Client-side exposure intelligence under your fiduciary umbrella.
This is not an add-on service. It is a client-side diligence layer your custodian's enhanced due diligence framework already expects.
White-label exposure intelligence you deliver as your own service. Your high-net-worth clients carry personal exposure (wire fraud vectors, deepfake extortion material, family and property intelligence) that no corporate cyber assessment covers. We run the intelligence engine. You keep the relationship, the fiduciary posture, and the differentiation.
Cybercriminals move at AI speed. Your monitoring should too.
Cybercriminals now use AI too. Phishing emails generate in bulk. Deepfake impersonation targets high-net-worth clients and their families. Stolen breach data gets scraped and indexed within hours of a leak. Target lists build themselves.
The advisor relationship is where the exposure turns into client harm.
A high-net-worth individual and their immediate family carry several attack vectors a standard corporate cyber assessment never surfaces. The advisor's inbox, phone line, and channel of trust is where those vectors first cross into a wire, a decision, or a family safety event. Client harm starts on the advisor's surface, not the client's.
How the wealth-manager partnership works.
Signed in a single call. Documented client-side cyber posture that materially strengthens your Regulation S-P and Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization examination stance, without adding operational lift. LeakTrace runs the intelligence engine; you own the client relationship, choose the engagement model, and set client-facing pricing (or take a documented referral fee on retail). Clients see the delivery through your brand or through LeakTrace directly, whichever you prefer.
Lightweight partnership agreement
Either referral kickback (LeakTrace prices at retail, documented fee per active client) or white-label wholesale (advisor sets retail, brand on deliverable). Signed in a single call. No complex integration.
Client onboarding through your channel
Advisor forwards client + consent to LeakTrace. First exposure brief inside one business day. Delivery through advisor-branded channel or direct LeakTrace channel, whichever you prefer.
Continuous monitoring across client + family
Daily sweeps across breach databases, data broker directories, deepfake / voice-clone surfaces, court filings, and financial-record aggregators. Family members and household staff included on request. Alerts routed to advisor and client through the channels you specify.
Removal coordination on findings, not just alerts
Analyst desk coordinates removal efforts via the applicable lawful mechanism. DMCA notice for copyright, platform ToS reports for harassment or impersonation, data broker opt-out requests, legal-notice coordination with the client's counsel. Continuous re-monitoring for reappearance; renewed removal requests when content resurfaces. This is what turns the offering from "we tell you" into "we coordinate the response", the differentiator against competing monitoring-only products.
Documented cyber posture at the advisor level
Advisor holds documented evidence of client-side cyber posture across every enrolled relationship. Materially strengthens the advisor's own regulatory posture at Regulation S-P and Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization examinations without adding operational lift.
Two engagement models.
You refer, LeakTrace prices + delivers, you take a documented kickback.
Simplest. LeakTrace sets retail. Advisor introduces to client. Documented referral fee per active client. Zero operational lift for the advisor beyond introduction. Suitable for advisors testing the model before committing operationally.
Your firm's brand on the deliverable. You set retail. LeakTrace at wholesale.
Advisor prices to their clients however they choose (bundle with concierge tier, add to existing advisor fees, position as differentiated service). Reporting is advisor-branded. LeakTrace is the invisible intelligence layer.
Why wealth managers with cyber insurance still need this.
Cyber insurance pays claims after an incident. Underwriters price it, carriers process it. Insurance manages the financial aftermath of a breach.
What it doesn't do:
- Prevent the incident from happening (only mitigates the cost)
- Give you client-facing intelligence you can show high-net-worth prospects during pitch
- Map your existing high-net-worth client household exposure surface before a breach
- Provide differentiation vs competing RIAs pitching the same book
- Answer the SEC Regulation S-P questions about “reasonable safeguards”
What this protects, in dollars.
The average RIA firm has $200M to $2B assets under management. A single high-net-worth client lost to a wire-fraud incident on their side (not yours) can trigger three to seven other client departures via reputation contagion. Assets-under-management outflow after a public data-exposure incident averages 15 to 40 percent within twelve months (Cerulli 2024).
