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Cyber-intelligence glossary

Principal scan

Principal scan (LeakTrace methodology)

LeakTrace’s baseline intelligence scan covering the principal individual across breach, dark-web, reputation, impersonation, and data-broker surfaces.

Definition

A principal scan is LeakTrace’s baseline intelligence engagement scoped to a single individual — typically a family-office principal, RIA-firm principal, agency principal, or protected executive. Coverage includes: credential exposure across breach registries, dark-web marketplace mentions, named-search reputation surface across Google and Bing, platform impersonation detection on Meta, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, data-broker profile aggregation across 200+ US and Canadian brokers, and property or public-holdings correlation from public records. The scan is completed inside 72 hours from NDA signature and delivered as findings in a live intelligence dashboard plus institutional-grade reports (master audit briefing 40-60 pages, chain-of-custody evidence file, statutory mapping). A principal scan is the entry-point deliverable for LeakTrace family-office and executive-protection engagements; household and advisor-tenant coverage extends outward from that baseline under written consent.

Why it matters

Everything an operator would map before an attack on a principal, mapped by LeakTrace first, with the remediation plan attached. The principal scan is the signature 72-hour engagement.

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Advisor tenant
A professional advisor firm (CPA, attorney, wealth manager, insurance broker, custodian, trustee) that holds sensitive information or wire authority on behalf of a principal.
Chain of custody
A documented, tamper-evident record of who collected a piece of digital evidence, when, how, and every handler who touched it thereafter — required for the evidence to be admissible in civil discovery, litigation, or insurance claims.
Credential exposure
The presence of a person’s username, email address, or password in a public or dark-web breach database.
Discovery call
Mutual NDA on request. Reply within one business day.
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