What Can Be Found About You in 10 Minutes or Less?
What Can Be Found About You in 10 Minutes or Less?
Imagine a stranger sitting at a laptop with nothing more than your name, a city, or an email address. In less than 10 minutes, they could know where you live, who your family is, where you work, and when you’re likely to be out of town. This isn’t science fiction — it’s OSINT.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of collecting publicly available information to form an accurate profile of a person or business. It’s legal, fast, and shockingly effective — and most people have no idea how exposed they already are.
What Can Be Found — Fast
When we conduct vulnerability scans for executives, founders, and families, we often find:
Home addresses via property tax records or online real estate listings
Phone numbers and emails from marketing data dumps and forgotten accounts
Family member profiles, including photos and schedules from social media
Travel patterns revealed through Instagram, LinkedIn, or flight check-ins
Professional associations that link personal and corporate accounts
The result? A digital blueprint that a bad actor can exploit to locate, impersonate, or even target you.
Why It Matters for Executives and Families
You don’t have to be famous to be a target — just visible and valuable.
Executives are vulnerable to spear-phishing, reputation sabotage, and physical tracking
Founders often unintentionally link their business and personal lives online
Families are exposed through shared devices, public school listings, and social media
In today’s threat landscape, visibility is liability.
How to Start Protecting Yourself
You don’t need to disappear — you need to control the narrative of your online presence. Here are three steps you can take today:
Google yourself and your company — note every surprising result
Audit your social media privacy settings — especially for family accounts
Download our free guide: How You Look From the Outside In — it shows what someone can find on you and what to do next
Final Thoughts
If someone with intent wanted to build a profile on you, they’d start with OSINT. At Edge Point Group, we start there too — but we use it to protect you, not exploit you.
This is real. This is fast. And this is fixable.
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