High Net Worth Security Services and Response Time

Posted On:Oct 20, 2026
Posted By:Michael Braun

High net worth security services are measured in minutes

High net worth security services are often sold by the hardware: cameras, sensors, gates, monitoring contracts, guards. All of that matters. But when a burglar is actually inside a home, the measure that decides how the night ends is much simpler. How many minutes pass between the first sign of trouble and the moment someone who can help is standing at the door? Three burglary cases reported in the past ten days, in Los Angeles and in England, show that clock from three different angles.

On Sunday, October 18, 2026, according to NBC Los Angeles, a resident of the 20600 block of Campania Lane in Porter Ranch came home before 6 p.m. to find her house ransacked and the back door forced in. LAPD told the station that about $100,000 in gold, silver and jewelry had been taken. Nobody knew until she walked in.

Two days earlier, the BBC reported that a man had been jailed for four years for a June burglary at the unoccupied Northamptonshire home of former world snooker champion Kyren Wilson. And on October 10, the Daily Mail reported that Essex Police had filed the investigation into the February 2025 break-in at the home of Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan, where the couple locked themselves in a bedroom as four masked men came in. In that case the alarm, the cameras and the couple’s own reaction bought time, and the intruders reportedly left within about a minute.

This article supports the section on burglary around public schedules and travel in our complete 2026 overview of high net worth security, and in particular its short sub-sections on hot prowl burglary versus the empty house and on response time. The pillar makes the point that response time matters. This article is about how to measure it, where the minutes are lost and how a professional program wins them back.

For the empty-house side of the problem, read our piece on high net worth security for empty homes and second homes. Here I look at the whole response chain, for occupied and unoccupied homes alike.

Residential security officer seen from behind checks a forced back door of a large home at dusk with a monitor in hand

Key takeaways

Response time is the period from the first sign of an intrusion to the arrival of someone who can act. It is a clear, practical test of high net worth security services, and it can be measured.
In Porter Ranch, the burglary was discovered when the resident came home. When nobody detects the entry, the response time is the time until someone happens to walk in.
In the Wilson case, police said the burglar smashed an upstairs window of an unoccupied house in daylight. Upper floors and daytime absences are part of the response problem.
In the Wright and Keegan case, as reported, the alarm sounded, cameras sent alerts and the intruders were inside for around a minute before leaving. Detection plus a safe place to wait bought time.
Minutes are lost at five points: detection, verification, the decision to dispatch, travel and access to the property. Each can be improved.
Delay is part of response. Barriers, hardened rooms and protected valuables stretch the time an intruder needs, which makes any response more effective.
Recommended HNW security teams can tell you their response time to your home in minutes, and they test it.

What happened in three recent cases

Porter Ranch, Los Angeles: discovered on arrival

The NBC Los Angeles report, published on October 19, 2026, is short, and I will not add to it. According to LAPD, at least one burglar forced their way into a home on the 20600 block of Campania Lane before 6 p.m. on Sunday. The resident came home to find the home ransacked and the back door forced in. About $100,000 in gold, silver and jewelry was taken. No arrests had been made, and no suspect description was available. The investigation was ongoing.

What the report does not say is also telling. It does not mention an alarm, a camera alert or a call before the resident arrived. I do not know whether the home had any of those. What the published account describes is a burglary that was found, not interrupted.

Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire: an upstairs window in daylight

According to the BBC, citing Northamptonshire Police, high-value jewelry, luxury watches, designer handbags and cash were taken from Kyren Wilson’s house near Kettering on June 22, 2026. Wilson said that about £2,000 in cash set aside as a donation to a children’s cancer charity was among the items stolen. The force said the burglar bought tools and clothing from two large retailers, drove from Luton to Kettering in a vehicle fitted with cloned number plates, arrived after 11:00 BST, smashed an upstairs window of the four-bedroom detached house and got in. The house was unoccupied at the time. He left in the same vehicle.

