
马克·扎克伯格在自身安保上不惜重金,这背后的缘由其实不难洞悉:批评者称他旗下的社交平台对用户心理健康造成损害;他在硅谷广纳贤才,全力推进其野心勃勃却颇具争议的人工智能项目;此外,他在夏威夷购置了大片土地,此举引发了当地居民和激进人士的普遍不满。考虑到他几乎必然会成为公众不满情绪的宣泄对象,想要保护自己的生活与安全也是合乎情理的。
根据《金融时报》的一项新分析,2024年,10家主要科技公司首席执行官的安保预算均超过4500万美元——即便如此,没有哪家公司像Meta为扎克伯格提供的安保那样周全。
总体而言,Alphabet、亚马逊(Amazon)、英伟达(Nvidia)和Palantir等公司的安保预算均同比增长超10%,这主要归因于威胁升级以及公共领域商业领袖面临的安全环境恶化。但Meta为扎克伯格划拨的安保费用从上年的2400万美元增至2700多万美元。
这一数额远超同行:2024年,英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋(Jensen Huang)的安保支出为350万美元,较上一年的220万美元有所增加。亚马逊为首席执行官安迪·贾西(Andy Jassy)划拨了110万美元安保费用,而前首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)则继续每年获得160万美元个人安保资金;苹果首席执行官蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)2024年的安保支出为140万美元,实际上低于2023年的240万美元。根据公开数据,Alphabet首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)的安保支出为680万美元,而特斯拉(Tesla)披露其为保护埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)投入的安保费用仅为50万美元。不过行业专家强调,这一数额仅占马斯克实际安保支出的很小部分,因为作为全球首富,马斯克拥有自己的安保公司,如Foundation Security。
值得注意的是,倘若将苹果、英伟达、亚马逊、Alphabet、微软以及Palo Alto Networks六家公司2024年首席执行官的安保费用相加,总额仍比Meta为扎克伯格投入的安保费用少约700万美元,相当于后者的74%。
硅谷的安保现状
值得一提的是,Meta的安保方案与其他公司存在些许差异:其覆盖范围包括扎克伯格的住所、家人及出行——毕竟扎克伯格与Meta(前身为Facebook)早已深度绑定、密不可分。作为公司首席执行官兼联合创始人,他持有多数投票权;加之他在社会中的高曝光度、公司裁员举措及消费者隐私方面的争议,相当一部分民众对其强烈不满。
硅谷的安保工作通常由私人安保公司负责,其中许多公司的员工都是前执法人员和退役军人。由前联邦调查局(FBI)探员詹姆斯·汉密尔顿(James Hamilton)创立的Hamilton Security提供全方位的安全评估与风险缓解服务;Gavin de Becker & Associates与LaSorsa Security & Associates也被视为行业内的领军企业,分别为马斯克与贝佐斯等高管提供保护。其服务内容包括风险评估、情报监测、配备加固设施的住宅安保(如亚马逊采用的防弹面板)、全天候私人保镖服务、安全交通安排、网络安全防护、反跟踪措施,以及针对暗杀企图、绑架风险与深度伪造等数字威胁的应对预案。
例如,Palantir的亚历克斯·卡普(Alex Karp)运营着一家涉及争议性国防合同的数据情报公司,他配备24小时安保团队,仅明面上能看到的保镖就多达4人;英伟达的黄仁勋今年荣登《财富》“全球最具影响力的100位商界领袖”榜单榜首,随着其净资产飙升、全球知名度提高(有报道称他曾遭粉丝围堵),其安保预算也随之上涨。
去年12月联合健康集团(UnitedHealthcare)首席执行官布莱恩·汤普森(Brian Thompson)遇刺事件,不仅促使部分高管增加安保支出,还迫使部分公司对相关安全规程作出调整。部分企业已将高管照片从官网撤下,加大居家安防和网络防护投入,并实施更为严格的差旅政策:例如洛克希德·马丁公司(Lockheed Martin)强制要求其首席执行官使用公司专机。
Meta公司未立即回应《财富》杂志关于扎克伯格安保支出的置评请求。(*)
为撰写本报道,《财富》杂志使用生成式人工智能协助完成初稿。在发布前,编辑已核实信息准确性。
译者:中慧言-王芳
马克·扎克伯格在自身安保上不惜重金,这背后的缘由其实不难洞悉:批评者称他旗下的社交平台对用户心理健康造成损害;他在硅谷广纳贤才,全力推进其野心勃勃却颇具争议的人工智能项目;此外,他在夏威夷购置了大片土地,此举引发了当地居民和激进人士的普遍不满。考虑到他几乎必然会成为公众不满情绪的宣泄对象,想要保护自己的生活与安全也是合乎情理的。
根据《金融时报》的一项新分析,2024年,10家主要科技公司首席执行官的安保预算均超过4500万美元——即便如此,没有哪家公司像Meta为扎克伯格提供的安保那样周全。
