What this service does
At the principal-household level, digital and physical risk cannot be separated, so we protect the whole surface: the principal, the family, and the household and staff who have access to both.
You work directly with the examiner who scopes the engagement — no junior handoffs, no call center — under an NDA signed before the first detail is shared.
Discreet by default, and built around your counsel and security team rather than around a sales motion.
Advisors, attorneys, and executive-protection firms: we co-engage alongside your existing relationship under NDA, with findings flowing to you and your client. Start a confidential co-engagement.
Engagements are confidential and structured to begin within 48 hours of the consultation.
Some service tracks are offered at a fixed fee; complex investigations are billed hourlywith a clear scope, milestone updates, and a cap agreed up front.
Quinn (Founder and CEO) oversees every engagement and reviews every case before findings leave the practice; the practitioner team executes the technical work under her methodology.
- A direct line to Quinn, the founder — not a sales pipeline.
- Worked in-house by the examiner who scoped it.
- Explainable findings you can verify, with the methodology shown.
Family office engagements draw on executive threat assessment coordination, bug sweep and TSCM coordination, privacy and digital-footprint reduction, OSINT threat assessment, and personal cyber insurance coordination. Household-staff vetting uses the background investigation referral for household staff, partners, and significant introductions; field work runs through a licensed private investigator referral.
What this means for you
- Written scope before any work. You see a written scope — deliverables, timeline, and price — and approve it before we begin. You are never billed for work you did not authorize.
- We commit to findings, not outcomes. We tell you up front what the evidence can and cannot establish. Recovery, attribution, and prosecution are decided by banks, platforms, insurers, and courts — we produce the record they act on, and we put that distinction in writing.
- Every case is investigated, not just scanned. A credentialed examiner reviews every case before findings leave the practice. You get a documented investigation to court-admissible standards — not a single automated scan and a one-line answer.
- We will tell you if you do not need us. If a free or simpler step — a police report, an IC3 filing, a platform's own recovery flow — would resolve your situation, we point you there first.
Device compromise and spyware concerns for principals
The question principals and their family offices bring us is quiet and specific: is the principal’s phone compromised, and who else can see what it sees?
The concern is well-founded.
In Deloitte Private’s Family Office Cybersecurity Report 2024, 43% of family offices globally reported experiencing a cyberattack within the last 12–24 months — and nearly one-third (31%) had no cyber incident response plan.
A principal’s device sits at the intersection of both numbers: it is the highest-value target in the household, and often the least governed.
The forensic questions are the ones we answer in our casework for any monitored device, applied to a principal’s threat model.
When a phone behaves strangely — or a family member or household staffer reports something that does not sit right — we examine the device with the owner’s authorization, check it against published indicators of compromise, and document what is and is not present.
Consumer monitoring tools and targeted commercial spyware are different problems with different checks: our guide to Stalkerware Detection and Removal covers the first, and Is Someone Monitoring My Phone? walks the self-checks a principal or family member can run safely before any examination.
Where the findings may matter legally — a divorce, a dispute with former staff, litigation — the examination is run to evidence standards from the start; see Private Digital Forensics for Individuals.
The honest limit applies at this level of the market too: a finding of “no known indicators of compromise” is not proof a device is clean, and we say so.
What the engagement produces is a documented, defensible answer, an incident-response path if something is found, and a hardening plan so the family is not relying on luck the next time.
How an engagement begins
- Confidential consultation. NDA-protected. 30-60 minutes. Direct conversation, no sales process.
- Scoped engagement. Written proposal with defined deliverables and pricing — fixed fee where it applies, hourly with milestone caps for open-ended investigations.
- Investigation and findings. Court-admissible standards. Written report you can act on.
Why this work matters
Family office cybersecurity is different: the attack surface is the principal, the household, and everyone with access to both.
Quinn holds 9 active certifications across GIAC — methodology trusted by Fortune 50 enterprises,defense contractors, and the attorneys who refer to us.
