Home Security for High Net Worth Individuals: The Arrival

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

Home security for high net worth individuals begins before the car reaches the gate

Home security for high net worth individuals is usually planned from the inside out: the safe room, the alarm, the doors, the fence. The moment that gets the least attention is the one when the family is neither inside nor safely away: the last hundred yards of the drive home, the wait at the gate, the walk from the car to the door. Two killings at home gates in Uganda in the past ten days, and an armed robbery beside a parked car on a residential street in West Hollywood, are a hard reminder of how exposed that moment can be.

On Saturday, October 17, 2026, at about 11 p.m., a businessman and his wife were shot dead at the gate of their home in Kisoro Municipality, in south-western Uganda, as they returned from their wholesale shop. The Daily Monitor reported that, according to police, the husband tried to reverse their pickup to escape an armed attacker, but the narrow neighborhood road prevented him from turning back. The couple abandoned the vehicle and tried to flee on foot, and the gunman opened fire.

A week earlier, on October 10, a 47-year-old businessman was shot dead by gunmen as he arrived at his gate in Kyengera Town Council, near Kampala, after leaving work with his wife and son, Kyaggwe TV reported. And in Los Angeles, NBC Los Angeles reported on October 13 that four masked men had confronted a man at gunpoint as he returned to his vehicle on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood early that Monday. Police arrested four suspects shortly afterward and recovered a replica firearm.

These are very different places, and I am careful about drawing simple comparisons between a border town in Uganda and a residential street in West Hollywood. The motives in the Ugandan cases had not been established when the reports were published; police said robbery was being considered as a possible motive in Kisoro. What the cases share is the setting: a person arriving at or returning to a vehicle near home, at night or in the early hours, in a place an attacker could predict.

This article supports the sections on vehicles, arrivals and departures and on home security for high net worth individuals in our complete 2026 overview of high net worth security. The pillar explains why so many attacks start at the car door. This article looks specifically at the arrival home: the road, the gate, the driveway and the walk to the front door.

For the car door in general, read our piece on close protection for UHNW families after a crypto kidnap. For arrivals at offices and other fixed places, see personal security for high networth individuals at work. Here the destination is the home itself.

Dark SUV turns through an opening estate gate on a narrow lit lane at night as an officer seen from behind watches

Key takeaways

The arrival home is one of the predictable moments of any day. The address is fixed, the time is often regular and the car must slow down and stop.
In Kisoro, police said the husband could not reverse away from the attacker because the road was too narrow to turn. The geometry of the approach decides whether escape is possible.
Waiting at the gate is the problem. Every second a car sits outside a closed gate is a second it is boxed in.
Night arrivals after work, often with family members or staff in the car, were the setting for both Ugandan cases.
A predictable return from a business, possibly with the day’s takings, is a pattern attackers can learn. Police in Kisoro said the attacker demanded money from the shop attendant.
Home security for high net worth individuals should include the approach road, the gate and the driveway, not just the house: lighting, cameras that see the street, a gate that opens on arrival and space to turn away.
Recommended HNW security teams treat every arrival as a small operation with a call ahead, a watched approach and a gate that never makes the car wait.

What happened in three recent cases

I will keep to what has been published and attributed to police. No arrests had been reported in the Ugandan cases at the time of the reports I cite.

Kisoro: cornered on a narrow road

According to the Daily Monitor, police spokesperson ACP Kituuma Rusoke said on Monday, October 19, that Africano Nteziyaremye and his wife, Peace Kyompeire, were attacked at their gate by an armed assailant as they returned home with their shop attendant. Nteziyaremye tried to maneuver their pickup in reverse to flee, but the narrow neighborhood road prevented him from turning back. The couple left the vehicle and tried to flee on foot, and the gunman opened fire, killing both. “The attacker reportedly demanded money from the shop attendant and searched the victims before fleeing,” Rusoke said. Police said robbery was being considered as a possible motive.

