executive protection

Building trust with a Chinese Billionaire to protect him

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When we at WPG protect our clients, we first built trust. This is true, especially for those from another country. There will always be cultural differences and trust issues. Right now, the US is in a trade war with China, so there’s already a lack of trust that Chinese billionaires have when visiting the states.

Trust doesn’t always come easy. It builds over a while if done right. When we start interacting and working with high-net-worth individuals from China, building trust is the most critical part of our initial stages of protection. They have to trust us, and everything that we’re doing is for their best interest in protecting their privacy, confidentiality, and of course, their physical wellbeing.

Let’s face it; some foreign countries and the residents don’t like Americans. We are known for being arrogant and ignorant when it comes to other cultures. We don’t let that reputation reflect how we protect our Chinese clients. Read more

All billionaires should never get your mail at home

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When you are a high-net-worth individual, you want to VIP protect your privacy, confidentiality,  and avoid any potential security issues. It is especially true when it comes to your home and family. You never want to put your loved ones in a dangerous situation that should have been avoided. One of the best ways to enhance your security when you are a billionaire is never to get your mail at home.

When you give your address to anyone for mailing purposes, your address goes into databases where anyone can find you. People can then use this information to go to your home and cause harm to you or your loved ones.

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Luxury Protection Agency 001 Only Accepts Two Clients A Year. Why?

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Many celebrities and high net worth individuals hire untrained bodyguards to protect them from physical harm. Unfortunately, in a world full of online interactions, bodyguards just don’t cut it. You need to have agents who can protect you from harm of all kinds and offer you the necessary privacy to keep your lifestyle. Protection agencies usually only focus on the protection from physical injury, bodyguard aspect of security, but 001 takes it a couple of steps further. 

Luxury Protection agency 001 only accepts two clients a year. 

Why does 001 Only accept two clients per year?

CEO Kent Moyer of 001 is the only company that can perform quality customized executive protection. The entire process can take a year to complete, and since Kent believes in quality gold standard customer service, he wants to be able to provide his clients with the necessary resources and support.  It is creating the highest level executive protection with all those skills combined with the skills of a concierge in a luxury hotel service model. Can you imagine a protection agency that knows all the managers on the luxury brands on rodeo drive?

Privacy and Confidentiality 

The first phase with protection is privacy and confidentiality. This means taking all of a client’s personal information off of the internet, a process that can take at least a year. He then personally trains his clients what search engines to use online, what not to do, and what actions to take online that protect their privacy. This education and training process requires that the client is disciplined, which can be a phase of its own as education could take quite a long time. 

Protecting Your Lifestyle

001 customizes its protection services to fit the lifestyle and needs of their clients. Clients often lack the understanding between effective and ineffective security and mistake a single bodyguard as effective security. Unfortunately, a bodyguard, trained in getting into any physical confrontation, can’t protect a lifestyle. They will only get the client sued for their actions.  With celebrities continually using the internet to post pictures on social media, and fans and paparazzi using these photos for their own gain, celebrities misunderstand that protection should follow through in every aspect of their lives. 

Education and training are an integral part of protection and privacy. 001’s clients need to be taught how to protect themselves from threats in the world of the internet. Because of this, we can only accept up to 2 clients a year.

After the first year, most of the personal information will be off the internet, as long as the client follows our strict guidelines. Throughout that whole process, we are constantly teaching them about how to remain private on their cell phones, email, and across the internet. It can take a long time to show someone who has a significant online presence to be more private and discreet when it comes to their social media and internet use. It is a long process & 001 can only take two clients a year to make sure this is done to a luxury Gold Standard service and personal level. However, once this process is complete, our celebrity clients can rest assured knowing that they are safe from:

Paparazzi: It’s difficult for the paparazzi to take personal photos of your home when they don’t know where you live. 

Super-Fans: While you may appreciate how much your fans adore you, some could break into your house or even crack your phone to get personal information on you. 

Hackers:  If there is a connection to you and your electronic devices they can expose many things about your personal life, relationships, and business matters.

Others with ill-will: It’s difficult for many celebrities to realize that photos on their phones never secure. The cloud can be hacked, and private pictures of you could get out. This has happened to many celebrities in the past.

 

001 Is The Only Executive Protection Services That Customize Our Service To Protect Your Lifestyle

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001 is a luxury executive protection agency designed to offer custom security solutions that protect your lifestyle. Did you know? If someone ran your high profile name right now, they could get your address, phone number, and social media accounts with just a simple and easy background check.

