Los Angeles has no shortage of security professionals. What it doesn’t have enough of, according to Denver based executive protection specialist Chris Ward, is people watching the threat that follows a client home after the detail ends for the night.
Ward, a U.S. military veteran with four and a half years of overseas peacekeeping operations and three years as a HUMINT intelligence collector, is spending the next several months in Los Angeles providing close protection and security services to executives, high net worth individuals, and public facing clients through his firm, Ward of the World. His background includes advance work and threat assessment for C-suite executives during international travel, along with event security experience at TED Conference level operations.
“Physical security is the part people can see,” Ward said. “Nobody thinks about the part they can’t see until it’s already cost them something.”
That part, in Ward’s view, is identity theft. It is a risk that follows high profile individuals differently than it follows everyone else. Public figures, executives, and high net worth individuals are frequently targeted precisely because their names carry weight, their financial footprint is larger, and their information is more exposed through public records, media coverage, and professional visibility than the average person’s.
Alongside his executive protection work, Ward is a licensed IDShield associate, and he pairs the two services deliberately. A protection detail secures a client physically. IDShield is built to catch and repair the damage when someone tries to exploit that same visibility from a distance, through stolen identity, financial fraud, or compromised personal information.
Five Things IDShield Members Get That Most People Don’t Realize They Need
- Monitoring built for how identity theft actually happens now. IDShield tracks far more than a Social Security number. Coverage includes monitoring across dark web sources, social media, financial accounts, court and public records, and even passport and driver’s license numbers, the kind of information that leaks through data broker sites and old breaches long before anyone notices a problem.
- Full service restoration handled by licensed investigators, not a call center script. If a member’s identity is compromised, licensed private investigators work directly with credit bureaus, financial institutions, and collection agencies on the member’s behalf. For someone with a public profile or a demanding schedule, having someone else fight that battle is often the entire value of the plan.
- Coverage up to $3 million for covered identity theft related losses. That figure covers costs like lost wages, legal fees, and related expenses tied to resolving a covered identity theft event, not just the fraudulent charges themselves.
- Financial threshold monitoring that catches movement before it becomes a pattern. Members get alerted on large withdrawals, balance transfers, and unusual activity across credit cards, checking and savings accounts, retirement plans, and loans, which matters most for exactly the kind of client who isn’t checking every account daily.
- Built in digital protection tools most people pay for separately. IDShield plans include a VPN, password manager, and device protection through Trend Micro, along with privacy management support to help limit how much personal information data brokers can collect and sell in the first place.
Ward said the pairing of physical protection and identity protection reflects a simple reality of his client base. “The people I work with are targets in more than one way. It doesn’t make sense to lock down one and ignore the other.”
Ward can be reached for executive protection consultations through Ward of the World at wardexecutiveprotection.abacusai.app, and for IDShield enrollment at cmward.legalshieldassociate.com/identity. He can also be reached directly at chris@wardbusinesssolutions.com or 1.720.550.2320.
Disclaimer: This article contains testimonials that reflect personal experiences and are not guarantees of future results. Actual outcomes may vary based on effort, experience, and commitment.