The attack happened at around 11 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, in Zindiro Cell, Kamonyi Ward, in Kisoro Municipality’s Northern Division. The couple ran a well-known wholesale shop in Kisoro town. Pulse Uganda reported the same police account and said police had made no arrests by October 18. Kigezi regional police spokesperson Nelson Tumushime told the Monitor that detectives and a canine unit had examined the scene and appealed for information. Kisoro’s deputy resident district commissioner, Dan Ndikumwami, called for better transport for security teams, saying the district needed at least a police patrol car in each of its five constituencies to respond to criminal acts.

Kyengera: shot on arrival at the gate

According to Kyaggwe TV, police in Nsangi were investigating the fatal shooting of Ssekandi Edirisa, 47, a businessman who was attacked by unidentified gunmen as he arrived at his home in Manja Cell, Kyengera Town Council, Wakiso District. Preliminary police information said the incident happened at about 11 p.m. on October 10, 2026, shortly after he, his wife and his son left their workplace at Kiteemu Trading Centre and drove home in a Subaru Forester. The assailants attacked the family on arrival at the gate and shot him, and he died at the scene. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson SP Racheal Kawala said investigations had begun. The motive and the identity of the attackers had not been established.

West Hollywood: returning to the car

NBC Los Angeles reported that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded early on Monday, October 13, to a reported robbery in the 1100 block of Poinsettia Place. Investigators said a man was returning to his vehicle when four men wearing masks got out of a black BMW, pointed a firearm at him and demanded his property, then drove off. Shortly afterward, LAPD officers stopped a speeding black BMW on Melrose that turned out to be the suspects’ vehicle. Four suspects were taken into custody, and items taken from the victim and a replica firearm were recovered. The sheriff’s department said extra patrols had been added after recent robberies in the area.

In none of these cases did the attackers need to get inside a house. They needed to be where the person would arrive.

Why the arrival home is an exposed moment

When I walk a property with a new client, I always ask to drive the approach with them at the time they usually come home. Not the front door. The road. The last turn, the stretch before the gate, the place where the car stops, the walk to the door. That drive tells me more about the family’s exposure than the alarm panel does.

The arrival home combines almost every factor that makes a moment dangerous:

A fixed place. The address does not change. Anyone who knows it can wait there without following anyone.
A predictable time. Many people come home at roughly the same time every day, especially when they run a business with regular hours, as both Ugandan families did.
Loss of speed. The car must slow, turn and stop. A moving car is hard to attack. A stopped car is not.
Distraction. People arriving home are thinking about dinner, the children, the phone call they have to make. Their guard is down because they are almost safe.
Open doors. Gates open, car doors open, the front door opens. Each is a moment when barriers are not working.
Company. The arrival often involves family members or staff: a spouse, a child, an employee. In Kyengera, the businessman was with his wife and son. In Kisoro, the couple were with their shop attendant.

Attackers do not need to understand any of this in theory. They simply observe that the target comes home at the same time to the same gate and has to stop there.

The geometry of the approach

The detail from Kisoro that I keep coming back to is the road. According to police, the husband tried to reverse the pickup to escape, and the narrow road prevented him from turning back. Whatever else happened, the shape of the approach removed the option of driving away.

I look at every approach with that question in mind: if something is wrong at the gate, can the car get away?

Dead ends and narrow lanes

Many desirable homes sit at the end of private lanes, cul-de-sacs or narrow canyon roads. Those settings feel private and safe. They also mean there is one way in and one way out. If an attacker or a vehicle blocks the lane behind you, the car is trapped between the obstruction and the gate.

Turning space

Where the road is narrow, can a car turn at the gate, or does it have to reverse a long way? A turning area just outside the gate, or a gate set back from the road with enough space to swing around, can make the difference between leaving and being stuck.

