UnitedHealthcare CEO murder sends executives scrambling to hire security: experts
The Wednesday assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will “heighten [executives’] awareness of vulnerabilities” and likely lead to a wave of new security contracts, experts told Fox News Digital.
In an ambush caught on surveillance video, a gunman with his face covered aimed a pistol with a silencer at Thompson at 6:46 a.m. Wednesday outside the Midtown Hilton Hotel and shot the executive three times.
Former New York Homeland Security adviser Michael Balboni told Fox News Digital that at least one prospective client, the head of a large financial institution, specifically mentioned the shooting when calling to ask after an executive-protection assessment through his company, Redland Strategies Inc.
“In the short term, this incident highlights the need to perform threat assessments on not just infrastructure or systems, but key personnel as well,” he said. “As a result, security personnel should be busy.”
“But in the long term, complacency will return,” he added.
Retired NYPD detective Pat Brosnan, the CEO of Brosnan Investigations Group and former head of Brosnan Risk Consultants, told Fox News Digital that the killing had “already, within hours of the murder, prompted meetings of high-level, chief security officers around the country.”
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