总体而言,Alphabet、亚马逊(Amazon)、英伟达(Nvidia)和Palantir等公司的安保预算均同比增长超10%,这主要归因于威胁升级以及公共领域商业领袖面临的安全环境恶化。但Meta为扎克伯格划拨的安保费用从上年的2400万美元增至2700多万美元。
这一数额远超同行:2024年,英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋(Jensen Huang)的安保支出为350万美元,较上一年的220万美元有所增加。亚马逊为首席执行官安迪·贾西(Andy Jassy)划拨了110万美元安保费用,而前首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)则继续每年获得160万美元个人安保资金;苹果首席执行官蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook)2024年的安保支出为140万美元,实际上低于2023年的240万美元。根据公开数据,Alphabet首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)的安保支出为680万美元,而特斯拉(Tesla)披露其为保护埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)投入的安保费用仅为50万美元。不过行业专家强调,这一数额仅占马斯克实际安保支出的很小部分,因为作为全球首富,马斯克拥有自己的安保公司,如Foundation Security。
值得注意的是,倘若将苹果、英伟达、亚马逊、Alphabet、微软以及Palo Alto Networks六家公司2024年首席执行官的安保费用相加,总额仍比Meta为扎克伯格投入的安保费用少约700万美元,相当于后者的74%。
硅谷的安保现状
值得一提的是,Meta的安保方案与其他公司存在些许差异:其覆盖范围包括扎克伯格的住所、家人及出行——毕竟扎克伯格与Meta(前身为Facebook)早已深度绑定、密不可分。作为公司首席执行官兼联合创始人,他持有多数投票权;加之他在社会中的高曝光度、公司裁员举措及消费者隐私方面的争议,相当一部分民众对其强烈不满。
硅谷的安保工作通常由私人安保公司负责,其中许多公司的员工都是前执法人员和退役军人。由前联邦调查局(FBI)探员詹姆斯·汉密尔顿(James Hamilton)创立的Hamilton Security提供全方位的安全评估与风险缓解服务;Gavin de Becker & Associates与LaSorsa Security & Associates也被视为行业内的领军企业,分别为马斯克与贝佐斯等高管提供保护。其服务内容包括风险评估、情报监测、配备加固设施的住宅安保(如亚马逊采用的防弹面板)、全天候私人保镖服务、安全交通安排、网络安全防护、反跟踪措施,以及针对暗杀企图、绑架风险与深度伪造等数字威胁的应对预案。
例如,Palantir的亚历克斯·卡普(Alex Karp)运营着一家涉及争议性国防合同的数据情报公司,他配备24小时安保团队,仅明面上能看到的保镖就多达4人;英伟达的黄仁勋今年荣登《财富》“全球最具影响力的100位商界领袖”榜单榜首,随着其净资产飙升、全球知名度提高(有报道称他曾遭粉丝围堵),其安保预算也随之上涨。
去年12月联合健康集团(UnitedHealthcare)首席执行官布莱恩·汤普森(Brian Thompson)遇刺事件,不仅促使部分高管增加安保支出,还迫使部分公司对相关安全规程作出调整。部分企业已将高管照片从官网撤下,加大居家安防和网络防护投入,并实施更为严格的差旅政策:例如洛克希德·马丁公司(Lockheed Martin)强制要求其首席执行官使用公司专机。
Meta公司未立即回应《财富》杂志关于扎克伯格安保支出的置评请求。(*)
为撰写本报道,《财富》杂志使用生成式人工智能协助完成初稿。在发布前,编辑已核实信息准确性。
译者:中慧言-王芳
Mark Zuckerberg goes to great lengths to protect himself. It makes sense: Critics say his social networks are bad for your mental health, he’s aggressively hiring people across Silicon Valley to staff up his ambitious AI projects (which are, unto themselves, polarizing), and he owns wide swaths of land in Hawaii, which has rankled residents and activists alike. It makes sense that he might want to shield his livelihood, considering he’s almost certainly the target of public ire.
