Ask most people whether a particular piece of public information about them is sensitive, and they will reasonably say no. A role title, a conference appearance, a property record, a photograph with a visible badge. Each is harmless in isolation, and each is genuinely public.
The risk does not live in any single detail. It lives in aggregation: in how readily those details combine into a picture that the subject never intended to assemble, and that someone with ill intent can use. An open-source intelligence review is, at its core, the disciplined assembly of that picture, done first by the people trying to protect against it.
We assess the publicly available footprint of an organisation and its key personnel through structured examination of open sources, including social media, public records and online platforms. The emphasis is on patterns of exposure rather than isolated data points, because the pattern is what creates the opportunity.
The review is deliberately conducted from the perspective of someone who might wish to do harm. That viewpoint is uncomfortable, and it is exactly what makes the findings actionable. It is the difference between a list of things that exist online and an account of how those things could be used.
The goal is rarely to disappear, which is neither possible nor necessary. It is to reduce unnecessary visibility: to identify the exposures that carry real risk and the simple steps that close them, while leaving the legitimate public presence intact.
For executives and high-profile individuals in particular, a periodic review is a low-cost way to stay ahead of an exposure that tends to grow quietly over time.
Threat Advisory is the threat and behavioural advisory practice of Jayde Consulting. Technical Surveillance Countermeasures are delivered by the parent practice.
