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Verkada, a leader in AI-powered physical security technology, now partners with schools and universities that collectively serve an estimated 20 million students and 2.5 million teachers and staff worldwide. With increasing demands on school safety and operations teams, many education leaders are rethinking how they secure campuses and coordinate response – prioritizing technology that's easy to use, respectful of privacy, and built to work in real-time.

There has been a paradigm shift regarding security for business leaders. C-level executives are more visible than they've ever been. At their best, they're painted as celebrities. At their worst, they're lightning rods for criticism. I've spent the majority of my career protecting some of the most visible leaders in the public and private sectors. In that time, I've witnessed a major shift in executive protection (EP). Not only have the nature of threats to their safety evolved, but the technologies and tools that security experts leverage have also advanced with them.

Whether it’s quickly analyzing hours of surveillance footage or improving access to mission-critical data, artificial intelligence has helped deter crime, expedite investigations and protect law enforcement agents.

While it seems obvious that those who are famous could face higher risks, threats are also greater for those who work in “the sectors that are angry—that get people riled up,” says Michael Evanoff, who headed the U.S. government’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security from 2017 to 2020 and is now CSO of Verkada. “These are pharmaceuticals, energy, healthcare and insurance.”

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