HARDTARGET™PRIVATE INQUIRY
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PARTNERS / WEALTH MANAGERS

Protect the relationship
beyond the portfolio.

Your clients trust you with some of the most important decisions in their lives.

Increasingly, the risks surrounding those lives extend far beyond investments.

HardTarget gives wealth managers a specialized resource for protecting clients from the digital exposure, deception and personal cyber threats that traditional wealth management was never designed to address.

THE TRUSTED RELATIONSHIP

Your clients bring you more
than financial questions.

A longtime client may turn to you when an unfamiliar problem touches the people, information or communications around their life.

These concerns increasingly intersect with the relationship, even when they sit outside traditional wealth management.

A POSITION OF TRUSTTHE CLIENT
RELATIONSHIP

IDENTITY

An identity appears compromised.

FAMILY

A child or parent becomes the target of fraud.

COMMUNICATION

A suspicious wire request arrives.

PRIVACY

Personal information surfaces online.

TECHNOLOGY

An account appears exposed.

TRUST

A family member receives an unusual message.

FINANCIAL LIFE

Someone is impersonating a client.

PUBLIC EXPOSURE

They simply don't know whether something is real.

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The problem may not begin with money.
But it often reaches the people entrusted with protecting it.

BEYOND THE PORTFOLIO

Some of the greatest risks to wealth
never begin in the portfolio.

Cybercriminals increasingly attack the human ecosystem surrounding wealth.

They study identities, relationships, routines and trusted communications, then use that knowledge to make deception believable.

THE DIGITAL ATTACK CHAIN™EXPLORE HARDTARGET INTEL
  1. 01DISCOVER
  2. 02PROFILE
  3. 03BUILD TRUST
  4. 04EXPLOIT

LEGITIMATE RELATIONSHIPS. POTENTIAL PATHWAYS.

CLIENT · SPOUSE · CHILDREN · ASSISTANT · ATTORNEY · CPA · WEALTH MANAGER

Attackers don't need to defeat the financial institution
if they can deceive someone the client already trusts.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE

The message won't
look like an attack.

These attacks work because they arrive inside recognizable relationships, familiar processes and believable moments.

EXPLORE THE CASE FILES

A SPECIALIZED RESOURCE

You shouldn't have to become
a cybersecurity expert.

Your role is to advise your clients well.
Ours is to understand the digital environment around them.

HardTarget gives wealth managers somewhere credible to turn when a client's personal cybersecurity, privacy or digital exposure moves beyond the firm's traditional capabilities.

01

RECOGNIZE

Know when a situation may extend beyond ordinary financial risk.

02

CONNECT

Introduce the client to a specialized private cybersecurity resource.

03

REMAIN TRUSTED

Stay at the center of the relationship without becoming responsible for solving a problem outside your expertise.

The advisor remains the advisor.
HardTarget becomes the specialist.

PROTECTION AROUND THE CLIENT

A protective ecosystem
beyond the portfolio.

HardTarget works directly with the client and family through the Digital BUNKER™, bringing privacy, intelligence, technology and human preparedness together.

HardTarget delivers the protective capability. Your team has a specialist to turn to.

Your clients gain another layer of protection.
Your team gains a resource it can call.

EXPLORE THE DIGITAL BUNKER

BUILT TO COMPLEMENT THE RELATIONSHIP

Present when needed.
Quiet when we're not.

You don't need to own the problem to help your client solve it.

01

CLIENT-CENTERED

Protection is built around the individual or family.

02

ADVISOR-ALIGNED

We respect the relationships and professionals already surrounding the client.

03

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Sensitive personal-security matters are handled discreetly.

04

SPECIALIZED

HardTarget remains focused on the risks it is uniquely equipped to address.

No competing financial relationship. No attempt to replace the advisor.
Just specialized protection where it belongs.

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Because trust is built
long before something goes wrong.

The strongest advisory relationships extend beyond transactions.

When an unfamiliar problem appears, clients remember the people who helped them find the right answer.

HardTarget helps make that answer easier to provide.

THE OUTCOME

Expand the protection.
Not your job description.

HardTarget helps wealth managers address an increasingly important part of the client's life without asking advisory teams to build an entirely new internal capability.

  1. 01CLIENT CONCERN
  2. 02SPECIALIST RESOURCE
  3. 03COORDINATED RESPONSE
  4. 04TRUST PRESERVED

Better protected clients.
Stronger relationships.
Clearer boundaries.

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HARDTARGET FOR WEALTH MANAGERS

Help protect what your clients
have spent a lifetime building.

Add HardTarget to the network of specialists your clients can rely on when digital risk becomes personal.

RISE ABOVE.