Discoverability
What can be found publicly about you, your family, addresses, property and connected identities.
Online Exposure Review
Understand what someone can discover about you online.
A security-led assessment of publicly discoverable information that could expose you, your family, your residence or your routines — with clear, practical recommendations to reduce unnecessary exposure.
Arrange a confidential call What the review coversA personal-security lens
Your digital footprint can reveal more than you intended.
The purpose is not reputation management or general social-media monitoring. The review considers whether information available online could help another person identify your home, understand your family connections, predict routines, impersonate you or build a picture that increases your real-world exposure.
Security relevance
Which information could assist unwanted attention, social engineering, impersonation or physical targeting.
Practical reduction
What can reasonably be removed, restricted, corrected or managed without trying to disappear from normal life.
What we assess
A structured review of relevant public exposure.
Identity and family connections
Public information that links names, family members, professional roles or other identities in ways that may increase exposure.
Residence and property exposure
Addresses, historic property listings, images and other public material that may reveal a residence, layout, access points or valuable assets.
Routines, movement and travel
Public posts or patterns that may disclose regular locations, predictable routines, travel or periods when a residence may be unoccupied.
Social-media exposure
Relevant public posts, photographs, interactions and historic material within the agreed scope.
Unwanted attention and fixation
Publicly visible hostility, persistent attention or concerning interactions that warrant closer security consideration.
Impersonation and social engineering
Information that could make it easier to imitate a client, deceive a family member or construct a credible approach.
Combined exposure
Individual pieces of information may appear harmless. The review considers how separate sources can be combined to create a more useful picture for another person.
Proportionate recommendations
Findings are prioritised by practical security significance, with actions focused on reducing meaningful exposure rather than removing information for its own sake.
The process
Clear scope. Evidence-led assessment. Practical action.
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Agree the scope
We confirm whose information is to be reviewed, the relevant platforms and any known concerns. Additional adults are included only with the appropriate authority or consent.
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Assess publicly discoverable information
Relevant open-source material is reviewed within the agreed scope. The focus is security significance, not collecting information simply because it exists.
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Correlate the findings
Information is considered both individually and in combination to identify vulnerabilities that may not be obvious from a single source.
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Written assessment
You receive a concise report setting out priority findings, why they matter and recommended actions.
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Debrief
A call to discuss the findings, answer questions and agree the most useful next steps.
What you receive
A report designed to be acted on.
The assessment distinguishes between information that is merely public and information that creates a meaningful security vulnerability. Priority findings are explained in plain English, with proportionate recommendations.
Where a finding suggests an immediate or serious concern, it is highlighted rather than buried among lower-level observations.
Online Exposure Review
£795
Remote review within an agreed scope, a written assessment and a debrief call.
If a Residence & Family Security Review is booked within 60 days and the scope overlaps, the standalone fee is credited in accordance with the service terms.
Discuss your review
About Frank McGowan
Experienced investigative judgement.
Frank McGowan served for 23 years with the Metropolitan Police Service and was a Detective Inspector, with experience spanning Serious & Organised Crime, Homicide and Counter Terrorism. He has worked independently in security, risk and crisis advisory roles since 2013.
The review is personally led by Frank and is approached as a security assessment: what information matters, how it could be used and what proportionate action should follow.
More about FrankStart with a conversation
Arrange a confidential call.
If you are concerned about what can be found about you or your family online, start with a brief enquiry. Please do not send sensitive family, address or security information in your first message.