Corporate Treasury Is Being Rebuilt — and Most CFOs Aren't Ready
Let's talk about the most underrated department in your entire company. Not marketing. Not sales. Not even the C-suite. It's Treasury. Treasury measures the…
Read moreRamblings, Insights, Guides, and Articles
Notes and articles from L. Burke Files on due diligence, financial crime, anti-money laundering, asset recovery, and the business of finding the truth.
How much does it cost to buy your kid’s way into the best private universities?
How much does it cost to buy your kid’s way into the best private universities? L. Burke Files was quoted in an article in Ladders “How much does it cost to…
Read moreWhat Was The OECD Thinking
What Was The OECD Thinking The OECD recently blacklisted another group of countries for their Economic Citizenship Programs. L. Burke Files authored an…
Read moreFreelancers and Collection Agencies
Freelancers and Collection Agencies A few quotes on Business News Daily on how and when a Freelancer should use a collection agency. Link to Story Pdf of…
Read moreQuote In Univision on Real Estate Due Diligence
Quote In Univision on Real Estate Due Diligence https://www.univision.com/univision-news/latin-america/trump-org-magnet-for-dirty-businessmen pdf version I…
Read moreRussian Officials Tied To Danske Bank - Polish Radio
Russian Officials Tied To Danske Bank - Polish Radio L. Burke Files was quoted in the story on how Russian officials may have been using Danske Bank Link to…
Read moreQuote in Berlingske on Russian Mirror Trading
Quote in Berlingske on Russian Mirror Trading https://www.business.dk/finans/whistleblower-alert-putin-family-and-russian-intelligence-used-danske-bank-to…
Read moreUnderstanding Information
Understanding Information Financial structures and transactions leave clues much like a deer walking through a forest. One needs the experienced eye of a…
Read moreL. Burke Files and the AACI in Jordan
L. Burke Files and the AACI in Jordan December 6th I gave a presentation in Jordan on behalf of the American Anti-Corruption Institute . It was a direct and…
Read moreBerlingske Business: Internal letter indicates Danske Bank hid suspicious clients from authorities in money-laundering scandal
L. Burke Files was quoted in an article by Berlingske Business: Internal letter indicates Danske Bank hid suspicious clients from authorities in…
Read moreStarting a Business, What is Most Important?
Starting a Business, What is Most Important? My dear friend Ethan Fialkow and I had a wide-ranging, long-lasting discussion about what is most important in…
Read moreWhen Did Danske Bank Discover Money Laundering?
When Did Danske Bank Discover Money Laundering? I was quoted in a fascinating story surrounding actions at Danske Bank in 2014 and how the bank was dealing…
Read moreFrom Azerbaijan with love and money
From Azerbaijan with love and money I was privileged to assist, as a fiscal interpreter, the reporters who broke the story on money flowing from Azerbaijan…
Read moreNew money laundering case: Billions from dictatorship flowed through Danske Bank
New money laundering case: Billions from dictatorship flowed through Danske Bank - PDF Version Ny hvidvask-sag: Milliarder fra diktatur strømmede gennem…
Read moreChecklist Are Great - Or are they?
