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

Directors & Boards x VanishID Webinar: How to Be Seen But Not Found

VanishID CEO Matt Polak joined David Shaw of Directors & Boards on December 18, 2025 for a conversation about “The Visibility Paradox”. Your personal security measures mean nothing if your family is exposed. Matt Polak reveals why threat actors are... 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

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

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

“It Happened to Me” — Former Google CIO Ben Fried on Executive Targeting

“This is a team of sophisticated technologists applying new technology to solve problems very much like the problems that faced me.” Ben Fried, former Google exec and VanishID board member, shares a story that may not be all that uncommon... Read More

30-Year VC Veteran Jeff Hinck on Why Digital Executive Protection Matters

“I think more and more recently there’s been more companies trying to address a broader market in the digital protection space. We think VanishID is really at the forefront of that. — Jeff Hinck, Managing Director, Rally Ventures The threat... Read More

Unicon 2025 Fall Edition: Virtual Fireside Chat: Stories from the Front Lines

VanishID CEO Matt Polak and Bugcrowd Founder Casey Ellis discuss real-world horror stories from cyber and physical security, and how human risk intelligence and attack surface management help organizations stay protected. As pioneers in digital footprint protection and executive security,... Read More

What Is a Digital Footprint? How to Check, Track, and Clean Yours

A digital footprint is a unique trail of data tracing everything you do online, including posting on social media, shopping on e-commerce sites, or simply browsing the web. Importantly, it can shape how others perceive you, influence job opportunities, and... Read More

VanishID Customer Testimonial: Tammy Klotz, CISO at Trinseo

Discover how Trinseo’s leadership transformed their approach to executive digital protection with VanishID. Tammy reveals why cybersecurity isn’t just about protecting corporate assets, it’s about safeguarding the real people behind executive titles. Key Insights: Our enterprise PII management solution helped... Read More

Report: Leadership at Risk in a Data Exposed World

A 2025 snapshot of the exposure of more than 10,000 C-suite executives in the USA across different sectors and roles, and how compromised privacy impacts cyber and physical security. The numbers tell a troubling story: 93% of C-suite executives have... Read More

VanishID Selected for Mastercard’s Award-Winning Start Path Program

Enterprise digital executive protection pioneer among five innovative startups chosen as part of a new Security Solutions-focused program to support accelerated cybersecurity and fraud prevention innovation Bethesda, MD- July 1st, 2025 – VanishID, the first agentic AI-powered digital executive protection service... Read More

VanishID Secures $10M in Funding as it Launches Digital CEO Protection Offering

Armed with investment from Dell Technologies Capital, agentic AI-powered digital executive protection leader prepares for its next stage of growth Washington, DC – April 22, 2025 – VanishID, the leader in agentic AI-powered digital executive protection for enterprises, today announced its rebrand... Read More

Guide for Choosing the Right PII Removal Service for Your Business

This guide will help you: Frame the problem for your stakeholders Understand the different solutions available to your organization Avoid common pitfalls when choosing a PII removal service Understand the long-term considerations of your selection Understand when VanishID is the... Read More

VanishID’s Executive Digital Privacy Snapshot Reveals Alarming Risks for C-Suite Executives Across All Industries

Data brokers make more than 93% of U.S. Chief Executives’ home addresses visible Washington, DC – March 5, 2025 – Digital executive protection leader VanishID (formerly Picnic) today released a summary report, “Digital Privacy Snapshot: Leadership at Risk,” revealing that U.S. chief... Read More

Picnic Corporation Unveils Game-Changing Human Risk API

/ Press Releases / By VanishID WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S., April 22, 2024 — Picnic Corporation, a pioneer in cybersecurity innovation, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Human Risk API. This technology offers a unique solution for security teams, enabling the seamless integration... Read More

Picnic Corporation Launches Practical Framework to Combat Human-Centric Attacks

Company arms the cybersecurity community with best practices aligned to NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK to proactively protect the human attack surface WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S., June 15, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Most organizational breaches today continue to be the result of... Read More

Picnic Corporation Appoints Entrepreneur and Cybersecurity Executive Christopher Key to its Board of Directors

VanishID is the first platform I’ve seen that can map threat intelligence to an organization’s employee population and proactively mitigate the risk of humancentric attacks.” — Chris Key, former Chief Product Officer of Mandiant and founder of Verodin WASHINGTON, D.C.,... Read More

Focus on security education, not cyber awareness training

Written by Karen Walsh Phishing scams and other social engineering attacks work because cybercriminals use people’s digital footprints against them. Threat actors scrape social media and the internet, looking for insights about people. Cybersecurity awareness training programs, however, rarely teach people... Read More

CEO fraud: Protecting executives protects everyone

Cybercriminals do what they do for money. According to the 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 96% of data breaches were caused by external actors motivated by financial or personal gain. In order to maximize their return on investment, these cybercriminals take... Read More

Social engineering: What you need to know

What you’ll learn:  What social engineering is Why social engineering matters Which organizations should be concerned Which individuals should be concerned Why current solutions fail to stop attacks How to evaluate potential solutions How Picnic works and how it’s different... Read More

Your digital footprint: It’s bigger than you realize

Every day, people follow a set of digital routines. Some people read the news online while drinking their morning coffee. Others check their work email from their smartphone. Still others log into social media to see what’s going on with... Read More

VanishID and SLNT: Protecting your organization’s people from compromise by safeguarding their personal information

Exploitation through easily accessible sensitive personal information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. It’s how nearly all cyber-attacks begin and is at the root of all manner of human and organizational compromise. In this article,... Read More

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