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The Defuse Podcast: Where Experts Defuse Real ThreatsAuthor: Philip Grindell MSc CSyP
When the threats are real and the stakes are high what actually works?Right now, as you're reading this, someone's watching your family, your business rivals are digging through your digital history, and a disgruntled employee knows exactly where your vulnerabilities are. While you're focused on your day job, they're building a plan.This podcast exists because ignoring threats doesn't make them disappear.I'm Philip Grindell former Scotland Yard detective, behavioural threat specialist, and author of Personal Threat Management. After Jo Cox MP was murdered, I was tasked with creating Parliament's specialist threat assessment team. I've spent 35 years stopping people who wanted to hurt prominent individuals, from MPs to royalty to the ultra-wealthy.What You'll Get From ListeningYou'll recognise the warning signs everyone else misses. That "helpful" new employee asking odd questions. The photographer at three different family events. The online critic whose interest feels too personal.You'll understand how dangerous people operate. The people planning to harm you treat you like a research project cataloguing your habits, weaknesses, and blind spots whilst you're oblivious.You'll know what to do when a crisis hits. Not theory actual steps. How to control the narrative when your reputation's under attack. When to stay silent and when silence destroys you.You'll discover what's already out there about you. Right now, strangers can map your life using tools you've never heard of.What You'll HearStraight-talking conversations with ex-FBI agents who've tracked serial killers, digital investigators who can find anyone online, crisis managers who've saved billion-pound reputations, and psychologists who understand exactly how fixated individuals think.Topics include stalking, fixated individuals, insider threats, protective intelligence, reputation management, OSINT, digital vulnerability, and crisis leadership.These aren't interviews they're operational briefings. Real cases, Language: en-gb Genres: Education, Self-Improvement, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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When Cyber Risk Becomes Personal with Lucy Burnford
Monday, 12 January, 2026
Send us a textIn this episode of The Defuse Podcast, Philip Grindell is joined by Lucy Burnford, founder of coc00n, a specialist cyber security firm protecting high-risk individuals, families, and senior leaders from targeted digital threats.Lucy works at the sharp end of personal cyber risk, where phones, messages and trusted relationships are often the way in. coc00n focuses on people rather than systems, securing personal devices, private digital lives, and the grey area where work and home overlap. Their team includes former UK government cyber specialists who once protected sensitive national assets and now apply that experience to private clients.The conversation explores how cyber threats really start, why successful people often underestimate personal risk, and how digital compromise can quickly turn into reputational, psychological, or real-world harm.This is a grounded discussion about judgement, habits, and trust — and what genuinely helps people feel safer.BioLucy Burnford, Chief Executive Officer, coc00nLucy is the CEO at coc00n. She works with a team of former GCHQ cyber security and digital privacy experts to deliver proactive, unrivalled cyber security with absolute discretion and privacy. She works closely with high value clients, and their advisors, to bridge the gap between technical requirements and practical solutions, combining her ability to understand consumers of premium services alongside cyber expertise.https://coc00n.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyburnford/Support the showSubscribe to 'Defuse News', our weekly update of the week's events on our website. Follow me on X /Twitter Connect with me on LinkedIn
