Keys to the Kingdom
Findability precedes targetability. Chris Wingfield examines how threat actors exploit the unprotected ecosystem around a principal, and what it takes to extend meaningful friction beyond the target.
Ecosystem Targeting and the Indirect Path to the Principal
Findability precedes targetability. That principle applies to the principal, and to everyone around them such as spouses, parents, adult children, personal assistants, close associates. Each one carries a digital footprint that is searchable, cross-referenceable, and in most cases completely unmanaged and exposed. Each one is a potential path to the principal.
In Keys to the Kingdom, Chris Wingfield traces this pattern through some of the most documented targeting operations in modern history and connects it directly to the threat environment facing principals today. The mechanics have changed. The logic hasn’t. Why go through the principal’s defenses when the ecosystem offers a path around them?
The principal’s protection ends where the ecosystem’s exposure begins.
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