Should executive laptops get extra monitoring?

Usually yes, because they hold the most valuable mailbox and files and travel the most. The first measures are on the device and the account: phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, full-disk encryption, endpoint protection with someone reading its alerts, automatic updates, and a clear rule for what to do if the laptop is lost. Executives are also the usual target of payment-fraud e-mails, which no network tool stops; a call-back rule for changed bank details does. Network monitoring adds a view of what the laptop does: with the NetSenX agent installed, on Linux or macOS, the laptop's own connections are watched wherever it is, and beaconing, scanning or unusual outbound volume raises an alert, on every plan. That watches the device, not the person, and never reads the content of encrypted traffic. Agree the scope with the executives first, so that the monitoring is a protection they asked for.

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