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How Much Big Tech Companies Spend to Protect Their CEOs From Rising Threats

Threats against corporate leaders are rising, pushing Meta, Google, Nvidia and Tesla to spend millions protecting their CEOs.

In April, Sam Altman made unwanted headlines when a 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO’s home in San Francisco. The threat of violence is not isolated. A surge in attacks has prompted increased executive security across industries, costing Big Tech companies millions.

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Threats against senior corporate leaders more than doubled in 2025 compared with the year prior, according to a report from the Security Executive Council, with tech and finance the most targeted sectors. A third of these incidents resulted in death or physical injury. That doesn’t include former UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was killed in December 2024. His alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, is set to stand trial next month.

As threats against executives have risen, the median value of security costs for executives at S&P 500 companies jumped 37.8 percent from 2024 to reach $130,000 in 2025, executive intelligence firm........

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