Sight lines

Can the driver see the gate area clearly before committing to the final approach? Hedges, walls, parked cars and bends can hide someone waiting until the last moment. In my experience, a driver who sees a problem fifty yards out has choices. A driver who sees it at the gate usually does not.

Lighting

Both Ugandan attacks happened at about 11 p.m. A dark approach favors whoever is waiting. Good lighting at the gate and along the final approach, combined with cameras that can see in low light, takes away that advantage and gives the people inside the house a view of what is happening.

Home security for high net worth individuals rarely starts with the road, because the road is often outside the property line. It should still be part of the assessment. What you cannot change, you plan around.

The gate: waiting is the problem

A weakness I see at residences again and again is a gate that makes the car wait. The driver arrives, presses a remote or a keypad, and sits in the street while a heavy gate swings open slowly. During those seconds, the car is stationary, in a predictable place, with the occupants facing forward and the street behind them.

Practical fixes include:

Open on approach. The gate is opened by someone inside, by a residential officer or by a system linked to the car, so that it is already open or opening as the car arrives.
Faster gates. Gate speed is a design choice. Slow, heavy gates look impressive and cost time.
A vehicle holding area inside. Where space allows, an inner area where the car can stop inside the first gate, which closes behind it, before the second gate or the garage opens. Security people sometimes call this a sally port.
Close behind. The gate closes as soon as the car is through, and the driver or officer watches it close, so that no one walks in behind.
No keypad rituals in the open. If a code must be entered, the keypad is positioned so the driver does not have to lean out of the window or get out of the car.

The aim is simple: the car should never sit still outside a closed gate.

Night arrivals after work

Both Ugandan families were returning from their businesses late in the evening. Many business owners, in Uganda and in Los Angeles alike, work long hours and come home after dark. That pattern is visible to anyone who watches the business or the house for a few days.

For families whose principal regularly comes home late, the arrival plan matters particularly at night. Simple changes make a real difference:

Vary the time of arrival within a window, so the exact minute is not predictable.
Vary the route for the last part of the journey where the road network allows it.
Call ahead, or have the driver call ahead, so that someone at the house watches the approach on camera and opens the gate.
If something looks wrong on approach, such as a parked car with people in it, a figure near the gate or lights out that are normally on, do not stop. Drive past, go to a pre-agreed safe place, and call the residential team or police.
Turn on the approach lighting before arrival, not after.

That fourth point is the one I drill again and again with families and drivers. The instinct is to get home. The safer choice, when the approach looks wrong, is to keep moving.

Who else is in the car

In Kyengera, the businessman was driving home with his wife and son. In Kisoro, the couple had their shop attendant with them. Arrivals home are often family moments, and the people in the car are part of the risk and part of the plan.

Private security for high net worth family members has to account for this. Children in the back seat cannot react as adults can. A staff member in the car may be targeted for what they carry or know. A spouse arriving separately, later, faces the same gate alone.

In the homes we protect, the arrival plan covers every regular arrival, not just the principal’s: the school run returning in the afternoon, the spouse coming back from an evening commitment, the nanny bringing the children home from an activity, the house manager returning with shopping. Each one passes through the same gate, at a known time.

Coming home from the business

Both Ugandan victims were business owners returning from their shops. Police in Kisoro said the attacker demanded money from the shop attendant and searched the victims before fleeing, and that robbery was being considered as a possible motive. I am not in a position to say what the attacker expected to find. I can say that a predictable journey from a business to a home, possibly carrying cash or valuables, is a pattern criminals look for in many countries.

For business owners, including the owners of retail, hospitality, jewelry and cash-intensive businesses in Los Angeles, a few habits reduce that exposure:

Do not carry the day’s takings home. Use bank deposits, armored collection or a secure arrangement at the business.
If valuables must travel, vary the timing and route, and do not travel alone.
Keep the connection between the business and the home address as private as possible. Staff, customers and suppliers do not need to know where the owner lives.
Assume that anyone who watches the business can follow the owner home. Counter-surveillance awareness from the driver or a protector helps.

