Cybersecurity for athletes and creators
Your name is your business. We protect what that business runs on.
Accounts, identity, devices, and reputation — for professional and collegiate athletes, established creators and influencers, their families, and the people who represent them.
What we do
Incident response
A locked-out channel, a hijacked account, a stolen phone, an extortion demand, a wire in motion. We contain it, determine what happened, and hand you a written finding you can act on.
Exposure reduction
Home address, family, routine, and credentials are usually public before anything goes wrong. We find what's exposed and close it down.
Ongoing protection
Monitoring, impersonation takedowns, and priority intake on retainer — so the next incident is smaller and someone already knows the file.
How we work
Respond
Containment inside the first day. Evidence preserved before platforms age it out.
Determine
How they got in, what they reached, whether they're still there. A written report inside a week.
Remediate
We close the specific door that was used — not a generic checklist — then keep watching it.
The mechanics differ. An athlete's exposure runs through a team, an agent, and a morals clause. A creator's runs through the platform account that is the business itself. The response discipline is the same.
We work through representation. Engagements are scoped with the agent, manager, or business manager who holds the relationship, and the reporting goes to whoever is accountable for it. Delivery is remote and built around the assumption that the client has no time.
Who we work with
Professional and collegiate athletes.
Established creators and influencers.
Families and household members.
Agencies, managers, collectives, and talent networks.
How we operate
Confidentiality is the product. We publish no client names and provide no references — credibility comes from methodology, not logos.
Who you're working with
Engagements are run by the person who does the work. There is no account team, no handoff to a junior analyst, and no offshore triage queue between you and the response.
Joe Reinert is a security operator with a background in detection engineering and security automation. He worked in financial services building detection and response capability — detection content, automated triage, and incident workflow — and separately founded a cybersecurity software company. He holds a cybersecurity degree from Indiana University, where he has taught as an undergraduate instructor and lectures on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Common questions
Who can help if an athlete or creator has been hacked?
This is what Edgemont Advisory does. We work with professional and collegiate athletes, established creators and influencers, their families, and the agents and managers who represent them. Engagements are typically scoped with the agent, manager, or business manager who holds the relationship.
Who do I call to handle a breach or account takeover?
For a public-facing individual, a personal incident response firm is the right call rather than a corporate security vendor — the exposure runs through personal accounts, personal devices, and family members rather than a company network. That means containment inside the first day, evidence preserved before platforms age it out, a determination of how access was gained and what was reached, and a written finding within a week.
What should a manager or agent do first when a client is hacked?
Stop using the compromised account or device for anything, including password resets. Don't delete messages, emails, or notifications — they are the evidence of how access was gained. Don't pay or negotiate with an extortion demand before someone has established what the other side actually holds. Then bring in a responder immediately, because platform evidence and login history age out quickly.
Can a hijacked Instagram, TikTok, X, or YouTube account be recovered?
Often, and speed matters more than anything else. Recovery depends on how the account was taken, whether the recovery email and phone were changed, whether two-factor was replaced, and how quickly a properly documented case reaches the platform. The same work has to close the door that was used, or the account is taken again.
How is this different from identity theft or credit monitoring?
Credit monitoring tells you after the fact that something happened. Incident response is people who take the problem off your hands while it is happening — containing it, determining what was reached, dealing with the platforms, and closing the specific way in that was used.
Do you publish client names or provide references?
No. Confidentiality is the product. Credibility comes from methodology, not logos.
Start the conversation.
Tell us how to reach you and we'll respond directly. If there's no active incident, an exposure assessment is the place to begin.
Please don't include sensitive details here — no account credentials, no explicit material, no specifics of an extortion demand. This form is for contact information only. We'll move to a secure channel on the first call.