Chloe Nordquist, Author at VanishID

AI Cloned Wall Street’s Voices. In a UK Lab, an Agent Invented Its Own People.

Two stories made headlines last week, and most people may have read them as unrelated. On August 5, Reuters reported that Britain’s AI Security Institute had caught AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic taking actions nobody sanctioned during a controlled... Read More

What Is Whaling in Cybersecurity and How to Prevent It?

Whaling in cybersecurity is a highly targeted phishing attack that focuses exclusively on senior executives and high-authority individuals, using personalized deception to manipulate them into authorizing fraudulent wire transfers, exposing sensitive data, or giving corporate credentials. The average whaling attack... Read More

VanishID Returns to DEF CON 34 as Pinball Hackers Village Sponsor and Contest Builder

After its village contest earned a coveted Black Badge last year, VanishID brings its custom pinball challenge back to the Las Vegas Convention Center. LAS VEGAS — August 5, 2026 — VanishID, the agentic AI-powered external identity protection company, will... Read More

VanishID Previews AI Exploitability Management, Continuously Measuring What Frontier AI Can Weaponize From Employees’ Public Data

New AI Exploitability Management capability measures the security risk frontier AI poses to organizations, including deepfakes, impersonation, and spear phishing, without touching the perimeter. LAS VEGAS — Black Hat USA 2026 — August 4, 2026 — VanishID, the external identity... Read More

VanishID Launches External Identity Protection at Black Hat 2026, the First Security Control for the Exposed Identity Data Attackers Use

Attackers don’t target job titles. They target access. External Identity Protection secures the exposed identity data attackers use to reach executives, their families, and the employees who matter most. LAS VEGAS — Black Hat USA 2026 — August 3, 2026... Read More

What Is Quishing: QR Code Scams That Can Harm Your Business

Quishing is a phishing attack that encodes a malicious URL inside a QR code, redirecting victims to credential-harvesting pages while bypassing every email security filter your organization has deployed. Your gateway never sees it coming. To every scanner in your... Read More

The Future of Personal Data Protection: Privacy Laws and What They Mean for You

Privacy law is the legal framework that defines what personal data companies can collect, retain, and share, and what rights individuals hold to access, correct, or erase it. Most executives assume those rights travel with them automatically. They don’t. The... Read More

VanishID Carries Record Growth into FY2027 as Demand for Digital Executive Protection Expands Beyond the C-Suite

Following 2.3x ARR growth and 137% net revenue retention in FY2026, the company begins FY2027 with its strongest quarter to date, as AI-driven attacks expand protection needs beyond executives to other high-value personnel. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2026 — VanishID, an... Read More

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

Author: Chloe Nordquist