Checklist Are Great - Or are they? Checklists can be helpful or lead us into system compounding cascading errors. So environments are they effect and what…
Read moreAccounting Firms and Non-Core Services
Accounting Firms and Non-Core Services I am seeing more and more overreach by accounting firms try to be everything to all firms while they failing even in…
Read moreA Guru in Zimbabwe
A Guru In Zimbabwe It seems I made the Press in Zimbabwe here are links to the two stories. http://www.herald.co.zw/category/articles/business/ - link to…
Read moreSale Side Due Diligence
Sale Side Due Diligence I was asked to contribute to an article on Sale Side Due Diligence. It is an overlooked fact that businesses who take the time to…
Read moreInternational Bodyguard Association - moving forward
International Bodyguard Association - moving forward International Bodyguard Association - moving forward - pdf version…
Read moreBig Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance
Big Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance. A nice quote in ZDNet.…
Read moreSMEs Expanding Internationally
SMEs Expanding Internationally face many know challenges, we call those Elephants Risks, because everyone can see them. The SMEs also face devastating…
Read moreBritish banks handled vast sums of laundered Russian money
British banks handled vast sums of laundered Russian money, in the Guardian Newspaper is an article on issues related to the Russian Laundromat Cases. They…
Read moreManners Matter
Manners Matter When looking to grow one's social or professional circles, manners matter. Article by L. Burke Files Small Business Accelerator
Read moreThe War On Cash: Yet Another Example of Gov’t Trading Liberty for Security
The War On Cash: Yet Another Example of Gov’t Trading Liberty for Security The War On Cash_ Yet Another Example of Gov’t Trading Liberty for Security _…
Read moreFinCEN's update Customer Due Diligence Requirements
FinCEN's update Customer Due Diligence Requirements Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions It can be said to be no big thing, unless…
Read moreRats In Lab Coats
This is serious look at science fraud and how once published the frauds continue even after a study is retracted. IDDO-Rats-In-Lab-Coats
Read moreLetter to the FT
Letter To The FT The Financial Times was kind enough to publish a letter to the editor on crimes and cash and the elimination of the €500 note.…
Read more1MBD FBI gathers clues in massive Goldman Sachs money scandal
I had a nice but small quote in a growing story on 1MBD. FBI gathers clues in massive Goldman Sachs money scandal - as pdf…
Read moreElection Fraud with Rt. Hon Bruce George
Election Fraud with Rt. Hon Bruce George What I am linking to is a video that took two months to plan and two to edit and another to get set up and online.…
Read moreBeyond The Lease Agreement
Beyond The Lease Agreement A podcast, with the International Due Diligence Organization, focused on what to look into beyond the just lease agreement. Here…
Read moreForces of Bank Disintermediation
Forces of Bank Disintermediation By way of protecting their legal monopoly in the west banks are forcing themselves out of the market. The forces are…
Read moreSo What is it Worth
So What Is It Worth A post with the International Due Diligence Organization on "What Is It Worth"? A discussion on why we need appraisals and why some of…
Read moreIDDO AND THE KINESIC INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE
IDDO AND THE KINESIC INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE I want to share an excellent white paper on Interviewing and Interrogation by D. Glen Foster, the renown…
Read moreHE OBVIOUSLY CANT REMEMBER WHERE HE PUT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!
HE OBVIOUSLY CANT REMEMBER WHERE HE PUT IT !!!!!!!!!!!! http://divorcelifeline.co.uk/remember-put/ L. Burke Files quoted
Read moreDue Diligence and the Future of Financial Institutions
Due Diligence and the Future of Financial Institutions I have spent the last two months traveling around Europe, the Middle East and Africa looking at…
Read moreA Greek tragedy and an EU crime
A Greek tragedy and an EU crime from Cayman Financial Review An article co-authored by L. Burke Files, with Mohammed Masoud on the Greek debt crusts and its…
Read moreDue Diligence – Studies Show…
Due Diligence – Studies Show… We have just finished a series of three very difficult cases. The common theme in each case involved either a “survey” on…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence – The Ultimate Risk
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 I have been traveling a great deal and advising some companies on due diligence processes to…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 Understanding Your Competitor’s Slackers The best way to understand a company is to look at the…
Read moreExecutive Protection – Scare at T2C Paris
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 After a short stay in Paris, all my stays are too Shortt. I began the day with packing and…
Read moreTechnical Issues – FinCEN wants Natural Persons
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has proposing rules under the Bank Secrecy…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field – FATCA and the Inadvertently
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 Regulated FATCA is a bad law at the wrong place at the wrong time and it will not be repealed.…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC – Laundering Money with a Hedge Fund
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 Today most retail banks have become very good and I do mean very good at spotting money…
Read moreGuest Column – by Gail Kasper – De--‐Stress With Your Workout:
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews – Goodbye Columbus by Phillip Roth.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 11, November 2014 Goodbye Columbus was the feature story in a collection of short stories published by Phillip…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence – BNP Paribas, The Success of
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 Due Diligence And The Failure Of Management I have just returned from a trip through Europe, the Middle East…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 LinkedIn Premium as a Data Tool LinkedIn is an undisputed success. It is a great tool for reaching out to…
Read moreExecutive Protection –Traveling In the United States
