The heads of large companies have at their disposal a security team that is in charge of ensuring its integrity. As is logical, they try to go as unnoticed as possible. Tim Cook, as the head of Apple, has at his disposal a security team that is responsible for protecting him on all his trips.
According to data provided by Apple itself to the SEC, Tim Cook's personal safety in 2018 cost Apple $ 310.000. But, as I have said, he is not the only person in charge of a company that has security equipment at its disposal. Here is the cost of the security of other CEOs in Silicon Valley.
As we can read in the latest report published by the SEC, an independent body of the United States government that is responsible for monitoring compliance with federal securities market laws in the country, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison, CEOs of Amazon and Oracle respectively, invested in their security team during the past year 1,6 million dollars. Alphabet, for its part, spent around $ 600.000 on the security of its CEO, Sundar Piche, twice as much as was spent on Eric Schmidt.
Intel, for its part, allocated $ 1,2 million to the security equipment of its chief executive officer, Brian Krzanish in 2017. However, who takes the jackpot is Mark Zuckerberg, who last year invested 7.3 million dollars in its security in 2017, a figure that has increased to 10 million in 2018. In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg's security team had a cost for the company of 2.3 million dollars.
Tim Cook's cost of safety has varied considerably in recent years. In 2015, the cost rose to $ 700.000. In 2016, that number dropped dramatically to $ 220.000. A year later, in 2017, the cost rose to $ 224.000.