Personal security for high networth individuals who run businesses has to cover the journey between the two, not just each building separately.

The street outside: the West Hollywood case

The West Hollywood robbery, as reported by NBC Los Angeles, happened as a man returned to his vehicle on a residential block in the early hours. Four masked men got out of a car and pointed a firearm at him. The suspects were caught quickly, and the gun turned out to be a replica, but the victim could not have known that.

Not every family has a gated driveway. Many people in Los Angeles park on the street, in shared garages or in driveways open to the road, particularly in West Hollywood, Hollywood and parts of the Westside. For them, the walk between the car and the front door is the arrival. The same principles apply: good lighting, cameras that see the street, awareness of vehicles that are occupied or idling nearby, keys ready, minimal time standing at the car, and a willingness to drive on if something looks wrong.

NBC Los Angeles noted that the West Hollywood robbery came less than a week after another widely reported robbery in the area, and that the sheriff’s department had added patrols. When incidents cluster in a neighborhood, families should tighten their own arrival habits for a while rather than waiting for patrols to make the difference.

The walk from the car to the front door

Even when the car is safely inside the gate, the arrival is not finished. Many properties have a gap between where the car stops and the front door: a courtyard, a path, a set of steps, a dark side entrance used by the family to avoid the formal front door. That walk is often done with arms full of bags, children half asleep and keys in a pocket.

A few habits close the gap:

Park as close to the door as the property allows, ideally in a garage that connects to the house.
Keep the path lit, with lighting triggered before arrival rather than by motion sensors that come on as you walk.
Have keys or access cards ready before getting out of the car.
If a residential officer is on duty, they meet the car or watch the walk on camera.
Bring children and bags in after the adults have checked the door and the immediate area.
Lock the door behind you immediately. Do not leave it open while unloading.

These steps take seconds once they become habit. They also make it much harder for someone who has slipped onto the property earlier, or followed the car through the gate, to reach the family at the door.

Departures: the same gate in reverse

Everything said about arrivals applies, in reverse, to departures. The family leaves through the same gate at predictable times: the school run in the morning, the drive to work, the evening out. The car stops at the gate while it opens. The street outside may have someone waiting.

The departure procedure is a mirror of the arrival: someone checks the street on camera before the gate opens, the gate opens as the car is ready, the car does not wait in the open, and the driver knows where to go if something looks wrong. In some homes the morning departure is actually the more predictable of the two, because school and work start at fixed times. It deserves the same attention.

Deliveries, visitors and the open gate

Arrivals and departures are not always the family’s. Deliveries, gardeners, pool technicians, guests and drivers all use the gate. Each time it opens, it opens for whoever is near it. A gate that opens for a delivery van while a car waits behind it on the street, or that stays open for a contractor all afternoon, is no longer a barrier.

Practical rules help here too: deliveries are received at a point outside the main gate or in a controlled area, contractors use a separate entrance where one exists, the gate is closed between uses, and no one opens the gate for an unannounced visitor. Our article on vendor access control covers how to manage the people who come through the gate every week.

Southern California approaches

In Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, I see the same approach problems in different forms. Hillside homes in the Hollywood Hills, Bel Air and Beverly Crest often sit on narrow, winding roads with limited turning space and poor sight lines, exactly the geometry that worries me after reading the Kisoro account. Malibu properties may sit at the end of long private drives with one way in. Gated communities in the Valley and Conejo Valley add an outer gate but still leave the family stopping at their own gate inside.

Each of these settings can be planned for. On narrow hillside roads, the priority is turning space, lighting and a watched approach. On long private drives, it is cameras at the road end, so the house knows who has turned in. In gated communities, it is coordination between the community gatehouse and the family’s own arrival procedure, so that the outer gate is not mistaken for the whole of the protection.

