Mark Zuckerberg hurts a lot to protect himself. This makes sense: criticism say that his social networks are bad for your mental health, he aggressively hires people from Silicon Valley to set up his ambitious AI projects (who are, to themselves, polarizers), and he has large land bands in Hawaii, who have put residents and activists. It is logical that he may want to protect his livelihoods, since he is almost certainly the target of public anger.
According to a new Financial time Analysis, security budgets for heads of management of 10 major technological companies exceeded $ 45 million in 2024, but still, nobody protects their boss more than Meta for Zuckerberg.
Overall, companies like Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia and Palantre have all increased protective budgets by more than 10% from one year to the next, pulled by increased threats and aggravation of the security environment for public -oriented business leaders. But Meta’s security allowance in Zuckerberg reached more than $ 27 million in 2024, compared to 24 million dollars the previous year.
This eclipses the amounts spent by peers: in 2024, Nvidia spent $ 3.5 million to secure CEO Jensen Huang, an increase of $ 2.2 million the previous year. Amazon allocated $ 1.1 million to CEO Andy Jassy, while former CEO Jeff Bezos continued to receive $ 1.6 million a year for his personal safety. Apple spent $ 1.4 million to protect Tim Cook in 2024, which was in fact below 2.4 million dollars spent in 2023. Safety.
In particular, if you add the quantity of Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Palo Alto networks spent their CEOs in 2024, it is still about $ 7 million – 26% – less than Meta spent to keep Zuckerberg.
For what is worth, Meta’s security program is a little different from the others because it covers the residences, family and trips of Zuckerberg, since Zuckerberg is synonymous with meta, born Facebook. As CEO and co -founder, he also has the majority voting power – and many people have strong feelings about Zuckerberg given his very public role in society, layoffs and privacy of consumers.
Safety in Silicon Valley is often managed by private security companies, many of which are composed of former professionals in the application of laws and soldiers. Hamilton Security, founded by former FBI agent James Hamilton, provides complete assessments and risk attenuation services. Gavin de Becker & Associates and Lasorsa Security & Associates are also considered to be major players, protecting executives like Musk and Bezos respectively. Their services include risk assessment, information surveillance, residential security with hardened features (for example, Amazon’s Bulletproof panels), personal protection details 24/7, secure transport, cybersecurity, anti-projection measures, as well as preparing assassination attempts, abduction attempts and digital threats such as Deepfakes.