The man, 28, initially denied the charge but later pleaded guilty at Northampton Crown Court and was sentenced to four years. Detective Inspector Alan Rooney told the BBC that people often underestimate how violating it can feel to know that someone has been inside your home.

Ongar, Essex: the minute inside

The Daily Mail reported on October 10, 2026, updated October 13, that Essex Police had filed the investigation into a burglary in the Ongar area in February 2025. The force told the paper that the decision followed extensive enquiries, including area searches, witness interviews, forensic evidence and CCTV assessment, that the victims were safeguarded and that further enquiries would follow if new information emerged.

The paper, citing reporting by The Sun, described the incident at the home of Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan on the evening of February 17, 2025. Four masked men broke in. The couple reportedly heard a window smash and the alarm go off and went to a bedroom, where they locked themselves in. It was reported that the intruders were on the property for around a minute and hurried away when Wright started yelling, leaving empty-handed in a getaway car. A camera reportedly detected the group arriving and sent alerts to the couple’s phones. According to The Sun, as quoted by the Daily Mail, police were alerted through the security system and arrived within minutes. A source said the couple waited for police before leaving the room. The Sun also reported fears that the house had been targeted after it appeared on social media, where the couple had documented its renovation.

Three homes, three different outcomes. In one, nobody knew. In one, the house was empty in daylight and the burglar had time. In one, the system and the family’s response compressed the intruders’ time to about a minute.

The response chain: detect, verify, decide, travel, enter

When I assess a family’s home, I do not start with the brand of the cameras. I start by walking through what happens, minute by minute, if someone forces the back door at 5 p.m. on a Sunday. Who finds out first? How? What do they do? Who do they call? How long until someone arrives? Can that person get in?

That walk-through always reveals a chain with five links. The total response time is the sum of all five.

1. Detect

Something has to notice the intrusion. A door contact, a glass-break sensor, a perimeter beam, a camera with analytics, a dog, a neighbor, a residential officer on patrol. If nothing notices, the clock does not start until someone comes home, which is what the Porter Ranch account describes.

2. Verify

Someone has to decide that the alert is real. Alarm companies, monitoring centers and family members all face false alarms, and many have learned to wait or call back before acting. That caution is understandable. It is also where minutes disappear. A camera view of the door that triggered, available to whoever receives the alert, turns verification from a phone tag into a few seconds of looking.

3. Decide

Someone has to decide to send help and to call police. In many homes this decision is left to a family member who is at dinner, on a plane or asleep. Or it sits with a monitoring operator who has a script that says to call the keyholder first. Each handoff adds time.

4. Travel

Whoever is sent has to get there. A residential officer on site is seconds away. A mobile patrol may be a few minutes away, or much longer depending on where it is when the call comes. Police response depends on priorities, staffing and distance, and it varies widely by area and time of day. I do not quote police response figures, because they change and differ by call type. What I tell families is to plan as if police will take longer than they would like.

5. Enter

When help arrives, can it get onto the property and into the house? Gates, codes, keys, dogs, the right door. I have seen responders stand at a closed gate while an alarm sounded, because nobody had given them a way in.

High net worth security services that are serious about response time measure each link and strengthen the weak one first. A beautiful camera system that alerts a phone nobody is watching has fixed link one and left links two to five untouched.

Occupied versus empty: two different clocks

The pillar article distinguishes between hot prowl burglary, when someone is home, and the empty house. They need different response plans because the clock means different things.

When the family is home

When someone is home, the response clock is about safety first and property second. The questions are: how quickly does the family know someone is coming in, how quickly can they get to a safe place, and how quickly does help arrive? In the Ongar account, the couple heard the window break and the alarm, reached a bedroom and locked themselves in. That sequence, detection followed by retreat to a defendable room, is exactly what I train families to do. It turns the response clock from “how long until help arrives” into “how long can we stay safe until help arrives”.

