The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024 did much to change corporate security thinking. In the two months that followed, protection company Allied Universal saw its round-the-clock embedded security business grow 30 percent, and security deployed when an executive travels spiked 300 percent, according to reporting from Fortune. Boards that once treated personal security as an executive perk are now treating it as a governance obligation. Residential security sits at the center of that reassessment.
What makes residential security different from a corporate deployment is that it must work continuously, quietly, and without disrupting family life. A well-designed program layers physical measures, cameras, access control, lighting and perimeter detection, with protective intelligence, ongoing monitoring of open-source and dark web activity for direct threats, doxxing, or credible surveillance of the property.
That layered approach reflects a broader trend: the boundaries between physical and digital threats are becoming increasingly blurry, and cyber monitoring is now considered a natural extension of protecting a home rather than a separate discipline.
The organizations doing this well do not wait for an incident to justify the investment. They start with a threat assessment specific to the individual, factoring in industry, public visibility, and any history of targeted communication, and they build the residential security program around that assessment rather than a generic package.
For a CEO or high-net-worth family, the home is not a perk to protect. It is the place where a threat has the most time and the least interruption to do harm, which is why it deserves the most deliberate planning.