Fortune 500 security directors held a video call in wake of shooting.
Fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson prompts wake-up call for nation's executives: Experts0:57in Midtown Manhattan of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has sparked worry in C-suites around the globe as companies both large and small are reevaluating security for their top executives, experts said.
"Some already have security and so they are deciding if they need to increase it, and others who have not had security are saying, 'Do we need to have some security, or do we need to have at least a policy regarding security in place?'" said Frankel, also an ABC News contributor. "Chief security officers around the globe are looking at their executive security programs either on their own or they're being asked to do so by CEOs and or their boards and making sure that they have the appropriate resources in place and capabilities in place to identify potential situations like this and then address them appropriately," said Komendat, a retired chief security officer at Boeing.
“I think there’s a bit of denial in the corporate world," Mihalek said. "I think what the corporations are missing is that in this day and age with information freely available on the internet, every corporate executive is a public official. Every corporate executive’s name, face, and salary are out there. So, if anybody has a grievance, whether it’s an employee or an aggrieved customer, they know who these people are and they know where they work.
Last month, Dean Skurka, the president and CEO of WonderFi, a Toronto cryptocurrency company, was kidnapped and released after his company paid $1 million in ransom, according to the Toronto Police Service. No arrests have been made in the case.In 2019, California tech company CEO and cannabis entrepreneur Tushar Atre was kidnapped and killed when he tried to escape, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
“If you think you need it in foreign countries, you know, it's possible that you’ll need it in the U.S.," Frankel said. "We hopefully are safer than some of the other countries, but that doesn’t mean that there is no threat out there."
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