The home of a high net worth family should therefore be designed so that the family hears an intrusion early, at the perimeter, and has a short path to a room that can be locked and that has a way to call for help. Our article on safe room planning for UHNW homes covers that room in detail.

When the house is empty

When the house is empty, the clock is about how much time the burglar gets. A burglar in an empty house with no one coming has as long as he wants. A burglar who knows that an alarm will bring someone within minutes has to hurry, and burglars who hurry take less and leave more evidence.

In the Wilson case, police said the house was unoccupied when the burglar arrived after 11 a.m. and broke an upstairs window. Daytime absences, when the family is at work, school or an event, are a large part of the risk. In my experience, many families set the alarm carefully at night and less carefully when they leave for a few hours in the day.

Where the minutes are lost

Across the homes I have assessed in Los Angeles and elsewhere, the same weak points come up again and again.

Late detection

Sensors are placed on the front door and the main windows, but not on the back door to the garden, the upstairs windows above a flat roof, the pool house or the garage side door. An intruder chooses the opening without a sensor. In the Wilson case it was an upstairs window. In Porter Ranch, police said the back door was forced. Detection should start at the outer perimeter, so that the clock starts before anyone reaches the house.

Alerts to the wrong place

Camera alerts go to a family member’s phone, which is on silent in a meeting or in another time zone. Alarm signals go to a monitoring company that calls a keyholder who does not answer. The alert exists, but nobody acts. Alerts should go to someone whose job is to act, around the clock.

Verification by phone

The monitoring operator calls the house, then the mobile, then the second keyholder, before deciding. Every call is a minute or more. Where the operator can see live camera views from the zone that triggered, verification takes seconds.

No authority to dispatch

The person who sees the alert is not allowed to send a patrol or call police without permission. Families should give that authority in writing, in advance, to their residential team or monitoring center.

No way in

Responders arrive at a locked gate with no code, a dog loose in the garden, or a house with ten doors and no idea which one was forced. A simple access plan, with codes held securely by the responding team and a site map, saves minutes when they matter.

The minute inside: lessons from Ongar

The Ongar account, as reported, is a useful study because so much went right. I want to look at it carefully, without adding detail that has not been published.

Early warning. A camera reportedly detected the group arriving and sent alerts. The family knew something was happening before the intruders were inside.
Loud detection. The couple reportedly heard a window smash and the alarm sound. A loud, local alarm tells intruders that time has started running.
Retreat. The couple went to a bedroom and locked the door. They did not go downstairs to investigate.
Short stay. The intruders were reportedly on the property for around a minute and left without taking anything.
Response. Police were reportedly alerted through the security system and arrived within minutes, and the couple waited for them before leaving the room.

The less encouraging part of the story is that the case has now been filed without anyone identified. Essex Police said CCTV and forensic work did not lead to suspects. That is a reminder that cameras which record faces covered by balaclavas, or vehicles with false plates, do not by themselves solve a case. In the Wilson case, police said the burglar used cloned plates. Response time matters partly because the chance of catching someone falls quickly once they have left.

The Sun’s reporting that the gang may have spotted the house on social media also matters for response. A family that shows its home online shows its layout, its entrances and often its absences. That shortens the intruder’s planning time and makes any response harder. Our piece on private security for high net worth family homes in Los Angeles covers how public schedules and posts feed burglary.

Discovery after the fact: the Porter Ranch problem

The Porter Ranch case, as reported, is the more common pattern and the more worrying one. A resident comes home and finds the back door forced and the house ransacked. The burglary might have taken twenty minutes or two hours. Nobody knows, because nothing told anyone it was happening.

In that situation, the response time is effectively the time between the break-in and the moment someone walks in. Whatever was in the house during that period, the burglar had access to it.

For families with significant jewelry, watches, precious metals or cash at home, this is the scenario I plan against first. It requires three things:

Detection on every opening a burglar would use, including back doors, side doors and upper-floor windows reachable from roofs or trees.
Alerts that go to someone who will act, not just to a phone.
Valuables that are not sitting in a dresser or a closet, but in a safe that is properly anchored and rated, or off site altogether.