For a mid-sized RIA with $500M assets under management:
What wealth managers get by running this.
The intelligence infrastructure behind every wealth-manager engagement
LeakTrace is not a consultancy that reads about breaches. It is intelligence infrastructure that continuously monitors the exposure surface itself, correlates findings across data sources, and packages evidence in a form your compliance officer, custodian, and clients can act on. Below is what runs under the hood for every enrolled client household and advisor tenant.
Continuous multi-source monitoring
Advisor-tenant and household technical attribution
Institutional-grade evidence and correlation
Delivery rhythm and escalation
Questions wealth managers ask before signing.
How does this differ from what our custodian's security team already does?
Custodian security protects the custody rail. Fidelity, Schwab, Pershing, Raymond James, and RBC Investor Services all run credential monitoring, wire-verification workflow, and account-access controls on the assets held on their platform. That is custodian-side scope. LeakTrace covers what happens before the wire ever hits the custodian: client household exposure, advisor tenant posture (CPA, attorney, family office), and the impersonation infrastructure attackers use to spoof either side of your channel. Different threat model, different scope, and complementary to the custodian layer.
What if our clients already carry cyber insurance individually?
Cyber insurance pays claims after the incident. It does not prevent the wire from going out, and it does not give the advisor documented pre-incident diligence to show a custodian audit or an insurance renewal. Underwriters for household high-net-worth cyber lines increasingly ask whether the wealth manager runs client-side exposure diligence. Firms that can point to LeakTrace evidence report faster renewals and better retention. LeakTrace gives underwriters documented client-side diligence; carriers increasingly reward that in pricing.
How does per-client scanning intersect with our RIA compliance posture?
SEC Regulation S-P as amended in 2024 requires registered investment advisers to maintain a written information security program with reasonable safeguards for client information. The 2024 amendments specifically raised the bar for advisor-side safeguards on client-adjacent surfaces, not just internal firm systems. Documented client-side exposure diligence with chain-of-custody evidence maps directly to the Regulation S-P written information security program requirement and to the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization cybersecurity guidance. LeakTrace deliverables are packaged specifically to sit inside your written information security program file for the next examination.
Do we bill this to the firm, pass through to clients, or bundle into AUM?
All three patterns work; the choice is yours. Firms billing the LeakTrace engagement as an operating compliance expense treat it the same way they treat their written information security program cost. Firms passing through to clients typically bundle it into the concierge tier or private-client service level. Firms bundling into AUM absorb the cost against the fee schedule and use client-side diligence as a differentiator against competing firms that cannot offer it. We work with all three structures and do not require you to commit to one at signing.
What do we actually receive?
Two deliverables: continuous intelligence briefings for your firm + institutional reports for the artifacts of record your compliance file, custodian, and examiners require.
Dashboard: per-household exposure profiles, findings ledger, chain-of-custody evidence on every finding, statutory framework tags, weekly firm briefing, priority analyst line answered inside four business hours.
Reports: master exposure audit (40–60 pages per enrolled household), infrastructure evidence file with technical attribution and chain-of-custody screenshots, credential exposure register mapped to breach source, 2-page executive summary for client or custodian handoff, statutory mapping linking findings to Regulation S-P, Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization guidance, PIPEDA, and applicable state privacy law. Delivered to the secure firm portal under mutual NDA in 72 hours; un-branded on request.
How LeakTrace compares to what your firm already runs.
| Coverage area | Doing nothing | Custodian security layer | Cyber insurance | LeakTrace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-client household exposure scan | ×Not covered | ×Custodian scope only | ×Post-incident only | ✓Per client, 72h |
| Advisor-tenant DMARC posture (CPA, attorney) | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ✓Continuous |
| Wire-fraud precursor sweep | ×Not covered | Wire verification only | ×Not covered | ✓Pre-wire |
| Breach database correlation | ×Not covered | Custodian creds only | Post-claim only | ✓Continuous |
| Dark-web marketplace monitoring | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ✓Weekly |
| Principal named-search reputation baseline | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ✓Documented |
| Insurance claim documentation | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | Own claim only | ✓Chain-of-custody |
| Regulation S-P audit evidence | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ×Not covered | ✓Mapped & filed |
Every wealth-manager engagement is a living portal, not a one-time report.
