoon. No intrusion required. No technical expertise. Just patience and a network connection.
Awareness
Awareness is the skill of noticing change before it becomes a problem. In protective work it means scanning without fixation, reading baseline shifts, and staying functional under overload. This hub is about attention discipline, threat perception, and practical methods to widen your window of detection without burning out.
Close Protection
When Violence Comes With a Media Plan
A Zapopan ambush is not just a tactical story. It is a proactive intel and coordination failure, made worse by delayed state response and a shooter’s video that owned the first draft of reality. The attack was staged for an audience; fear was the payload.
Davos
Before the Davos Noise
Before Davos turns risk into slogans, I read the WEF Global Risks Report 2026 through a hybrid lens: economic leverage, information manipulation, cyber disruption, and political pressure. These channels couple fast, shaping continuity, travel, and protection decisions.
Close Protection
From Triggers to Thresholds
Most days don’t start with a threat, but with friction. I use scenario thinking as a decision tree: triggers, competing hypotheses, indicators, and thresholds. The goal isn’t prediction. It’s readiness without alarmism.
Close Protection
One Man is No man
One operator acting as a logistics node, intelligence section, assistant, service provider, and last line of judgment, while still doing physical protection. It is an all-you-can-eat service, and the price is paid in attention and awareness.
Close Protection
Stories That Kill, Stories That Protect
I grew up in movement. Team sports, solo sports, and a lot of time on the tatami. Martial arts were not a hobby; they were like a second home. I lived in that world of repetition, bruises, discipline and respect. In the 80ies and 90ies, you did not just practice