According to a new Financial Times analysis, security budgets for the chief executives of 10 major tech companies climbed above $45 million in 2024—but still, nobody protects their boss more than Meta does for Zuckerberg.
Across the board, companies like Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, and Palantir all increased protection budgets by more than 10% year over year, driven by heightened threats and a worsening security environment for public-facing business leaders. But Meta’s security allocation for Zuckerberg reached more than $27 million in 2024, up from $24 million the previous year.
This dwarfs the amounts spent by peers: In 2024, Nvidia spent $3.5 million to secure CEO Jensen Huang, an increase from $2.2 million the previous year. Amazon allocated $1.1 million for CEO Andy Jassy, while former CEO Jeff Bezos continued to receive $1.6 million annually toward his personal security. Apple spent $1.4 million to protect Tim Cook in 2024, which was actually lower than the $2.4 million spent in 2023. Alphabet’s security spending for Sundar Pichai reached $6.8 million, according to public data, and Tesla disclosed it spent just $500,000 to protect Elon Musk, although industry experts emphasize that this sum represents only a small portion of his actual security expenses as the world’s richest man has his own security companies like Foundation Security.
Notably, if you add up how much Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks spent protecting their CEOs in 2024, it’s still about $7 million—26%—less than what Meta spent to guard Zuckerberg.
Security in Silicon Valley
For what it’s worth, Meta’s security program is a bit different from the others as it covers Zuckerberg’s residences, family, and travel, since Zuckerberg is synonymous with Meta, née Facebook. As both CEO and cofounder, he also holds majority voting power—and a lot of people have strong feelings about Zuckerberg given his very public role in society, layoffs, and consumer privacy.
Security in Silicon Valley is often managed by private-security firms, many of which are staffed by former law enforcement and military professionals. Hamilton Security, founded by former FBI agent James Hamilton, provides comprehensive assessments and risk mitigation services. Gavin de Becker & Associates and LaSorsa Security & Associates are also considered major players, protecting executives like Musk and Bezos, respectively. Their services include risk assessment, intelligence monitoring, residential security with hardened features (e.g., Amazon’s bulletproof panels), 24/7 personal protective details, secure transportation, cybersecurity, anti-stalking measures, as well as preparation for assassination attempts, kidnap attempts, and digital threats such as deepfakes.
Palantir’s Alex Karp, for example, who runs a data-intelligence company with controversial defense contracts, employs a 24/7 security detail with up to four visible bodyguards. Nvidia’s Huang, who nabbed the top spot on Fortune‘s Most Powerful People in Business list this year, saw a rise in his protection budget as his net worth soared and global profile increased, including reports of being mobbed by fans.
The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December led to some of the rising spend among executives, but it also forced some protocol changes as well. Some companies have removed photos of their leadership from their corporate websites, invested in home defenses and cyber protection, and enforced stricter travel policies: Lockheed Martin, for example, mandates its CEO use corporate jets.
Meta did not immediately respond to Fortune‘s request for comment on its security spend for Zuckerberg.
For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.