Home security for high net worth individuals is often discussed as if every burglary were a dramatic confrontation. Many are quiet. The quiet ones are where response time is decided long before anyone arrives.

False alarms and the cry-wolf problem

Any honest discussion of response time has to deal with false alarms. They are the main reason monitoring operators wait, call back and ask for confirmation before acting. A household that triggers the alarm every week, because the dog walker forgets the code or the cleaner opens the wrong door, teaches everyone in the response chain to assume the next alarm is also nothing.

I have seen this pattern undermine expensive systems. The technology works. The people around it have stopped believing it.

Reducing false alarms is therefore part of reducing response time. In practice that means:

Individual codes for every person who arms or disarms the system, so that the source of a false alarm is known and the person can be retrained.
Sensors placed and adjusted so that pets, curtains, heating vents and wildlife do not trigger them. In canyon and hillside properties around Los Angeles, wildlife on the grounds is a real factor in perimeter design.
Camera verification attached to every alarm zone, so the operator can see the cause quickly.
A short review of every false alarm, with a fix, rather than a shrug.

A system with few false alarms earns a fast response, from the monitoring center and from everyone else in the chain. A system with many earns hesitation.

Day and night: different gaps

The three cases in this article fall at different times of day. The Wilson burglary, according to police, began after 11 a.m. The Porter Ranch burglary happened before 6 p.m. on a Sunday, according to LAPD. The Ongar break-in happened in the evening, according to the Daily Mail.

Each time of day has its own gaps in the response chain.

Daytime

During the day, homes are often empty for a few hours or occupied by staff alone. The alarm may not be set at all, because people are coming and going. Gardeners, pool technicians and deliveries mean gates open and close. A burglar in work clothes attracts little attention. Daytime response depends on perimeter detection that stays on even when people are home, on staff who know what to do and on cameras that someone is actually watching.

Evening

Early evening is when families are often out at dinner, events or activities, and when darkness arrives before anyone comes home in autumn and winter. It is also when neighbors are busy and less likely to notice. Evening response depends on the system being fully armed when the family leaves, even for an hour.

Night

At night, the family is usually home and asleep. Detection has to be early and loud enough to wake them, the path to a safe room has to be short, and the response has to arrive while they wait. Night is also when police resources may be stretched. Families with higher exposure often choose overnight residential officers for this reason.

When we design a program, we plan each period separately. A response plan that works at 3 a.m. may not work at 3 p.m., and the reverse is also true.

Response for the person, not just the house

Many discussions of response focus on the alarm. Some of the incidents I have dealt with began with a person at the door, a delivery that was not a delivery, or a family member who was confronted in the driveway. The house alarm did nothing in those moments, because nothing had been opened yet.

For those situations, the response chain starts with the person. Practical tools include:

Wearable or mobile panic alerts for family members and staff, linked to the same monitoring center as the alarm.
Silent duress codes that disarm the system in front of an intruder while sending an emergency signal.
Fixed panic buttons at the front door, in the kitchen and in the primary bedroom.
Intercom and camera at the gate, so that nobody needs to open the door to speak to a visitor.

These tools start the clock earlier. That is exactly what response time is about.

How a professional program builds response time

When MSB Protection designs a residential program, response time is one of the first numbers we agree with the family. Not a vague promise of “rapid response”, but an honest estimate for each scenario: family home at night, family home during the day, house empty for an afternoon, house empty for a month. Then we build layers so that the estimate is real.

Layer one: people on site

For families with higher exposure, residential officers on the property give a response measured in seconds. They are already there. They know the property, the family and the staff. They can verify an alert by looking at a camera or walking to a door, and they can move the family to a safe room while calling police. Our article on residential security officers for Los Angeles UHNW estates explains what that role involves day to day.

