Presage Global and Nines Release "The State of Family Office Estate Security"

June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Presage Global, an award-winning risk management and protective intelligence advisory firm serving family offices and high-net-worth families, in collaboration with household management platform Nines, has released "The State of Family Office Estate Security" — a first-of-its-kind research report examining the current state of residential security, operational resilience, and estate risk governance among high-net-worth families.

Based on responses from more than 100 estate managers, family office executives, chiefs of staff, and residential security professionals, the report identifies a widening gap between the sophistication of modern family office operations and the maturity of residential security practices. The central finding is striking: the core constraint is not budget or technology, but governance. Family resistance emerged as the #1 barrier to better security (49%), well ahead of cost (28%), while households with a fragmented approach reported a 62% financial-loss incident rate, versus 25% for integrated teams. The report also highlights AI-enabled threats, with 65% of respondents naming AI-powered attacks a top emerging concern, yet only 7% providing formal cybersecurity training to family members.

"The technology was there. The hardware was there. The budgets were, in many cases, generous. The posture needed work," said Edward V. Marshall, Founder and CEO of Presage Global. "The primary obstacle to effective estate security does not appear to be budget, technology, or the threat landscape. A significant and consistent constraint is governance, formalization, and integration."

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