Built to keep you findable: removal is a position, not an event

The perimeter inversion: access holders and leverage points

The Way In Is Beside You

A 2025 joint advisory on help-desk impersonation, a deepfaked video call that moved company funds in 2024, and a 2026 federal warning about account takeovers aimed at prominent families all point away from the principal. This brief asks which people around a principal offer an adversary a way in, what value each carries, and how to rank them. Built from those records and an industry benchmark. For family offices deciding whose protection extends beyond the principal.

The request looked routine. That was the attack.

A 2025 joint CISA and FBI advisory on the Scattered Spider group described targeted approaches prepared through open-source and commercial reconnaissance. This second of two threat-doctrine briefs, following CB-105, asks why a request built that way reads as routine to a careful recipient, and how exposure-reduction work against it should be measured. Built from the advisory and deception-detection research, and kept at the defensive level. For those responsible for a principal's protection and for evaluating removal programs.

What we remove, freeze and watch

We Will Not Tell You It Is Erased

Clients who commission footprint reduction regularly ask why some records come down quickly and others never do. Written for that client, this brief sets out how the firm decides which response a given record receives, and what protection remains where erasure is out of reach. It is built on the governing legal regimes, named categories of holders and the record of recent breaches and bankruptcies. For principals and family offices setting expectations for a removal program.

Radaris lost the domains, not the file: judge a remedy by what it binds

Radaris.com Changed Hands. Not Your File.

A New Jersey court's August 2026 default judgment under Daniel's Law took the domains of a long-running people-search operation. This brief asks what such an order actually reaches, what it leaves with the operators, and how a covered official, or anyone else, should judge a remedy against a broker by what it binds rather than by its headline. Built from the judgment, earlier rulings in the same litigation and investigations of the operators.

The File Is Not the Product: What a Data Broker Actually Sells

Your Broker File Is a Prediction

In September 2026 Consumer Reports used new state access rights to obtain Acxiom broker files, and coverage by The Markup and CalMatters dwelt on how much in them was wrong. This brief asks a different question: what the file is actually for, what a buyer does with it, and what a correction or deletion request can and cannot reach. Built from the investigation, buyer and broker statements, and two state disclosure statutes. For advisors running broker removals for principals.