When the Digital World Turns Physical: The Expanding Role of Threat Intelligence in Executive Protection

This report argues that cyber and physical risks are converging, heightening threats to executives through doxxing, swatting, AI-driven impersonation, and deepfake-enabled BEC, and recommends unifying cyber, physical, and geopolitical intelligence to enable predictive protection. It highlights current adoption trends, persistent integration and context gaps, and proposes composite risk scoring and automated alerting to align executive protection with real-time threat signals—positioning Recorded Future’s platform as an enabler for operationalizing converged, intelligence-led security.