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Executive exposure assessments: reduce the risk targeting your leadership team
Your executives are prime targets: their personal data, exposed in open sources, fuels CEO fraud, extortion and targeted attacks. BEAROPS maps what can be found about each member of your executive committee, assesses the concrete risk for the organisation, and gives you a plan to reduce that exposure. It is a specialised component of the OSINT assessment .
- Open sources only
- Strict confidentiality
- Practical reduction plan
- In French or English
An exposed executive is a way in
An attacker who knows an executive’s schedule, circle, habits and contact details can build a credible manipulation: a fake transfer order, identity theft, an extortion attempt. The executive’s personal exposure then becomes a direct risk for the organisation, both financial and reputational.
What can an attacker find about your executives?
| Category | Example of exposed data |
|---|---|
| Identity and contact details | Home addresses, phone numbers, reusable private email addresses |
| Circle and private life | Family ties, travel, habits that could be exploited for a pretext |
| Professional footprint | Roles, career history, public statements, document signatures |
| Leaks and compromises | Credentials or passwords found in public data leaks |
From data to concrete scenarios
We do not deliver a list of raw data, but scenarios: how this information, combined, makes credible a payment fraud, an extortion attempt or a social engineering attack aimed at a specific executive. Each scenario is assessed for likelihood and potential impact on the organisation.
An analysis carried out with the agreement of the executives concerned
Analysing a person’s exposure requires informing them and obtaining their agreement. The engagement is carried out with the consent of the executives concerned, in strict confidence, and covers open sources only. The results are shared with them first. No data is kept beyond the agreed purpose and period.
What do you receive at the end of the assessment?
The assessment does not stop at findings: it leads to a workshop with the executives concerned and to a reduction plan they can apply themselves, with the support of their teams.
- An exposure map by person and by role.
- The risk scenarios, assessed and prioritised.
- A debrief workshop with the executives concerned.
- A practical plan: what should be removed, restricted or monitored.
Keep exposure under control
An executive’s exposure changes: a new leak, a new public statement, a new online service. After the initial assessment, Beareye’s intelligence module makes it possible to monitor continuously for new sensitive data and to raise an alert if exposure worsens.
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Frequently asked questions
What does an executive exposure assessment involve?
It maps what an attacker can find, in open sources, about the members of your executive committee, then assesses the risk scenarios this exposure makes credible: CEO fraud, extortion, targeted social engineering. It leads to a practical reduction plan.
Are the executives concerned informed?
Yes, always. The analysis concerns people: it requires informing them and obtaining their prior agreement. The results are shared with them first, in strict confidence, and are based on open sources only.
Why focus on executives in particular?
Because they concentrate the risk. Their position gives them access to financial decisions and sensitive information, and their public exposure is often high. Personal data used against an executive can translate into a direct loss for the organisation.
What happens after the assessment?
A debrief workshop presents the scenarios and the reduction plan: removing data, adjusting privacy settings, strengthening verification procedures. Going forward, Beareye’s continuous monitoring detects new exposure as it appears.
Let’s assess the exposure of your executive committee
A BEAROPS analyst will call you back to scope the assessment, obtain the agreement of the executives concerned and define the scope, in complete confidence.