We are a malicious risk advisor, helping protect people, assets and operations from the impact and consequences of hostile actions.
Blackthorn ‘s Family Office Advisory service provides discreet, expert guidance to high-net-worth families and their advisors. Specializing in managing complex malicious risks, Blackthorn offers services such as threat assessments, crisis management planning, and privacy audits. Their tailored approach ensures clients’ assets, reputations, and legacies are safeguarded with professionalism and discretion.
Our core offering is the Household Resilience Review (HRR) – an unobtrusive holistic examination of the family’s risk environment alongside their current risk management arrangements.
Bringing a wealth of experience from the London insurance sector, we review current perils that can drive future threats, vulnerabilities, and risks.
We also survey the existing risk management capabilities, be those physical, procedural, digital, or cyber.
HRRs are often requested following a family relocation, a change to a family member’s public profile, or an adverse event that has raised cause for concern regarding existing arrangements.
Our heritage expertise is strategic research. Our Risk Landscape Analysis (RLA) is a comprehensive assessment of strategic malicious risks to which households may be exposed. This can be a snapshot in time or persistent monitoring, including identifying potentially hostile activity on the dark web.
We produce risk intelligence reports covering topics such as geopolitical trends, technological advancements, and political exposure across defined geographies. Furthermore, we consider direct threats, such as fixated persons.
Conscious that a surfeit of data demands pertinent succinct reporting and that discretion is of the utmost importance.
Our work focusses on proactive strategies to reduce exposure and manage risks, including crisis management planning, onboarding, and reassignment of staff, personal awareness training to counter social engineering, and privacy audits with the removal of sensitive online information.
Working with general counsels and other advisors, our solutions safeguard personal and professional identities, allowing clients to navigate public and private life confidently.