Chloe Nordquist, Author at VanishID

Six-Time CISO Jim Routh on Why Executive Protection Needs a Digital Immune System

The average eCrime breakout time, the gap between an attacker getting into a network and moving deeper into it, fell to 29 minutes in 2025, down from 48 minutes the year before. The fastest breakout CrowdStrike recorded was 27 seconds.... Read More

VanishID Named Best Digital Executive Protection Platform at The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026

The Hacker News, a well-known cybersecurity publisher, recognizes VanishID’s agentic AI approach to removing exposed personal data and shielding executive identities. BETHESDA, MD — June 12, 2026 — VanishID has won Best Digital Executive Protection Platform at The Hacker News... Read More

Digital Executive Protection vs. Traditional Physical Security

Digital executive protection is the systematic removal and suppression of an executive’s personal data from public sources before that data enables physical or reputational harm. Most security programs never see the reconnaissance phase. A threat actor can confirm a CEO’s... Read More

Q&A: Casey Ellis on Why Public-Facing Founders Need a Personal Security Layer

When the founder of Bugcrowd starts thinking harder about his own digital exposure, security leaders should pay attention. Casey Ellis has spent more than a decade running a global community of hackers, which means he’s lived on the public side... Read More

Digital Executive Protection for Family Offices

Digital executive protection for family offices is the continuous identification and removal of personal data that threat actors use to build targeting profiles against principals, their families, and household staff. Most family offices run on fewer than ten people managing... Read More

The True Cost of an Employee Data Breach to Your Organization

An employee data breach is a security incident in which workforce personal information, including names, addresses, payroll records, or credentials, is exposed, stolen, or misused by unauthorized parties. Most organizations don’t discover the real cost until the legal invoices land... Read More

How to Build a Digital Footprint Management Program at Scale

Introduction A digital footprint management program at scale is a repeatable operational system that monitors, removes, and tracks personal exposure data for large executive cohorts without requiring proportional increases in analyst headcount. Most programs don’t break under pressure. They break... Read More

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

Author: Chloe Nordquist