Phase one: The assessment stage. We look at and prepare a report of the client & families online exposure & vulnerabilities

Phase two: Removing your personal information from the internet

The goal with 001 services is to remove all of your personal information from the internet. That means addresses are taken off along with phone numbers. We then set up a lifestyle of privacy for your using fake names, emails, and phone numbers. This comes with minimizing your online exposure, whether it be through social media or any information that can be obtained through a background check.

001 CEO Kent Moyer did this for himself leaving his physical address off the internet for ten years. Using fake names, emails, and phone numbers, he has designed for himself a life of privacy.

This removal process is crucial for celebrities who would like more privacy in their lives. Everything you do is online and tracking you. 001’s goal is to get you off the internet and never to use tracking search engines. Instead, 001 trains clients in using search engines like DuckDuckGo, which doesn’t track your searches & to use many other protection features to stay anonymous online.

Phase three: Customization based On Lifestyle

We have clients who have a certain way they like to operate, or, have a certain demeanor. It’s important to the client & family to know what is essential in their lifestyle to protect clearly. Our agents learn about our clients’ lifestyles, the culture of their business, and about their family.

The 001 Difference

001 is a customized approach for the protection of a high net worth individual from day one. We build a program so that we have the right personnel with similar personality traits to match the client, their family, and the culture of their corporation. It’s all built from scratch so that we can provide the best possible customer service.

An Example of Bad Protection Service

Many people think that executive protection is all about the guns with untrained bodyguards, so some agencies will send over personnel who don’t know anything about the client or their business and can come off as rough around the edges. While we believe the hard-skills are essential, our brand of executive protection is all about blending into the client’s lifestyle and providing quality gold standard customer service.

Our Executive Protection Custom Services

We at 001 have all of the soft skills as well as the hard skills and the right balance so that we can confidently send the right agent to the right client. This is a necessary process, and it does take time, which is why we only take on about two clients a year. We’re not like the other protection agencies looking to send you one bodyguard that stands emotionless in front of a door. Our agents are trained to thoroughly blend into your lifestyle, interact with high-level people skills, and delivering a gold standard of service while keeping you safe from all types of harm.

Our Agents go through a rigorous background check, psychological testing, strength testing & extensive training that is customized for each client. We are looking for certain personality traits in each of the agents; they must be positive, team players, prepared and organized, high ethics and integrity, flexible, great at communications, make common-sense decisions, can multi-task and have great communication between our company, clients, understand luxury, and our team members, be honest, & trustworthy. These are some of the characteristics of a 001 executive protection agent.

Six Security Steps High Net Worth Chinese Clients Should Take When Traveling

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Traveling out of China can be dangerous, especially if you’re going to a place you’ve never been before and haven’t gathered the necessary intelligence to ensure your safety. Here are six security steps high net worth Chinese clients should take when traveling outside of China.

1. Research and Do Intelligence

Before going to a foreign country, it’s essential to gather as much open-source intelligence as possible. You need to know the type of threats and crime in that country or city and evaluate whether you need security based on certain threat levels.

2. Stay Anonymous

Your trip should remain as anonymous as possible. One of the best ways to do this is to stay off social media. They say if you’re going out of town to never post about it on social media because that leaves you open to theft or possible random crimes. The same is especially true for billionaires traveling out of China. While you never want to tell people when you won’t be home, you also don’t want to inform them of your particular whereabouts.

If someone in the country in which you are traveling finds out that you will be at the airport at a particular time, they can easily track you on your social media pages. They can also learn your future whereabouts and predict your behavior using social media. For example, if they notice that while you’re in town that every Wednesday, you go to a specific tea shop, they can track you there and come to harm you or your loved ones.

3. Register Trips with the Government

In the US, we register trips with the State Department, so there’s probably a register to alert the Chinese Government when there’s a problem. When you’re traveling from country to country, you should always make sure to have embassy contacts, consulate contacts, and relationships with the security in those organizations.

4. Receive Alerts

You should be able to receive alerts on each city that you’re traveling to. These alerts should tell you about any crime, terrorist threats, and problems, including civil unrest, in particular cities. For example, if there has been a bomb or a bomb threat in a specific area of the city, you’ll know about it and remember to avoid that area.

