The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 23 domestic and 17 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of March 2025. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international celebrity, or local city…
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 23 domestic and 13 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of February 2025. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international celebrity, or local city…
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 22 domestic and 22 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of January 2025. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international celebrity, or local city…
In 2024, TorchStone recorded 462 incidents threatening high-profile individuals due to their status. While 2024 was the first full calendar year that TorchStone published monthly EP reports, trends remained consistent with 2023. We tracked 303 incidents from May to December 2023, with an average of 38 incidents per month, compared to an average of 39…
Executive Protection Report December 2024 catalogs incidents TorchStone captures through open-source searches relevant to executive protection
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 21 domestic and 13 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of November 2024. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international movie star, or local…
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 22 domestic and 9 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of October 2024. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international movie star, or local…
Hybrid warfare uses a suite of shadowy methods to attack an adversary that falls short of a conventional military conflict. Criminal proxies can be used in most methods of hybrid warfare to provide a degree of plausible deniability. There is also very little potential for blow-back against the aggressor country if a criminal they hired…
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 18 domestic and 11 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of September 2024. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international movie star, or local…
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 22 domestic and 14 international security incidents or updates to prior incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of August 2024. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international movie star, or local…
The TorchStone Executive Protection Report tracked 24 domestic and 12 international security incidents impacting high-profile individuals during the month of July 2024. TorchStone Global believes that broader situational awareness and intelligence are key to providing quality executive protection—whether the principal is a Fortune 500 CEO, international movie star, or local city council member.
TorchStone has documented 231 incidents targeting high profile individuals around the world over the first six months of 2024. Threats so far this year have been defined by national elections, protest over the Israel-Palestine conflict, and evolving climate change protest tactics.