Layer two: a monitoring center that can see

Whether or not officers are on site, a monitoring center or command center that receives every alarm signal and has live access to the property’s cameras closes the verification gap. The operator sees the zone that triggered, looks at the camera and decides within seconds. Our piece on estate command centers covers the setup.

Layer three: mobile response

For homes without officers on site, a mobile patrol that knows the property and has its access codes is the next layer. What matters is not the existence of a patrol contract but where the patrol vehicle actually is at the hours that matter, and how long it takes to reach your gate. That should be tested, not assumed.

Layer four: police

Police are always part of the plan. The private team’s job is to call them early with clear, verified information: what is happening, where, how many intruders if known, whether the family is inside, whether anyone is armed. A verified call with camera evidence is generally treated very differently from an unverified alarm. Our article on police liaison for high net worth families covers how to build that relationship.

Each layer covers the gaps of the one before. No layer is perfect. Together they bring the response time down to something the family can live with.

Home security for high net worth individuals: delay is part of response

Response time is a race between the intruder and the responder. You can win it by arriving faster, or by making the intruder slower. Good home security for high net worth individuals does both.

Delay measures include:

Perimeter barriers that slow approach: fences, gates and landscaping that channel people toward monitored points.
Hardened openings, especially the back and side doors and the ground-floor glass that burglars favor, and the upstairs windows reachable from a roof, a balcony or a tree. In the Wilson case, police said the entry was through an upstairs window.
Internal doors that lock, particularly to the primary bedroom suite and the room that holds valuables.
Safes that are properly rated, anchored and placed so they cannot be carried away, with high-value items stored off site.
A safe room or a hardened bedroom where the family can wait, with a phone, a panic button and a door that holds.

The Ongar case, as reported, shows the value of a lockable room. The couple did not need to fight. They needed to be behind a door for a few minutes, and the intruders reportedly left within about a minute.

When an intruder needs ten minutes to reach the valuables and the response arrives in six, the intruder fails. When he needs three minutes and the response takes twenty, he succeeds. That is the arithmetic of response time.

Personal security for high networth individuals inside the home

The family’s own reaction is part of the response chain. In the homes we protect, every adult in the household knows a short plan:

If the alarm sounds or you hear a break-in, do not go to investigate.
Gather family members and go to the agreed safe room or lockable room.
Lock the door, call or press the panic button, and stay there.
Wait for police or your security team to confirm it is safe before coming out.
If you encounter an intruder, comply. Property can be replaced.

That last point is uncomfortable for some principals, but it is my firm advice. Personal security for high networth individuals inside the home is about getting the family through the event unharmed. The investigation, the insurance and the replacement of property come later.

Staff need the same plan. A housekeeper or nanny alone in the house during the day should know where to go and how to raise an alarm. Our piece on security culture in the household covers how to make that plan part of daily life.

Private security for high net worth family members away from home

The Porter Ranch and Wilson cases both involved homes that were empty when the burglar arrived. Families with several residences, or who travel often, need a response plan for each home that does not depend on someone being there.

Private security for high net worth family members who travel should include:

Every residence monitored, with alerts going to a center that can see the cameras and dispatch.
A clear rule for who is called, in what order, when an alert comes in at each property.
Someone local with access codes and authority to attend, whether an officer, a patrol or a trusted caretaker.
Valuables reduced or moved when a home will be empty for long periods.
No public posts that show the family away while the home is empty.

Our article on empty homes and second homes covers vacant properties in more detail, including what to do when an alert comes in at night.

Security for UHNW family offices: measuring and testing response

Security for UHNW family offices should include the response question as a standing item. The family office pays for the contracts. It should also know whether they work.

Measure

Ask each provider, for each property, for their expected response time in minutes, at different times of day, with the basis for the estimate. Ask where the patrol vehicle is based and how many properties it covers. Ask who verifies alerts and how.