5. Get Advice

Before you leave for your trip, you should get quality advice from a security professional. You can get this advice from an expert in the area you’re traveling to, or from a Chinese security professional in the same city in which you live.

It’s important to note that a Chinese security agency may not know everything going on in a US city because of how far away they are. Instead, contacting a protection agency in the area they’re traveling into, will be able to provide them with the necessary intelligence.

Even if you do register for alerts, these alerts could be months outdated, so it’s essential to contact a professional who knows real-time complications and intelligence. These experts could also serve as a backup solution in case you realize after you’ve arrived that you require executive protection.

6. Make Arrangements for Medical Response

When you’re traveling, you’ll need to find information about the nearest hospitals in case of a medical emergency. You will also need to know the best routes, and have your medical files on-hand. You can easily send these over to the hospital yourself so that, in case there is an emergency, they will have the records already there.

Digital Privacy is Crucial to Modern Executive Protection Teams

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Digital reputation management is one of those subjects that most people can’t understand until they have seen the results of an incident. The breadth and depth of the tools available to those with less than benevolent intentions in the modern age are staggering. The danger of ignoring the online world when it comes to executive security and privacy is undeniable. In some cases, it can be as bad or worse than any threat in the physical world.

While many hazards threaten only the high net worth individual’s reputation, others can create all kinds of ancillary problems, including:

  • coordinated activity threats
  • the potential of a real-world attack provoked by online activity 
  • various types of financial dangers
  • personal photo hacking

The truth is, digital reputation management, privacy and protection can’t be overlooked.

Libel

The average person doesn’t understand libel laws, nor do they understand that directly attacking someone’s reputation creates legal liability. These are among the many reasons so few are willing to show common sense or restraint in their online discourse.  By and large, the noise on the Internet isn’t worth pursuing, but in a situation where someone has a formidable platform, it can become necessary to deal with their libelous speech.

The reason this is so important is because someone with a platform is likely to come up in searches for the principal’s name. Unless it is dealt with, the libel can become eternal and will always be likely to show up in a search. Getting this information off the web and out of search engines is one of the top priorities of any competent reputation management service.

Encrypted Communications

This is considered by most security experts to be the linchpin to any digital privacy policy. It is simply not advisable to allow any transmission of identity or information from a principal to anyone else without that information being encrypted in some way.  Without encryption, the people we are trying to protect are putting themselves at risk of being hacked. An insecure network can put the person we’re protecting in danger, so we recommend any and all digital information be encrypted.

In addition to the technology, we also make sure we conceal who is speaking to whom through the use of code names and false identities. This means that even if someone is able to monitor communications among team members, they will still have considerable difficulty knowing who is involved in the conversation or what they are protecting.

Proactive

Knowing when and where trolls and other kinds of online antagonists are likely to strike is one of the most powerful ways to avoid problems before they become much harder to manage. This is a skill that is only gained through experience, but it is a valuable one. When combined with good practices in other areas, a proactive approach can yield significant dividends and prevent unnecessary expenses and wasted time with a minimum of effort.

Proactive measures combined with good security policies create a complimentary interlocking series of executive protections for both the client and the team that is cooperating to provide the security in the first place. Encryption, reputation management, being ahead of the curve when it comes to potential threats and a healthy dose of common sense can combine to dramatically reduce the risks.

What are the 5 Biggest Threats Billionaires Face when Traveling? Time for Executive Protection

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Traveling in and out of a foreign country can be dangerous, especially for billionaires and other high-net-worth individuals and their families. Here are the five biggest threats billionaires face when traveling out of China.

Possibility of Violence

It’s essential to have somebody do an intelligence report on the foreign country so that they know what the threats and concerns are. These reports can uncover everything from crime-ridden areas of a city to the possibility of violence. There could already be violence occurring in the area, so it’s important to know what places to avoid when you’re a high-net-worth individual. Violence can also occur when criminals find out that a billionaire is leaving or arriving at a particular time or place. Many people use email and post on social media about their whereabouts, but billionaires have to be mindful of who they’re telling certain information.

Possibility of Civil Unrest

Civil unrest can happen anywhere, and it’s crucial to find out if the country you’re visiting might have any issues that could potentially cause you harm. Protests can be peaceful, but sometimes they do result in violence and injury, something billionaires need to avoid at all costs.

