Chloe Nordquist, Author at VanishID

AI-Powered Attacks Are Outpacing Human Defenders. Here’s How to Fight Back.

The economics of cyberattacks just flipped. A single attacker with a $20 monthly AI subscription can scrape an executive’s digital footprint, build a personalized dossier, and launch a tailored social engineering campaign in minutes. Deepfakes are convincing enough to bypass... Read More

Matt Polak on Cybercrime Magazine: Why Digital Executive Protection Is a Board-Level Risk

In a 2-minute video produced by Cybercrime Magazine, VanishID Founder and CEO Matt Polak makes the case that executive protection is now a core enterprise security problem, not an HR or personal-privacy footnote. The segment frames the C-suite as the... Read More

VanishID and Carahsoft Partner to Deliver Digital Executive Protection Solutions to the Public Sector

WASHINGTON and RESTON, Va. — April 30, 2026 — VanishID, the leading provider of continuous, comprehensive and turnkey digital executive protection, and CarahsoftTechnology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a strategic partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will... Read More

Enterprise Identity and Access Management: What Every C-Suite Should Know

Enterprise identity and access management, often shortened to IAM, sits at the center of how modern organizations control who can access what. At a basic level, enterprise identity management defines and verifies digital identities, while access control determines what those... Read More

What Is Corporate Espionage and How to Protect Your Leadership from Data Exploitation

A senior executive finishes a conference presentation and posts a photo from the event on LinkedIn—harmless enough, it seems. Within days, threat actors begin mapping publicly available information about that executive, including contact details, speaking schedules, past roles, and company... Read More

Why Reactive Security Is No Longer Enough: Real Security Leaders Share Their Stories

The threats facing today’s executives aren’t hypothetical, they’re happening right now. In this montage, cybersecurity leaders share firsthand accounts of nation-state targeting, physical threats traced back to online data exposure, and the growing reality that digital vulnerability has direct consequences... Read More

How AI Voice Cloning Is Fueling CEO Fraud

It begins like dozens of other calls that happen every week. The voice is steady, familiar, and direct. It sounds like the CEO because, to everyone listening, it is the CEO. There is a transaction tied to a closing. Timing... Read More

Boardroom Breaches: What Happens When a C-Suite Leader’s Identity Is Stolen

What would happen if your CEO’s identity was stolen overnight, not their laptop or a single password, but their full digital identity? This is no longer a personal issue handled quietly behind the scenes. When executive identity theft happens, it... Read More

VanishID Welcomes Tommy Hoschouer to Advance Digital Safety and Risk Awareness for The Public Sector

Bethesda, MD- January 22nd, 2026. — VanishID, a leader in data privacy protection for the judicial branch, elected officials, and government employees, is proud to welcome Tommy Hoschouer to the team. VanishID In The Public Sector Public officials and government... Read More

How VanishID Slashed Digital Risk for a Major Food & Beverage Company

Firmographics Digital Risk Exposure Industry: Food ServicesSize: Hundreds of thousandsExecutives Enrolled: 14Employees Enrolled: 0 VanishID discovered 893 breaches and 48 cleartext credentials in the span of nine months. VanishID removed 14,386 of exposed PII over nine months. Executive Summary A... Read More

How VanishID Slashed Digital Risk for a Major Insurance Company

Firmographics Digital Risk Exposure Industry: InsuranceSize: 3,000+Executives Enrolled: 12Employees Enrolled: 0 VanishID discovered 702 breaches and 29 cleartext credentials in the span of 9 months. VanishID removed 17,705 pieces of exposed PII in 9 months. Executive Summary A leading insurance... Read More

How VanishID Slashed Digital Risk for a Major Healthcare Company

Firmographics Digital Risk Exposure Industry: HealthcareExecutives Enrolled: 850+Employees Enrolled: 2,000+ VanishID discovered 91,038 breaches and 5,423 cleartext credentials in the span of nine months. VanishID removed 3,362,526 pieces of exposed PII in nine months. Executive Summary A leading healthcare company... Read More

How to Protect Your Company’s Domain Name

Your domain name carries a lot of weight. It appears in your emails, on your social media, and across every digital touchpoint customers rely on, so people form opinions about your company long before they interact with anyone on your... Read More

External Threats vs. Internal Threats in Cybersecurity

Threats to your systems don’t just come from outside attackers. Some of the most damaging breaches start from within. Internal cybersecurity threats, both intentional and accidental, often go unnoticed for longer and can be just as disruptive as external attacks.... Read More

Family Business Magazine x VanishID Webinar: Digital Exposure, The Hidden Security Threat to Family Businesses

VanishID CEO Matt Polak joined Family Business Magazine in November 2025 to talk about how the line between work and home doesn’t exist anymore. Especially not for threat actors. Digital breadcrumbs lead to very real threats. As Matt explained: “They’re... Read More

Digital Theft: Protecting Your Business Bank Account From Hackers

When a bank account is hacked, it means someone has gained unauthorized access; typically through stolen credentials, malware, or an account takeover. These breaches allow attackers to transfer money, steal personal data, and sometimes reach far beyond a single account.... Read More

Why This VC Principal Recommends VanishID to Companies

“I think more and more you’re seeing kind of your professional life bleeding into your personal life, which wasn’t really the case before.” That insight from Principal of Energy Impact Partners, Tansel Ismail, captures exactly why executive digital protection has... Read More

The Future of Data Privacy: Key Data Protection Trends Reshaping Security

Personal data protection is evolving faster than ever, not just in 2025, but for the decade ahead. What was once a niche concern for IT teams has now become a central issue for governments, global businesses, and everyday consumers. The... Read More

Stanford’s Former CIO Raman Khanna on Why Endpoint Security Isn’t Enough

Raman Khanna, former CIO of Stanford University and board member at VanishID, gets straight to the point about a gap most security teams haven’t fully addressed. “We are tackling end point security, network security and all those things, but human... Read More

Army Veteran Turned Cyber Investor Matt Bigge on the Evolving Threat Landscape

What should companies do about the gap between technical defenses and the human attack surface? Matt Bigge, Partner at Crosslink Capital and U.S. Army Veteran, shared with us recently that his concern isn’t about firewalls or endpoint detection. The reality... Read More

Author: Chloe Nordquist