The Defuse Podcast: Feel Safer in Public Life
🎙️ Prominent families face threats that very few people properly understand.
Most are not dramatic. They arrive quietly.
• A fixation
• An online campaign
• A trusted insider
• A family member under pressure
• A reputation damaged in hours
The sort of problems most advisers never see until it is too late.
👤 I'm Philip Grindell.
After 35 years at Scotland Yard and in government protection, including building Parliament's specialist threat assessment team after the murder of Jo Cox MP, I founded Defuse Global.
🎧 This podcast is a series of honest conversations with the people who deal with risk, crisis, and the pressure of prominence at the highest level.
🧠 Former FBI behavioural specialists
⚖️ Crisis advisers
🛡️ Reputation lawyers
🧬 Forensic psychologists
🏛️ Family office leaders
Occasionally, principals themselves speak candidly about what prominence costs.
🚫 No drama.
🚫 No fearmongering.
Just practical insight from people who have spent years dealing with real threats.
Because the real subject is not security.
➡️ It is helping people feel safer in public life.
🌍 Defuse Global works quietly with a small number of clients worldwide.
If this world feels familiar, the conversation need not end with the podcast.
The Defuse Podcast: Feel Safer in Public Life
Social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting with Benjamin Barrontine
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The Defuse Podcast with Benjamin Barrontine – Social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting.
In an increasingly digital age staying safe requires an understanding of how adversaries operate in order to build an operational system that works.
In this podcast we hear from an expert who has used social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting offensively when targeting enemy forces and terrorists in covert combat operations and now uses his expertise defensively when protecting his global clients.
Benjamin Barrontine spent 15 years in the US military. He initially served in the infantry soldier before moving into the Special Forces specialising in intelligence, social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting. He's has also worked with the NSA National Security Agency, the US Marshals Service, and NASA.
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