Becoming a Target for Kidnapping and Extortion

If you’re traveling without security with your family or alone, you and your loved ones could be a target for kidnapping. Many criminals find that by kidnapping a loved one, they can earn a big payday, so it’s important to avoid situations where this might happen. Even if you are traveling with security, you will need more than one agent with you and your family to protect them from any unnecessary harm. You can quickly become a target of kidnapping or extortion if you aren’t mindful about who you tell what information, especially when it comes to your whereabouts and those of your loved ones. 

High-Level Crimes

While kidnapping and extortion are high-level crimes, there are others that you can fall victim to if you are traveling without security. Theft is just one of these crimes. When people with ill will know where you’re going, where you’re staying, and where you’ll be at all times, they can easily monitor you and steal from you. Whether its valuables or important information, you need to be aware of other times of high-level crimes that don’t physically cause you harm. The State Department might put out alerts to warn billionaires of such high-level crimes traveling to certain foreign countries.

Interactions with “Bad Guys”

Interactions with other people will happen during your travels. It’s only human nature, after all. Unfortunately, not everyone can be trusted. From those who are non-security who drive your car to people you interact with on the street, you may unknowingly tell the wrong person the right information. Even if the people you directly talk to have no bad intentions of their own, you can expect them to tell others about their talks with a billionaire, letting people, both good and bad, know information about you.

Executive Protection will help diminish the potential risks for billionaires traveling out of China so that they don’t fall victim to any type of harm.

Cybersecurity Expert Says Your Privacy is Compromised

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It’s the era of the internet in which many people resign to give up their privacy to corporations and the government so that they can go to their favorite websites or use the internet as a resource for learning. In 2018, Congress voted to allow internet service providers to collect and sell customers’ browsing data, making the internet one of the least private places in the world.

Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier recently spoke with the Gazette about government and corporate surveillance and what internet users can do to protect their privacy. 

Government Surveillance:

The government has made little strides to protect citizens’ privacy, so they basically have the right to monitor your online activity however and whenever they want.

Corporate Surveillance:

Everyone is under constant surveillance by corporations. Take Facebook for instance: Cell Phone providers collect data from Facebook and social media networks, which is then compiled, analyzed, and used by corporations to sell people products and services.

Is Corporate Surveillance Wrong?

This question can only be answered by the individual. In the 1970s, Congress did pass a law to make a particular form of subliminal advertising illegal as they believed it was a form of personalized manipulation. However, today there are many different forms of advertising, including those which personal data to create “personal” ads just for the consumer. If, under the law, Congress decides that this form of advertising is deceptive and unfair, it can then be prohibited by the Federal Trade Commission.

Europe Privacy Regulations vs United States

Americans are more eager to trust corporations over their own government, while the opposite is true for Europe so America has less-strict privacy regulations. Because of this, there are more controls over government surveillance.

How do US citizens really feel about privacy?

While US customers are resigned to giving up their privacy in exchange for using search engines and social media networks for free, they are actually concerned about their privacy but feel powerless. Having items like credit cards, cellphones, even email addresses and social media accounts is necessary in today’s world, so consumers can’t give up these necessities in order to protect their privacy.

Should We Fear The Internet?

Google knows a lot about you. Because users feel more anonymous online than in real life, people ask Google anything and everything. While Google may know a whole lot about you, other things like Facebook and even your phone company know almost the exact same amount of information. There are huge amounts of data on every single person and every corporation wants to monetize that data, so it’s important to be proactive when it comes to your cybersecurity.

How can you protect your privacy online?

While every security firm has a few tips to help you protect your privacy online, the biggest recommendation Schneier makes is to get involved in politics. Legislators have the ability to change the rules, so by getting involved in politics you can show the government what really matters.

You may think that rebelling by not carrying a credit card or choosing to not have an email may be enough to protect you, but there are numerous ways for your data to get to corporations, and many of them are unavoidable in this data-driven, internet-centric, society.

The only way to get control of your own privacy and protect yourself from the control of corporations is through the government.

Are You Vulnerable?

The World Protection Group conducts Risk Vulnerability Assessments to assess the level of cybersecurity, looks at your online exposure, and gathers protective intelligence. As celebrities and high-net worth individuals are always in the public eye, they need to protect their online privacy from those who would use that information to do them harm. For more information, please visit: https://www.001wpg.com & https://www.worldprotectiongroup.com 

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