HARDTARGET™PRIVATE INQUIRY
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WHO WE PROTECT / HIGH-NET-WORTH FAMILIES

Protect what success
has made visible.

A successful life creates connections.

Family. Homes. Businesses. Advisors.
Technology. Travel. Generations of information.

HARDTARGET builds protective ecosystems around high-net-worth families, reducing unnecessary exposure and strengthening the people, technology and relationships surrounding them.

THE FAMILY FOOTPRINT

A family's digital footprint
grows across generations.

Success creates more than wealth. It creates an ecosystem. Over decades, property records, businesses, charitable activity, biographies, social media, schools, travel and photographs can gradually create a surprisingly detailed family map.

Modern attackers don't need one perfect source of information. They can assemble fragments.

GENERATIONS OF INFORMATIONTHE FAMILY
01

IDENTITY

Names, biographies and generations of personal history.

02

PROPERTY

Homes, addresses and ownership records.

03

BUSINESSES

Enterprises, roles and professional connections.

04

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

Names, shared history and the people around them.

05

SOCIAL MEDIA

Photographs, activities and everyday context.

06

TRAVEL

Places, patterns and routines.

07

PHILANTHROPY

Causes, commitments and public participation.

08

PUBLIC RECORDS

Information accumulated across many sources.

09

TECHNOLOGY

Accounts, devices and connected environments.

Individually, these details reveal little.
Together, they can reveal a family.

THE ECOSYSTEM

Your attack surface extends
beyond your household.

Complex lives require coordination and trust. A family's world may depend on people and institutions well beyond the home.

Every trusted connection can also become a potential route toward the family.

INTERCONNECTED LIVESTHE FAMILY

FAMILY & DAILY LIFE

ADULT CHILDRENEXTENDED FAMILYASSISTANTHOUSEHOLD STAFF

THE WIDER TRUSTED ECOSYSTEM

WEALTH MANAGERFAMILY OFFICEATTORNEYCPAPROPERTY MANAGERBUSINESS INTERESTS / PARTNERS

The family may be the target.
The path may begin somewhere else.

REAL-WORLD INTELLIGENCE

The request will
usually make sense.

Sophisticated social engineering often fits an existing relationship, responsibility or moment.

The more an attacker understands about the family, the less suspicious the approach can feel.

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DIGITAL ATTACK CHAIN™

They study the life
before they target the wealth.

  1. 01

    DISCOVER

    Find the family through public information.

    PUBLIC RECORDS
  2. 02

    PROFILE

    Connect generations, routines and relationships.

    FAMILY CONNECTIONS
  3. 03

    BUILD TRUST

    Borrow an established relationship.

    PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
  4. 04

    EXPLOIT

    Fit the request to a familiar responsibility.

    FINANCIAL CONTEXT
  5. 05

    COMPROMISE

    Gain money, information or access.

    TRUSTED ACCESS
  6. 06

    EXTORT

    Turn access into leverage.

    PRIVATE EXPOSURE
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THE GENERATIONAL LAYER

Every generation creates
a different kind of exposure.

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01

PARENTS / GRANDPARENTS

Property, businesses, public records, philanthropy and established professional relationships.

02

ADULT CHILDREN

Careers, social networks, travel, growing independence and expanding relationships.

03

YOUNGER FAMILY

Social platforms, schools, activities, photographs, friends and emerging digital identities.

04

THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEM

Names, relationships, routines, locations and shared trust.

An attacker doesn't need everyone to be vulnerable.
They need one believable way into the family.

INTEL helps you understand how the attack develops.
The Digital BUNKER™ helps break the chain.

PROTECTIVE ECOSYSTEM

Protection built around
the family, not just the assets.

Privacy, intelligence, technology and human preparedness, brought together around the family and the life surrounding it.

Five disciplines.
One protective ecosystem.

EXPLORE THE DIGITAL BUNKER

BEYOND THE PERIMETER

One family.
Many environments.

There is no single perimeter. Different homes, independent family lives, travel and business bring different people and technology into the ecosystem.

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01

HOME

Primary residence and everyday family life.

A couple walking the courtyard of a coastal second home with a trusted caretaker
02

SECOND HOME

A different place. A different environment.

A grandmother and adult daughter arriving at a hotel with luggage
03

TRAVEL

The people and places between destinations.

A father and adult daughter talking in their family enterprise design workshop
04

BUSINESS

The enterprises around the family.

An adult son and his young family enjoying their independent home
05

FAMILY

Independent lives. Shared connections.

The Digital BUNKER goes where the family goes.

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TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS

Some of the people closest to your family
don't share your last name.

Wealth managers, attorneys, assistants, household staff and property managers know details about family life because doing their jobs requires it.

These relationships are part of the family's operating ecosystem. HardTarget helps strengthen the security awareness and communication practices surrounding them.

Protection extends to the people
your family relies on.

OVER TIME

Families change.
Protection has to
change with them.

Children grow up. Homes change. Businesses are created or sold. New advisors enter the family's world.

Travel changes. Technology changes. Public exposure accumulates.

The protective ecosystem must evolve alongside the family.

THE PROTECTION RHYTHM™CONTINUITY ACROSS GENERATIONS
01KNOW02REDUCE03WATCH04STRENGTHEN05PREPARE

THEN THE RHYTHM CONTINUES.

EXPLORE THE PROTECTION RHYTHM™
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THE OUTCOME

Protect the life you've built.
And the people who inherit it.

HARDTARGET quietly reduces exposure, strengthens the people and technology surrounding your family, and helps protection evolve as life changes.

RISE ABOVE.