Technology at the gate: what helps and what does not

Families often ask which gate technology to buy. My answer is that technology helps when it shortens the time the car is exposed or improves what the house can see, and does little when it simply adds features.

What tends to help:

Cameras with clear night images that cover the street in both directions and the final approach, viewable on a monitor inside the house and by the residential team.
Gate controls that let someone inside open the gate before the car arrives.
Faster, reliable gate motors with battery backup, so the gate does not fail during a power cut.
Approach lighting on a schedule or triggered remotely before arrival.
An intercom with video at the pedestrian gate, so nobody needs to walk out to speak to a visitor.

What tends to help less than people expect:

Cameras that record but that nobody watches in real time. They help investigations afterward but do not change the arrival.
Complex access systems that slow the driver down at the gate.
Motion-triggered lights that come on as the car arrives, rather than before, so the driver sees the approach late.

Home security for high net worth individuals at the gate is less about the cleverness of the system and more about whether a person can see the approach and open the way in before the car stops. Technology that supports that person is worth having. Technology that replaces them usually leaves the gap open.

How a professional program handles arrivals

When MSB Protection sets up a residential program, the arrival home is written down as a procedure, the same way a night routine or a visitor policy is. It is short, and everyone who drives family members knows it. The elements are always similar.

The call ahead

A few minutes before arrival, the driver, protector or family member sends a short message to the residential team or the house: on the way, expected time, which vehicle. That message starts the arrival procedure. If it does not come, and the car appears, the team treats the arrival with extra care.

The watched approach

When the message arrives, someone checks the approach: cameras covering the street, the gate and the final stretch of road, and where appropriate an officer on foot at the gate. They look for parked cars with people in them, people standing near the gate, vehicles that seem to be waiting, anything unusual. If they see something, they tell the car before it arrives, and the car goes to a pre-agreed alternative location.

The gate opens on arrival

The gate is opened from inside as the car approaches, so it never waits in the street. A residential officer watches the street as the car enters and confirms the gate has closed behind it.

Doors open inside, not outside

Car doors open once the car is inside the perimeter, ideally in a garage or covered area close to the house. Passengers do not get out at the gate to collect mail or speak to a neighbor.

A planned exit if something is wrong

Every driver knows where they will go if they cannot enter: a nearby location with people, lighting and ideally a security presence, such as a police station, a hotel or a manned building. That decision is made in advance, not in the moment.

For families with protectors, the protector handles these steps with the residential team. For families without a protection detail, the same procedure can be run with a residential officer, a monitoring center with camera access or, at minimum, a family member at home who watches the approach on camera and opens the gate.

Reviewing arrivals after the fact

One habit that separates a working arrival plan from a plan on paper is the review. Once a week, someone on the team goes through the gate camera footage and the arrival log together and asks plain questions. How long did vehicles wait at the gate? Were there arrivals nobody called ahead for? Did the same unfamiliar car appear on the lane more than once? Was the gate left open after a delivery, and for how long? Did the lighting at the entrance work every night, or did a fixture fail and stay dark for a week?

The answers are rarely dramatic. In a typical week the review turns up a delivery driver who lingered, a timer that drifted or a family member who stopped at the curb to finish a call. Those small things are the point. Each one is a few seconds of exposure that can be removed before it matters, and over a few months the arrival gets tighter without anyone in the family having to think about it. This is part of what our in-house research and development work feeds into at MSB Protection: we look at how arrivals actually happen on a given property, not how they were supposed to happen, and adjust the plan to match.

When the review finds something that cannot be explained, such as a vehicle that keeps appearing near arrival times, it goes to the person responsible for protective intelligence and, where it makes sense, to local police. The family does not need to see every entry in the log. They need to know someone is reading it.

Home security for high net worth individuals: designing the entrance

Many of the improvements that matter at arrival are physical. When I advise on new construction or renovation, I look at the entrance as a security system in its own right.

