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Corporate Security in the Age of AI and Robotics
A board-level briefing on threats, liability, and protective strategy for people, sites, and intellectual property — across the US and UK regulatory frame. CC Intelligence White Paper, Q2 2026.
This board-level briefing examines how the physical security of people, sites, and intellectual property has moved from a facilities matter to a governance obligation — one that Delaware courts, the SEC, the UK Financial Reporting Council, and Parliament have each placed at the centre of directors' personal accountability. Drawing on verified incidents from 2023 through 2026, the Caremark line of cases, and benchmark practice across the S&P 500 and the FTSE 100, it sets out what boards in the United States and the United Kingdom must understand and do.
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What this white paper covers
- The new threat landscape for corporations — from targeted violence against executives to AI-enabled fraud and insider IP theft
- The technologies boards must understand: AI, robotics, drones, and deepfakes
- Protecting headquarters, sites, data centres, R&D, executives, and travelling staff
- Board liability and the regulatory frame, with a comparative US/UK analysis
- Governance: how boards build and steer a documented, operating oversight system
- Outlook 2026–2030 and a concrete board agenda
Executive summary — ten theses for the board
01. The threat has crossed the perimeter and reached the boardroom.
02. Director liability for physical-security failures now reaches the individual.
03. The 737 MAX settlement set the price of an absent safety committee at a quarter of a billion dollars.
04. A CEO's death produced a $119 billion market-capitalisation event and securities litigation.
05. AI has industrialised executive fraud.
06. Intellectual property is being stolen from the inside, and prosecutors now treat it as national security.
07. The United Kingdom has converted physical security into hard statutory duty.
08. Travel and duty of care are now litigated against an international standard.
09. Critical infrastructure operators face binding security mandates on both sides of the Atlantic.
10. Boards can defend themselves — but only with a documented, operating oversight system.