ObscureIQ | How It Fits Together
The firm · How it fits together

Three services.
The instruments behind them.

One practice, digital executive protection, delivered through three services. The names you will see in our work, and how they connect. Every box and every term links to its page.

Glossary · A to Z

Every name,
in a line or two.

Adversary Watch

Module · ThreatWatch

A standing watch on identified actors. Named actors stay under observation, on a record counsel can use.

Breach Risk Index

Measurement

How much risk a circulating data breach poses to the people in it. Every breach record we publish carries a score.

Circle of Trust

Coverage

Coverage extended to the people close to you: family, household and the people an adversary would route through.

CODEX

Database

Our index of the entities that actually hold consumer data, an order of magnitude beyond any public broker list. Removals run against it.

COMMAND

Subscription

The subscription: the CORGI Morning Brief every morning, new Command Briefs every week, and the full collection from day one.

Command Briefs

Publication

Numbered intelligence briefs, one question each, in two forms: a Principal Brief for the decision and an Analyst Brief for the evidence.

CORGI Morning Brief

Daily brief

A one-page morning brief designed on the President's Daily Brief, built entirely from open sources.

Digital executive protection

The category

Protecting individuals by limiting the exposure and exploitation of information about them. Four dimensions: data exposure, threat intelligence, narrative intelligence, and intervention and verification. We deliver it through Obscurity DEP, ThreatWatch and Groundtruth.

Event Monitoring

Module · ThreatWatch

Raised coverage around a moment: an appearance, a filing, a trip. Raised for the window, then stood down.

Exposure Discovery

Obscurity · Movement one

The audit that maps what an adversary can find about you and how they could use it, and sets your Threat Surface Index. Every program starts here.

Exposure Pathways

Interactive

A companion to CB-160. Cut the clues and the records, and see whether the family home is still reachable.

Exposure Reduction

Obscurity · Movement two

Removal at the source, suppression where needed, and ongoing verification. Removals run against CODEX, and scanning continues through the year, because a record that drops from one surface returns on another.

Groundtruth

Service

Groundtruth Investigations: analyst-led investigation and attribution, the investigative part of our digital executive protection. Available as a one-time investigation or a retainer.

Hostility Index

Measurement

A free read on how much hostile attention your life generates, in two scores: Exposure and Pressure.

Human Data Perimeter

For organizations

Employee personal data treated as a threat surface, and reduced tier by tier.

Intelligence Library

Publication

Every brief, control and article we publish, searchable, each with a public summary.

NarrativeWatch

Module · ThreatWatch · Beta

How a story about you forms, where it is likely to go, and what is moving near you before it arrives. In beta.

Obscurity

Service

Obscurity DEP, where our digital executive protection starts. We find what an adversary can find, remove it at the source, and keep it gone.

Tactical Privacy Training

Program

The habits that stop your threat surface from growing back. The part only you can hold down.

Threat Surface Index

Measurement

One number for what an adversary can find about you and what is already pointed at it. The audit sets it. The work moves it.

ThreatWatch

Service

Continuous threat intelligence, the part of our digital executive protection that watches what cannot be removed. Analysts find what automation misses and bring you the signals that matter, early.

Questions people ask

Short answers,
in plain words.

What is Obscurity?

Obscurity, or Obscurity DEP, is where ObscureIQ's digital executive protection starts. It begins with an Exposure Discovery audit of what an adversary can find about you, removes what can be removed at the source, suppresses what cannot, and keeps finding and reducing exposure through the year.

What is ThreatWatch?

ThreatWatch is ObscureIQ's continuous threat intelligence service, the part of its digital executive protection that watches what cannot be removed. Analysts monitor social platforms, forums, the deep and dark web and forming narratives for hostile signals about you, and report what changed, how confident they are, and what to do. Success is measured by how early you know.

What is Groundtruth?

Groundtruth Investigations is ObscureIQ's analyst-led investigation and attribution service, the investigative part of its digital executive protection: who is behind a tweet, a narrative or a hostile act, and what they can do. It is available as a one-time investigation or a retainer.

What is digital executive protection?

Digital executive protection (DEP) is the practice of protecting individuals by limiting the exposure and exploitation of information about them. It combines personal data protection, threat intelligence and narrative analysis to reduce how easily a person can be identified, located, impersonated, manipulated or harmed. ObscureIQ delivers it through three services: Obscurity DEP, ThreatWatch and Groundtruth.

What is CODEX?

CODEX is ObscureIQ's index of the entities that actually hold consumer data, an order of magnitude beyond any public data broker list. Exposure reduction runs against it.

What is the Threat Surface Index?

The Threat Surface Index is a single score for what an adversary can find about a person and what is already pointed at them. An Exposure Discovery audit sets it, the work moves it, and an annual refresh states the difference.

What is the Hostility Index?

The Hostility Index is a free, anonymous survey that measures how much hostile attention a person's life generates, in two scores: Exposure, what makes you worth targeting, and Pressure, what is already happening.

What is the Breach Risk Index?

The Breach Risk Index scores how much risk a circulating data breach poses to the people whose records are in it. ObscureIQ publishes a score with every breach record.

What is Circle of Trust coverage?

Circle of Trust coverage extends protection to the people close to a client, such as family, household staff and assistants, because an adversary often reaches a person through the people around them.

What is COMMAND?

COMMAND is ObscureIQ's intelligence subscription: the CORGI Morning Brief every morning, designed on the President's Daily Brief and built from open sources, plus new Command Briefs every week.

Not sure which of these you need?

Most clients start with an Exposure Discovery audit. The first call is free, takes 30 minutes, and tells you which parts of this map apply to you.

Hard to find.
Hard to hurt.