SHIELD

Shield — Press kit

What Shield is

Shield is an editorial knowledge base on operational security — digital identity protection, devices, communications, travel, and organizational practices. Built for executives, lawyers, journalists, and exposed individuals who want to understand how a risk works, not buy a product.
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Shield does no marketing. No product promotion, no affiliate links, no "10 must-have tools". Every article documents field-observed practices, sourced from primary publications — ANSSI, CNIL, ENISA, NIST, RFC — and maintained over time with a last-reviewed date.
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Author

François Aichelbaum — CEO, Privateer

François Aichelbaum runs Privateer, a technical strategy consultancy for executives. Twenty years of operations in constrained environments — M&A, litigation, geopolitics, post-incident response. Shield publishes the practices he observes and applies in the field.

Key figures

  • 28 published articles in English (French mirror edition)
  • 4 articles on the Connectivity axis
  • 5 articles on the Devices axis
  • 4 articles on the Identity axis
  • 3 articles on the Organization axis
  • 5 articles on the Reality of exposure axis
  • 7 articles on the Travel axis
  • Two languages: French (default) and English
  • Zero trackers, zero cookies, zero third-party analytics
  • Primary sources only (RFC, ANSSI, CNIL, ENISA, NIST, peer-reviewed publications)

Quotable statements

These formulations may be freely reproduced with attribution to Shield (shield.travel).

We harden safes while the front door has been open for ten years, and no one is looking through that door.
François Aichelbaum — Shield, Your data is already public
The privacy-first fiction serves everyone except you.
François Aichelbaum — Shield, Your data is already public
Shifting from "prevent the leak" to "operate in an assumed-leaked state" — this pivot transforms every other measure: prevention becomes secondary, resilience becomes primary, compartmentation becomes structural.
François Aichelbaum — Shield, Your data is already public
Operational security is not about products. It is about discipline, threat modeling, and honesty about what has already leaked.
François Aichelbaum — Shield, shield.travel

Press contact

For interview requests, quotes, expert commentary, or editorial use of Shield content:

presse@privateer.expert

Press kit download

Download press kit (.zip, EN) — bio, logos, press PDF, quotes.

All languages (.zip) — FR, EN, DE, ES, IT combined.