What Is VIP Protection?
VIP Protection is the coordinated use of digital and physical security intelligence to safeguard high-profile individuals, their families, and their organizations. It extends beyond traditional close protection by combining privacy defense, threat monitoring, and rapid response to both online and offline risks.
ZeroFox delivers VIP protection through a unified platform that merges digital risk protection, threat intelligence, and physical security intelligence (PSI). The result is real-time visibility, analyst-validated alerts, and proactive safeguards that keep leaders safe wherever they go.
Why VIP Protection Is Important for Organizations
High-profile leaders and public figures represent the face of their organizations. That visibility attracts attention. And sometimes that attention is from those with malicious intent. From doxxing and impersonation to travel risks, protests, and physical targeting, threats now span every channel.
Traditional protection focused solely on physical safety can no longer keep up. ZeroFox enables people-first security, combining digital monitoring, physical threat intelligence, and 24/7 analyst support to detect, validate, and mitigate risks before they escalate.
Protect your VIPs like you protect your institution. Because reputation and safety go hand in hand.
How it Works
VIP Protection works by combining continuous monitoring, real-time intelligence, and coordinated disruption. It gives security teams full visibility into digital and physical threats that could impact high-profile individuals.
- Discover: Monitor digital, social, and physical environments for threats to VIPs, including impersonations, data leaks, doxxing, extremist chatter, and event-specific risk indicators.
- Validate: Use AI-driven triage and human analyst review to assess credibility, proximity, and severity. Alerts are enriched with contextual intelligence and delivered in real time.
- Disrupt: Take swift action through coordinated takedowns, privacy protection services, and physical threat response via the ZeroFox PSI Mobile App and PSOC.
This intelligence-driven workflow empowers organizations to identify and neutralize risks faster, keeping VIPs and their families out of harm’s way.
VIP Protection: Real-World Scenario
High-profile individuals are often targeted through digital exposure that turns physical—like leaked travel details or social posts revealing event locations.
In one recent VIP Protection case, ZeroFox was able to uncover a threat to a board member, and give the organization the intelligence they needed to make strategic changes:
A global clothing brand had been the target of activist campaigns. But when ZeroFox uncovered plans for a protest at a board member’s home, the stakes escalated. Acting fast, ZeroFox’s Protective Intelligence team launched deep-dive investigations into the event organizer, the protest itself, and potential risks to the executive. Armed with these insights, the company made a strategic decision to change its sourcing practices. This prompted the organizers to cancel the protest just one day before it was set to happen, averting a potential physical threat.
How ZeroFox Provides Protection
ZeroFox combines threat intelligence, digital risk protection, and physical security monitoring to protect VIPs across every domain.
- Digital & Physical Convergence: Unified visibility across surface, deep, and dark web channels as well as real-world environments.
- Privacy Defense: PII removal services and rapid response to doxxing, impersonation, and executive-level impersonation campaigns.
- Analyst-Validated Intelligence: 24/7 monitoring and correlation by expert analysts in the ZeroFox Intelligence Center and PSOC.
- Real-Time Alerts & Mobile Access: The PSI Mobile App delivers location-based alerts and guidance directly to protection teams.
- Global Disruption Capability: In-house takedowns and partnerships with 80+ global platforms and ISPs enable swift removal of malicious content.
ZeroFox delivers the intelligence, visibility, and confidence required to protect those who represent your brand.
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Frequently asked questions
While the terms are often used interchangeably, VIP Protection typically focuses on high-profile individuals such as board members, celebrities, or public figures. Executive Protection refers to organizational leaders. Both rely on real-time intelligence and unified security coverage.