Setback. A gate set back from the road gives the car space to leave the traffic lane and, ideally, to turn around if needed.
Turning space. On narrow lanes, a widened area near the gate allows a car to reverse and turn. The Kisoro account shows why that matters.
Two gates. On larger properties, an outer and inner gate with a holding area between them means the car is inside a barrier before the second gate opens.
Gate speed and reliability. Gates that open quickly and do not fail. A gate that sticks at the wrong moment is worse than no gate.
Lighting. Even, bright lighting at the gate and along the final approach, without dark pockets.
Cameras that look outward. Cameras that cover the street and the approach, not just the property, with night capability and recording that is retained.
Landscaping. Hedges and walls that give privacy without giving cover to someone waiting near the gate.
Covered parking near the house. A garage or carport that allows people to get out of the car out of sight of the street and close to the door.

Our residential security assessments include the approach and entrance for exactly this reason. Our article on residential security officers covers the people side of the gate.

Personal security for high networth individuals who drive themselves

Many principals drive themselves, especially at weekends and in the evening. The arrival procedure still applies, in simpler form:

Let someone at home know when you are on your way.
Keep the gate remote within reach and open the gate as you approach, not when you stop.
Slow down before the final turn and look at the approach. If something looks wrong, drive on.
Keep doors locked and windows up until the car is inside the gate.
Do not sit in the car in the driveway finishing a phone call. Get inside, then call.
If you are followed, do not drive home. Drive to a place with people and lights, and call police.

Personal security for high networth individuals is often thought of as something provided by a team. These habits are the part each person carries alone.

Close protection for UHNW families at arrival

For families with close protection, arrival is one of the moments the detail plans with particular care, because it is so predictable. The protector or security driver controls the final approach, coordinates with the residential team, watches the street, positions the car and decides whether the principal gets out.

Close protection for UHNW families includes the arrival of other family members too. If the principal is protected and the spouse drives home alone at night through the same gate, the family’s exposure has moved, not shrunk. The protection plan should decide, based on the threat picture, which arrivals need a driver, which need a watched approach and which need nothing more than the procedure described above.

Our article on security drivers for UHNW families explains how a trained driver handles approaches, including what they do when something looks wrong.

Private security for high net worth family members arriving separately

Families do not arrive together. The children come home from school with a nanny. A teenager drives home from practice. A grandparent arrives for the weekend. The house manager returns from errands. Each arrival is a gate opening and a car stopping.

Private security for high net worth family members should give each regular arrival its own simple plan:

Who is arriving, when and in which vehicle.
Who opens the gate and watches the approach.
What the driver does if something looks wrong.
Where the alternative safe location is.
How the driver tells the house they have arrived safely.

For teenagers who drive, a short conversation about arrivals is worth more than any technology. Our piece on school run security for UHNW children covers the journey that ends at the gate every afternoon.

Security for UHNW family offices: owning the arrival protocol

Security for UHNW family offices often focuses on schedules, payments and staff. The arrival protocol is a small item that belongs on the same list. The family office can:

Ask the residential provider to write down the arrival procedure for each property.
Make sure every driver, family member who drives and member of staff who drives the family knows it.
Fund the physical fixes at the entrance where the assessment identifies them: lighting, faster gates, cameras on the approach, turning space.
Keep the family’s regular arrival times out of shared calendars and messages that do not need them. Our article on guarding the family office schedule explains how schedules leak.
Review the procedure after any incident in the neighborhood, as the West Hollywood case suggests.

Family office high net worth individuals security works when small procedures like this one have an owner.

High net worth security services for the approach

When families ask what high net worth security services should cover at the home, I include the approach explicitly. A program that protects the house and ignores the road outside has left a gap at one of the predictable moments of the day.

Services that cover the approach include assessment of the road and entrance, camera coverage of the street, lighting design, gate upgrades, arrival procedures, driver training, residential officers who watch arrivals and monitoring that can see the approach in real time.

