The tragic assassination of UnitedHealthcare's CEO highlights how boards need to expand their view of executive protection. With 93% of executives' home addresses available online, the risks go far beyond a cyber breach, with digital breadcrumbs potentially leading to identity theft, stalking, harassment, and even targeted violence.
Join the Corporate Board Member Network for a timely briefing with Matt Polak, human intelligence expert and CEO of VanishID, to learn how open source intelligence is being exploited by threat actors, why traditional security measures are often insufficient, and what boards need to know to protect executives and their families in today's polarized environment.
The main discussion points are:
- Combining digital exposure and physical threats: Leaders learn how data brokers, social media, and public records create attack vectors for everything from spear phishing to home invasions.
- Executive targeting chain: How bad actors escalate from online reconnaissance and bashing to physical harassment and intimidation.
- Beyond corporate boundaries: Why exposure of executives' personal data can undermine even the strongest security programs, and how to deal with it.
- Extended duty of care for the board of directors: Where executive safety directly impacts business continuity, succession, and shareholder value, what is the duty of care, including consideration of liability if preventable exposures result in accidents?
- Build resilient executive protection: Practical steps boards can take to strengthen executive security in today's hostile landscape.
Featured speakers:
matt pollack
VanishID CEO
Matt is an information gathering expert who has spent his career applying these skills to the unruly growth and competitive strategy challenges of Fortune 500 clients. Matt's extensive experience and expertise in the field of human intelligence inspired the creation of VanishID as a way to protect people from open source information gathering by hackers.
Prior to founding VanishID, he was a founding partner at BroadBranch Advisors, where he directly supported successful M&A transactions valued at over $200 billion in more than a dozen industries, ranging from cybersecurity to life sciences. Early career positions included working in investment banking and as an intelligence analyst. Matt holds a dual MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile). He earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from James Madison University.
host:
Jamie Tassa, Publisher, Corporate Director
