# Circuit Magazine

> The security industry's trusted source for intelligence, analysis, and professional development — covering protection, cybersecurity, risk management, and more.

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## Posts
- [Safe By Reputation](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/safe-by-reputation): A Monaco bombing, an update on the White House plot, and Russia's pressure campaign on UK soil.
- [The Digital Footprint Audit Every Protection Program Still Skips](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/digital-footprint-audit-osint-exposure): A Repeatable OSINT Audit Closes the Digital Exposure Gap Most Protection Programs Still Miss
- [Through the Front Door](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/through-the-front-door): Fake IT staff walk into offices, a Gulf truce collapses in nine days, and an ambush opens with one call.
- [From Operator to Owner](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/start-security-company-without-burning-out): Building a Scalable Security Company Without Burning Out
- [Hired Hands](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/hired-hands): When states outsource violence, the contractor is younger than you think
- [When the Principal Won't Listen](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/managing-difficult-principal-close-protection): Managing Compliance, Ego, and Risk in High-Profile Details
- [How to Win a Retainer Contract with a UHNW Client](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/how-to-win-a-retainer-contract-with-a-uhnw-client): The buy-side checklist, the pricing math, and the pitch that turns day rates into a retainer.
- [Terms and Conditions](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/terms-and-conditions): Plus how a maritime militia started picking targets by who owns them, and what hostile surveillance looks like up close.
- [The Long Approach](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-long-approach): Plus: how a government counternarcotics operation drove cartel violence to its highest level in seven years — weeks before the World Cup opens in Guadalajara.
- [The EP Salary Benchmark 2026](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-ep-salary-benchmark-2026): What Security Professionals Are Actually Earning
- [The Surveillance Blind Spot](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-surveillance-blind-spot): Seven counter-surveillance failures that leave executive protection programs exposed to preventable attacks
- [Within Range](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/within-range): Plus: An IRGC operative had floor plans of Trump's Florida home — and what PSG's Champions League title cost Paris.
- [Point of Contact](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/point-of-contact): Plus: Iranian factional violence reaches London — and what a stay-away order cannot guarantee.
- [The Insider Blind Spot](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-insider-blind-spot): Insider threat programs built around cybersecurity are leaving physical security teams exposed. OSINT is the detection layer most organizations haven't deployed yet.
- [Inside the Proxy War](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/inside-the-proxy-war): Plus: a drone strike on a nuclear plant on the Arabian Peninsula, Ukraine's largest attack of the war, and covert Israeli bases in the Iraqi desert.
- [The Liability Gap](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-liability-gap): Why courts are pushing security agencies away from Tasers and toward a restraint device with zero lawsuits on record
- [Two Fronts: Iranian Intelligence Loses its Head](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/two-fronts-iranian-intelligence-loses-its-head): Plus: the legal challenge that could sideline the WHCD case, and a Mayfair conviction that explains how organized theft crews identify targets before they strike.
- [The Outer Ring: How Criminals Exploit Security Blind Spots](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-outer-ring-how-criminals-exploit-security-blind-spots): Plus: two men with assault rifles take $1.8 million from a Brinks truck in Philadelphia, and Wyoming rebuilds how states protect their politicians.
- [AI in Security: The Decision Has Already Been Made](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/ai-in-security-the-decision-has-already-been-made): While security teams debate AI adoption, adversaries are already weaponizing it. 
- [Inside the Perimeter: Anatomy of an Assassination Attempt](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/inside-the-perimeter-anatomy-of-an-assassination-attempt): Plus: London's parallel arson and espionage cases close in on a single proxy model, and a week of dispute-to-gunfire incidents in US civilian spaces.
- [What Jack Reacher Gets Wrong](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/what-jack-reacher-gets-wrong-unit-3877): The mass-market thriller industry has trained civilians to expect security work that doesn't exist, and why practitioners are reading something entirely different
- [System Override](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/system-override): Plus: France becomes global epicenter of crypto kidnappings, Hormuz reopens for a day, and four intelligence updates worth your attention.
- [Talks failed. Blockade begun. What next?](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/talks-failed-blockade-begun-what-next): Plus: machete attack at Grand Central, a targeted shooting inside a New Jersey Chick-fil-A, and four global incidents worth tracking.
- [The Planning Gap: When Everything That Can Go Wrong Does](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/the-planning-gap-when-everything-that-can-go-wrong-does): Plus: a US journalist kidnapped in Baghdad, a stalker attacks Lindsey Buckingham in a transition zone, and four intelligence updates worth your attention.
- [Iran Conflict: Week Three and Still No Off-Ramp](https://www.circuit-magazine.com/p/iran-conflict-week-three-and-still-no-off-ramp): Plus: what the Taliban hostage release teaches about extraction strategy, armed attack on Rihanna's LA estate, and four international incidents worth tracking