What recommended HNW security teams do at the gate

When families ask me what separates recommended HNW security teams from others, I sometimes answer with the gate. Watch how a team handles an ordinary arrival on an ordinary evening:

Did someone know the car was coming?
Did someone look at the street before it arrived?
Was the gate open on arrival, or did the car wait?
Did someone watch the gate close?
Did the family get out of the car inside the perimeter?
Does the driver know where to go if something is wrong?

Teams that get these small things right every day tend to get the large things right on the rare day they matter. At MSB Protection, our in-house research and development team works on methods to counter threats to UHNW clients, including how we design and test arrival procedures, approach coverage and gate operations at the homes we protect.

If you are confronted at the gate

I want to be careful here, because I do not know what happened in the final seconds in Kisoro or Kyengera beyond what police have said, and I will not second-guess people who were facing a gun at night. Every situation is different, and there is no rule that fits all of them.

The general advice I give families is this:

The time to avoid a confrontation is before it starts: on the approach, by noticing something wrong and driving on.
If you can safely drive away, the car itself is usually your protection. That is why turning space and an open escape route matter so much.
If you are confronted and cannot leave, and the demand is for property, give it. Watches, wallets, phones and cars can be replaced.
Once the attackers leave, get inside or to a safe place, call police and get medical help for anyone hurt.

Families rehearse this kind of decision in calm conditions so they are not deciding for the first time in the worst moment.

What families and family offices can do now

Drive your own approach at the time you usually come home. Look at the road, the turning space, the lighting and the places someone could wait.
Time your gate. If the car waits more than a few seconds, find a way to open it on approach.
Agree a call-ahead habit with everyone who drives family members.
Pick an alternative safe location near the home for each driver to go to if the approach looks wrong.
Check that your cameras see the street and the approach, not just the driveway, and that night images are usable.
Improve lighting at the gate and along the final approach.
Do not get out of the car outside the gate. Collect mail and talk to neighbors another time.
For business owners, stop carrying takings home and keep the business and home addresses separate in public.
Ask your security provider to include the approach and arrivals in your next security assessment.

Frequently asked questions

Why is arriving home a high-risk moment?

Because the address is fixed, the time is often predictable, the car has to slow and stop, doors and gates open and people relax because they are almost home. An attacker can wait at the gate without following anyone.

What does home security for high net worth individuals include at the gate?

It includes the approach road, turning space, lighting, cameras that see the street, a gate that opens on arrival and closes behind the car, covered parking near the house and an arrival procedure that everyone who drives the family knows.

What should I do if something looks wrong as I approach my home?

Do not stop. Drive past, go to a pre-agreed safe place with people and lighting, and call your residential team or police. Return when someone has checked the approach.

How do recommended HNW security teams handle arrivals?

They treat each arrival as a small operation: a call ahead, a watched approach, a gate that opens as the car arrives, doors that open inside the perimeter and a planned exit if something is wrong.

Do I need close protection to make arrivals safer?

Not necessarily. Many improvements come from design and habit: lighting, faster gates, cameras on the approach, a call-ahead procedure and the willingness to drive on. Close protection for UHNW families adds a trained person to manage the arrival, which is appropriate when the threat picture calls for it.

Making the last hundred yards safe

The killings in Kisoro and Kyengera are still under investigation, and the motives had not been established when the reports were published. The West Hollywood robbery ended in quick arrests. Each case, in its own setting, shows how much can happen in the short distance between the road and the front door.

Home security for high net worth individuals should not stop at the property line. The approach, the gate, the driveway and the walk to the door are part of the home, and they can be planned: a call ahead, a watched approach, lighting, a gate that never makes the car wait, room to turn away and a family that knows to keep driving when something looks wrong.

For the wider program, including vehicles, the car door, home security and close protection, read our complete 2026 overview of high net worth security. If you would like us to drive your approach with you and review your arrivals, 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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