Business Insider's look at the shifting world of executive security featured commentary from Alethea founder and CEO Lisa Kaplan. The piece traced how corporate boards that once treated a CEO's personal safety as a private matter are now writing formal security protocols into governance.
Kaplan told Business Insider that hostile online commentary can escalate faster than most organizations expect: a remark meant as a joke can be picked up and amplified by a coordinated group until it becomes a credible threat, often before anyone inside the company has flagged it.
She also pointed to a shift in what executives are asking Alethea to monitor. Where requests once centered on threats to executives themselves, Kaplan said she's increasingly fielding requests to track risks to executives' children and, in the wake of recent high-profile incidents, expects this will likely extend to their parents as well.
The conversation reflects a theme central to Alethea's work with security and communications teams: the gap between online rhetoric and physical risk is narrowing, and organizations that wait for a formal signal are often already behind.
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