“When a company gets to this level, the management team has to be careful what they say in a number of settings. If I were NP, I'd only talk in a SKIFF.”

Technically, the acronym is SCIF and it stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. But your statement could be accurate as well, because it would be easier to prevent information from leaking if you only shared information with the other people on the skiff you’re sailing.