— VOL 1. The Principal Protection Files
Editorial-grade essays on executive protection, insider threat, family-office security, and the compliance landscape of the National Capital Region. Written personally by David Deetz. No marketing copy, no link-bait, no lists of ten things.
Editor & Sole Author
David O. Deetz, Jr.
Subjects
Protection · Investigations · Compliance
Publishing Cadence
Bi-monthly
Volume
I · 2026
The most common mistake at the C-suite level is mistaking presence for protection. A field note on the difference between a detail and a program.
Read The File— File 02. Insider Threat
Drawing on three decades of internal misconduct work, the patterns that precede the headlines — and the governance failures that miss them.
— File 03. Family Office
Why most residential security failures originate not at the gate, but in domestic staffing, vendor access, and unexamined daily routines.
— File 04. Internal Misconduct
What boards and general counsel ought to understand about misconduct inquiries before the matter that requires one arrives.
— File 05. Compliance
A quarterly read on the threat indicators most relevant to corporate operations and principal exposure across Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland.
