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Total Risk Perspective – How corruption impacts natural disasters
In January of 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe Japan. Registering 7.2 on the Richter scale, it was Japans worst earthquake since 1923. Over 400,000 buildings were severely damaged and 5,297 people died.
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Fire Risk in Developing Nations
While wildfires and other natural disasters grab headlines because of their size and scope, urban fires are an all-too common occurrence, especially in developing Asian-Pacific countries. At the extreme, a 2014 garment factory fire in Bangladesh resulted in 1,127 deaths and stands as one of the deadliest industrial fires in modern history. Global statistics confirm the presence of urban fires as a consistent issue. February of this year saw fire ravage the oldest parts of Dhaka in Bangladesh, resulting in 67 deaths. China’s Ministry of Security lists 312,000 fires occurring in the country in 2016. These fires resulted in 1,582 deaths and more than half a billion dollars in damage.
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Brexit Contingency Planning
It’s been nearly two and a half years since United Kingdom voters first declared thatthe UK should leave the European Union. While most large companies began Brexit contingency planning months or even years ago, one of the biggest challenges facing decision-makers today is that they don’t truly know what they’re planning for.
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How Can Your Organization Recover After a Data Breach?
In 2017, a months-long data breach into credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the personal information of more than 143 million Americans. As reported in the media, a number of internal errors led to the hack–including out-of-date software, failure to conduct routine security reviews and refusal to adopt widely used best practices.
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Using Data to Mitigate Wildfire Risk and Drive Down Business Impact
In the United States each year on average, more than 100,000 wildfires clear four to five million acres of land. However, last year wildfires burned more than 10 million acres. And already this year, fires have consumed more than five million acres, with many still burning uncontained. Fires spread quickly due to many factors including drought-conditions resulting in dry, highly-combustible vegetation. But one of the biggest factors is wind.
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How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Business Risks
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is here. Not long ago considered the stuff of Sci-Fi movies and select industries, A.I. has moved into the mainstream. However, many companies have been slow to catch on and see how data can help with the risk analysis of critical business decisions Pinkerton President Jack Zahran and Vice Chairman Tim Williams say that A.I. is forcing companies to rethink their attitudes and embrace data as a key element in their security operations.
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Measuring Security Risks & Business Impact
In the security industry, the concept of measuring risk is a frequent topic for discussion. How best to measure risk is debated and results are dissected to determine if they represent the real situation. In this post, we will look at WHY you should measure risk, how doing so must align with your business goals, and the critical discussions security will bring to the table as you map out annual plans and forecasts.
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How Natural Disasters Can Affect Businesses
In North America, it is hurricane season. And this season has had more storms hit land, thereby affecting people, property, and businesses, than any in recent memory. But not your company. You are safely hundreds or thousands of miles away. So while you grieve for those suffering, you can still rest easy knowing that the storms will have no effect on your business. Are you sure?
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World's Riskiest & Most Dangerous Countries for Business
What is the riskiest, most dangerous country in the world? That depends on how you measure risk. Do you consider a tornado more threatening to your business than a computer network hack? Perhaps you believe kidnapping is more life-endangering than the potential for workplace violence. One’s risk perspective tends to be viewed as being subjective. That being said, we’ve long believed risk can be measured and we set out to do just that. The result? Our recently released World Risk Index report. Based on our findings, this post will examine why some countries were determined to be at higher risk or more unsafe to conduct business…and in what ways…than other countries.
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Water & Security: Flooding & Business Continuity
This is the second in Pinkerton’s Water and Security Series, begun during Earth Month (April 2016), looking at how water affects business security and continuity.
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Smart Toy Hacks Raise Industry Concerns - Updated
(Update adds recent Google action regarding the removal of malicious apps from its Google Play Store) Security researcher Chris Vickery on December 19, 2015 claimed to discover a leaked database of more than 3.3 million user accounts of Sanriotown.com, and other Sanrio-owned websites like hellokitty.com and mymelody.com. Sanrio is the Tokyo-based owner of the Hello Kitty toy and accessories franchise, and its customers include both children and adults. The incident is similar to a November 2015 hack against servers linked to Hong Kong-based electronic toy maker VTech; one of the largest data breaches recorded against a toy company. VTech admitted on November 14 there was “unauthorized access” to its database server that stored information from its Learning Lodge app. Details of more than 10 million customer accounts worldwide – including 6.3 million child user profiles – were affected by the data breach. In both cases, the compromised details included customer names, email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, mailing addresses, and download histories. It is unclear if any financial records were also stolen. At least one person has reportedly been detained in connection with the VTech hack by authorities in the United Kingdom. In the VTech case, an unidentified hacker claimed in an interview that pictures of children were stolen using the devices’ cameras. However, this has not yet been confirmed. At least two U.S. state governments have launched a probe into the incident, along with authorities in Hong Kong. This serves as a reminder of some of the serious challenges posed by smart toys, and other children’s devices that are connected to the internet and susceptible to hacking.
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Threat vs Vulnerability vs Risk: What Is The Difference?
In today’s world, if you are a CEO, COO, government official, or in other leadership positions that can implement change in your organization, we at Pinkerton believe it is crucial to maintain a diligent overview and understanding of risk, threat and vulnerability. There are many articles and blog posts written that attempt to define each of these three terms individually, however it is the interactive relationship of all three of these components that combine to create the initial evaluation and recommended action plan for risk management. As the person in charge of the oversight for the security of your organization, the more that you can rationalize this process - in a way similar to the approach of a professional high level security expert - the better is your understanding and interpretation of the results of their security audits, as well as your ability to implement their findings in a way most suited to your own company or institution.
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Hong Kong Government Talks With Protesters
Starting September 26, protests carried out by a large number of pro-democracy activists led by the Occupy Central Movement (OCM) and the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) took place in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China. These protests have resulted in the blockade of roads, disruption of bus and tram services, and closure of government offices and schools.
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Holistic Security: The Risk Wheel
Threats to your business are not just local any more. The way we connect ourselves and our businesses through information sharing, the accessibility we enjoy through mobile technology and the ease by which people, products and information moves across borders creates vulnerability. International events in far off countries can affect a farming business in the U.S. Unrest in one community, region or nation can create downtime for thousands of businesses, which in turn affects the businesses/customers they serve.
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Supply Chain Threats Across Borders
A supply chain is the entire process of taking raw ingredients, manufacturing products from them and distributing the end products to consumers. Along the way, there are many opportunities for the supply chain to be compromised, resulting in down-time, lost/stolen products and other factors that can have a widespread impact on the company’s operation. Our global economy demands that products are brought in and sent out across borders. This creates risk. The automotive industry is an example of one where the supply chain has seen an increase in supply chain risk.
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