Test

Arrange unannounced tests, with the provider’s agreement and with care not to involve police unnecessarily. Trigger an alarm at an agreed time and measure each link: when did the monitoring center see it, when did they verify, when did they dispatch, when did someone arrive, how long did it take them to get in? The first test is often uncomfortable. That is the point.

Record

Keep a simple log of tests and real alerts with times for each link. Over a year, it tells the family office whether the program is improving and where the weak link is.

Family office high net worth individuals security improves noticeably when someone owns these numbers. It also gives the family office a factual basis for renewing, changing or adding to contracts.

Close protection for UHNW families and the residence

Families with close protection sometimes assume that the protection detail covers the home. It usually does not. A protector travels with the principal. When the principal is out, the home relies on its residential layer. When the principal comes home, the two layers meet at the gate.

Close protection for UHNW families works well when the detail and the residential team share one picture: the detail tells the residence when the principal is leaving and returning, the residence tells the detail about any alert or concern before arrival, and both know the response plan if something happens while the principal is home. That handoff is a small thing that saves minutes.

What recommended HNW security teams measure

When families ask what separates recommended HNW security teams from others, one practical answer is that they can show you numbers. A professional team can tell you, for your home:

Which openings are detected and which are not.
Who receives each alert, and how they verify it.
Who has authority to dispatch and to call police.
Expected response time from each layer, by time of day.
How responders get onto the property and into the house.
When the last test was run and what it showed.

A provider who answers with general reassurance rather than specifics has probably not measured. At MSB Protection, our in-house research and development team works on methods to counter threats to UHNW clients, including how we test detection, verification and response at the homes we protect, and how we shorten each link.

Questions to ask any provider about response

Whether you are reviewing an existing arrangement or choosing new high net worth security services, these questions get to the point quickly:

If someone forces my back door at 5 p.m. on a Sunday, walk me through the next ten minutes.
Who sees the alert first, and can they see a camera view of that door?
How long, honestly, until one of your people is at my gate? At 3 a.m.? On a holiday weekend?
Do your responders have access codes, and do they know the layout?
What does my family do while they wait?
When did you last test response to my home, and can I see the result?
What happens when I am traveling and the house is empty?

Good providers welcome these questions. They are how a family tells the difference between a contract and a capability.

Gated communities, HOA patrols and shared security

Many families in Southern California live in gated communities or neighborhoods with a homeowners’ association patrol: parts of Hidden Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, Bel Air and Malibu among them. Shared security is valuable. It deters casual intruders, controls traffic at the entrance and adds eyes on the street. It is not the same as a response plan for your home.

When I review a home inside a gated community, I ask the same questions about response that I ask anywhere else, and I ask a few more:

Does the community patrol receive your alarm signals, or just the gatehouse phone? If it does not receive them, it is not part of your response chain.
Is the patrol allowed to enter your property, and does it have a way in?
How many homes does the patrol cover, and where is it likely to be when your alarm sounds?
Does the gatehouse log visitors to your home in a way you can review after an incident?
Who coordinates between your private team, the community patrol and police when something happens?

Our article on burglary prevention in Hidden Hills looks at these questions in one community. The answers usually show that the community’s security is a helpful outer layer and that the home still needs its own detection and response.

After the response: evidence, insurance and the next time

Response time also matters after the intruders leave. In the Ongar case, as reported, the investigation was filed after CCTV and forensic work did not identify suspects. In the Wilson case, police traced the burglar despite cloned number plates and he was convicted. What happens in the first hour after an intrusion affects which way a case goes.

Preserve footage. Make sure camera recordings from the property, and from neighbors where possible, are saved before they are overwritten.
Keep the scene intact. Do not tidy, touch forced doors or move items before police have seen them.
Know what was there. A current inventory with photographs and serial numbers of watches, jewelry and other valuables helps police, pawn checks and insurers. Many families do not have one.
Review the timeline. Once the immediate response is over, reconstruct each link of the chain with times. Where did the minutes go? Fix that link first.