The moment your mutual NDA is signed, your firm gets a private LeakTrace portal that tracks every client household under continuous monitoring. The portal is where the work lives. The PDF exports are for compliance, custodian audits, and RIA documentation.
Full client-household dashboard
Every household under monitoring, exposure-scored, findings ranked by severity, sorted by last activity.
Per-household deep dive
Fifteen continuous surveillance modules per household. Findings feed. Actions coordinated. Advisor-tenant coverage tracked. Chain-of-custody on every finding.
Continuous intelligence pipeline
Breach correlation, dark-web marketplace surveillance, code and paste-site sweeps, DNS and SSL exposure scan, platform mention tracking.
Findings ledger
Every credential exposure, dark-web listing, defamation surface, and wire-fraud precursor logged with timestamp and evidentiary bundle.
Deliverable artifacts
PDF exports for compliance officer, custodian diligence, insurance renewal, or counsel packaging.
Briefing walk-through happens during the discovery call under mutual NDA. Coverage begins on your client households within 72 hours of signature.
Findings that typically surface across a wealth manager book.
The following are illustrative examples of the exposure patterns LeakTrace is engineered to surface across wealth management, family office, and private banking mandates. Real engagement details will only be shared under NDA once you become a client, and only about your own engagement.
Registered investment adviser, 30 high-net-worth client households, average $8M each
Multi-generational wealth advisor, 12 ultra-high-net-worth families, $500M assets under management
Private banker, post-liquidity-event clientele across top-tier book
Your clients are already asking Claude the questions they will ask you.
CNBC reported in July 2026 that Northern Trust sees about half of prospective wealth clients using large language models to formulate advisor questions before their first meeting. WE Family Offices reports clients openly discussing feeding portfolio recommendations into personal AI accounts. Every prompt those clients type is a data exposure surface your firm's IT posture does not cover. ,CNBC, Inside Wealth, July 2026.
AI notetakers on personal accounts capture your advisory calls.
Trust and portfolio documents pasted into consumer chatbots.
Comparison prompts leak your firm's specific advice.
LeakTrace monitors public content, cached archives, code repositories, and paste sites for household-name mentions traceable to AI-adjacent leakage. Every finding is documented with chain-of-custody evidence, ready for handoff to counsel, compliance, or the affected client.
What happens from signature to first delivery.
The pre-engagement diligence runs on a 72-hour clock from mutual NDA signature. You have the brief before the next quarterly custodian review, insurance renewal, or client conversation. Ongoing monitoring engagements shift into continuous cadence from hour 72 forward across every enrolled client household.
NDA signed. Scoped intake questionnaire returned covering firm profile, client household enrollment list, advisor tenant map, and custodian relationship. Encrypted-at-rest identifier vault provisioned. No client data touches disk before this step.
Breach database correlation across enrolled principals and household members. Dark-web marketplace surveillance. Data broker aggregation sweep. Advisor-tenant DMARC and infrastructure posture verification. Platform mention tracking initialized on principal named surfaces.
Findings de-duplicated across sources. False positives eliminated. Analyst review. Chain-of-custody screenshots and evidence bundle packaged. Statutory framework mapping applied (Regulation S-P, Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, PIPEDA, state privacy law).
Master audit report (40–60 pages per enrolled household) delivered to the secure firm briefing surface, alongside the first briefing landing for each household. Executive briefing call scheduled with the firm principal + compliance officer. Recommended actions ranked by severity with chain-of-custody evidence attached to every finding.
Ongoing monitoring engagements shift to continuous alerting plus weekly deep-scan reports across every enrolled household. Priority analyst line with four-hour response on urgent flags including in-flight wire verification. Quarterly re-baseline briefings.
What we can and cannot remove.
