
The Defuse Podcast: Beyond Security - The Science of Feeling Safer
🔊 The Defuse Podcast: Personal Threat Management for High-Risk Lives
How do you keep high-profile people safe in a world of escalating threats, online hostility, and real-world harm?
Hosted by Philip Grindell, former Scotland Yard detective and author of Personal Threat Management: The Practitioner’s Guide to Keeping Clients Safer, The Defuse Podcast goes behind the scenes of elite protective strategies used to safeguard prominent individuals, executives, and private clients.
Each episode features candid, expert-led conversations on topics including:
- Stalking, fixated threats, and insider risk
- Protective intelligence and behavioural profiling
- Workplace violence and reputational harm
- Digital vulnerability, doxxing, and OSINT
- Crisis leadership and executive resilience
Whether you're a security professional, family office advisor, C-suite leader, or someone responsible for protecting others, this podcast will give you real-world insight into what works — and what doesn't — when lives and reputations are on the line.
Subscribe now and learn how to manage threats before they become crises.
The Defuse Podcast: Beyond Security - The Science of Feeling Safer
Social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting with Benjamin Barrontine
The Defuse Podcast with Benjamin Barrontine – Social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting.
In an increasingly digital age staying safe requires an understanding of how adversaries operate in order to build an operational system that works.
In this podcast we hear from an expert who has used social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting offensively when targeting enemy forces and terrorists in covert combat operations and now uses his expertise defensively when protecting his global clients.
Benjamin Barrontine spent 15 years in the US military. He initially served in the infantry soldier before moving into the Special Forces specialising in intelligence, social engineering, digital exploitation and cyber targeting. He's has also worked with the NSA National Security Agency, the US Marshals Service, and NASA.
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