The review after an incident is where a program improves. A family that measures its response after a real event, honestly, is rarely caught the same way twice.

What families and family offices can do now

Walk the property and list every opening an intruder could use, including upstairs windows reachable from roofs, balconies or trees. Check that each one is detected.
Find out where your alerts go today. If the answer is a phone, decide who will act on them around the clock.
Give your monitoring center or residential team written authority to dispatch and call police without waiting for you.
Make sure responders have codes, keys and a site map, stored securely.
Agree and practise a family plan: do not investigate, gather, lock, call, wait.
Choose and prepare a room that can be locked and that has a way to call for help.
Reduce valuables at home, or store them in a properly rated and anchored safe.
Run a test of your response and measure each link. Repeat it twice a year.
Stop posting the home and the family’s absences online, or delay posts until after you are back.

A security assessment is a sensible place to start, because it puts every link of the chain on one page.

Frequently asked questions

What are high net worth security services for the home?

They are the combination of people, technology and procedures that protect a high net worth family’s residence: assessment, detection, monitoring, residential officers or patrols, delay measures, safe rooms, response plans and coordination with police. Their value is measured largely by how quickly and reliably they detect and respond to an intrusion.

What is a good response time for a residential security program?

It depends on the property, the location and the risk. On-site officers can respond in seconds. Mobile patrols and police take longer and vary by time and place. The useful approach is to measure your actual response time for each scenario, then use layers and delay measures so that help arrives before an intruder can reach people or valuables.

Why do burglars often enter through back doors or upstairs windows?

Because those openings are less visible from the street and are often less protected or not covered by sensors. In the cases described here, police said entry was through a forced back door in one case and an upstairs window in another. Every opening that can be reached should be detected.

What should my family do if someone breaks in while we are home?

Do not investigate. Gather family members, go to a lockable room or safe room, lock the door, call for help or press a panic button, and wait until police or your security team confirm it is safe. If you encounter an intruder, comply.

How do recommended HNW security teams prove their response?

They measure and test it. They can tell you which openings are detected, who verifies alerts, who has authority to dispatch, how long each layer takes to arrive and when they last tested your home.

Winning the minutes back

The Porter Ranch burglary is still under investigation, the Wilson case ended in a four-year sentence, and the Ongar investigation has been filed without suspects. Each, in its own way, is a story about minutes: a burglary nobody detected until the resident came home, an empty house entered through an upstairs window in daylight, and a family home where early warning and a locked door reportedly kept the intruders’ time to about a minute.

High net worth security services should be judged on that clock. Detection on every opening, alerts to someone who acts, fast verification, clear authority, responders who can get in, delay measures that slow intruders down and a family that knows what to do. Each of those is achievable, and each can be tested.

For the wider program, including empty homes, travel, safe rooms and the law enforcement relationship, read our complete 2026 overview of high net worth security. If you want an honest measurement of your own response time, our residential security team can help, and you can contact us for a confidential conversation.

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About Michael Braun

Michael Braun is a former Special Unit Operator, former Manager at Gavin de Becker & Associates, and Founder & CEO of MSB Protection, an executive protection and residential security firm serving high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.

Braun has built his career at the intersection of specialized protective operations, executive protection, residential security, protective intelligence, and security risk management. His experience spans special-unit operations, leadership within Gavin de Becker & Associates, and the development and oversight of private protection programs within demanding UHNW environments.

He has been recognized by The Top 100 Magazine as a leading CEO in the private security field and is the subject of an upcoming Marquis Who’s Who feature highlighting his leadership and contributions to the profession.

Today, Braun is recognized for his work in executive protection, UHNW estate security, residential protection, protective intelligence, adversarial security assessments, and security auditing throughout Beverly Hills and Southern California.

His work focuses on moving private security beyond simply “providing a body” and toward intelligence-led, risk-based protection programs designed to identify vulnerabilities before an adversary can exploit them.

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High Net Worth Security Services and Response Time