LeakTrace does not promise to make everything disappear. Some categories of exposure can be facilitated for removal through documented channels. Others can be documented and escalated to your compliance officer, custodian coordination liaison, or client counsel but cannot be unilaterally removed. A small set cannot be removed at all. This page tells you which is which before you engage.
- Data broker profile removals across 200+ US and Canadian data brokers, structured requests with monthly re-checks for respawn on every enrolled household member
- Platform impersonation account-removal requests on Meta, X, LinkedIn, YouTube via documented trust and safety reports with escalation paths, specifically targeting principal and family-member impersonation vectors
- Search engine delisting requests to Google and Bing for principal personal-data exposure, outdated financial disclosures, and doxxing pages
- Advisor-tenant DMARC misconfiguration remediation coordination with the tenant firm's IT or managed service provider
- Wire-transfer verification protocol coordination with the custodian on flagged in-flight transfers, promptly via priority analyst line
- Defamation and false-claim websites targeting firm principals or clients, hosted offshore or under anonymous registration, coordinated with your compliance officer and legal counsel for cease and desist
- Dark-web marketplace listings offering fabricated identity documents or leaked client financial statements, tracked with chain-of-custody screenshots for law-enforcement referral through counsel
- Coordinated reputation attack campaigns across multiple platforms targeting a principal or a firm partner, mapped to identify orchestration patterns
- Foreign-jurisdiction hosted content where removal requires letters rogatory or MLAT process, packaged with counsel-ready documentation
- Custodian enhanced due diligence coordination on flagged clients where the custodian requires elevated attestation from the advisor
- Breach database entries where the data is already public. We monitor for spread and alert on new appearances or fresh dumps
- Content hosted by registrars that refuse takedown requests under any circumstance
- Anything requiring unauthorized access, hacking, or misrepresentation to third parties
- Legal filings such as lawsuits, injunctions, or subpoenas. We coordinate with your counsel; we do not practice law
- Payment to threat actors in exchange for removal. This is not a service we offer under any circumstance
Defamation sites, fake fund-fraud allegations, and reputation attack infrastructure.
The pattern is well documented. A single-purpose website appears under an anonymous WHOIS, hosted in a jurisdiction with weak defamation law, publishing fabricated or partially-true allegations against a specific wealth manager, family office principal, or RIA firm partner. It ranks quickly on personal-name search. Prospective and existing clients see it within hours. AUM retention conversations become substantially harder overnight.
These sites are engineered to be difficult to remove. LeakTrace does not remove them unilaterally. What we do is see them first, document everything, and give your compliance officer and counsel the technical evidence needed to act before the next custodian audit or client review.
Detect
Continuous monitoring for new domain registrations matching partner names, firm names, common variations, and known slander patterns. Search-index scraping for indexed pages appearing on principal named queries. Social-platform mention tracking for coordinated posting behavior across Reddit, X, and industry forums.
Attribute
Technical forensics on hosting infrastructure, registrar patterns, content management fingerprints, cross-site content overlap, and payment infrastructure. Where a coordinated campaign exists, we map the operator to a real-world identity or connected commercial motive.
Document
Timestamped screenshots, WHOIS captures, hosting records, and cross-jurisdictional infrastructure notes packaged as an evidentiary bundle admissible in defamation proceedings and defensible on custodian enhanced due diligence review.
Escalate
Coordinated response with your firm's compliance officer and legal counsel. Registrar abuse complaints. Search engine delisting requests where personal data is present. Platform trust and safety escalations on connected accounts. Custodian coordination where the allegation triggers elevated diligence.
Full compliance documentation available on request during commercial diligence.
One wealth manager conversation typically maps to ten to fifty enrolled client households downstream. If you carry fiduciary responsibility over client household exposure, wire-fraud interception, or advisor-tenant posture across your book, this is a conversation worth having.
Wealth managers, family offices, private banks, RIA firms, and MFOs. New engagements considered on referral from private banks, family-office consultants, or existing counsel. Direct inbound welcome under mutual NDA. No pitch deck required.