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 When setting up to travel within the United States I look at all of the cities and states we will be visiting…
Read moreTechnical Issues –A Fiber Optic Cable Was Cut
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 It was a short trip through Northern California. During the three days my cell phone did not work and twice in…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field– BART and San Francisco Bay Area
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 Ferries BART is a very good transit system with very outdated payment technology. The machines that accept…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC – Russian Sanctions, A Panel Discussion
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 Link to posted discussion http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bekkercompliancechat/2014/07/30/useu--‐…
Read moreGuest Column – by Gail Kasper – Water ALL The Benefits
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews – AirBNB.com
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 17 Number 08 Airbnb.com is a service dedicated to finding alternative dwelling rentals for the traveler and adventurer who…
Read morePoaching
A short video on wildlife poaching in East Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RBoUes-I8
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence --‐ Market Tells
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 A “tell” is a sign or a signal, intentional or not of an outcome. In gambling players watch…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence --‐
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 Venture Capital I, one of your editors, often invest my time and work with small ventures.…
Read moreExecutive Protection --‐ Palermo
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 I had to unstick a bad deployment from a group of Executive Protection Specialists. A group of…
Read moreTechnical Issues --‐ Stock and Bond Certificates
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 The law has acknowledged bits of tablecloth and the back of napkins as both suitable for…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field --‐ Cash and Revolutions
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 There is a saying on the poster in our office “Come the revolution things will be different, no…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC --‐ Memberships
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 A new form of money laundering is upon us. A small drug operation was busted where all of the…
Read moreGuest Column --‐ Netiquette: Social Site Etiquette For The
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews --‐ Crystal Deodorant
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 12, December 2013 We had an interesting research project on deodorants and in specific the relatively new crystal…
Read moreL. Burke Files Young v Young
L. Burke Files was called as an expert in the matter in the United Kingdom of Young versus Young. The media coverage was crazy big... and as a fun note, I…
Read moreAACI in Qatar - News Coverage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iTQaew1yWU
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence: PEPs
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 PEPs, or Publically Exposed Persons, require enhanced due diligence, NOT because they are more…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence -- The
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 NSA Flap... Do I believe the NSA listens to just about all electronic communication it can get…
Read moreExecutive Protection – ‘Dirty’ Books
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 The article below prompted me to ask a few questions of my more medially trained staff and…
Read moreTechnical Issues -- FLIR, Infrared Cameras
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 Check out this great website (link below), offering a variety of FLIR , Infrared cameras:…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field -- Play to a Draw
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 How many times have you been told you have to “Play to Win”? I have no idea either. Few people…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC -- Policy Manuals
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 Here are a couple of thoughts regarding policy manuals in general. All policy manuals are…
Read moreGuest Column -- By Gail Kasper -- Leadership Development:
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews -- Mugabe’s War Machine, by Paul
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 11, November 2013 Moorcraft and Knox Chitiyo. ISBN--‐13: 978--‐1848844100 p from $18.00 to $35.00 USD Cited from…
Read moreL. Burke Files in Doha, Qatar
L. Burke Files participates in the launch event for the American Anti Corruption Institute in Doha, Qata LBF-in-Qatar - pdf version
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence -- Put down the Checklist and
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 get thinking again… One of your editor’s rants on checklists is people who simply work through…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence -- Don’t
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 Ever Write This Down! Don’t write down plans, don’t use the same password for every account,…
Read moreExecutive Protection -- Executive Protection within the Domestic
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 Estate Some tips on setting up security in the home. It is well--‐advised to be safe when…
Read moreTechnical Issues -- Vietnamese Root Kit
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 This Vietnamese Root Kit, which is also known as the M--‐Root Kit Mobile Hacking Tool, was…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field -- Investigations in Myanmar
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 We have had investigations in far more difficult circumstances but certainly not in a more…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC -- The Trap Of Perverse Incentives
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 An audit was performed on a regional bank in Asia who was doing a great job on big issues.…
Read moreGuest Column -- By Gail Kasper -- 50 Ways To Fix Communication
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews -- Jean--Marie Gustave Le Clézio
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 10, October 2013 Author Our author of choice is Le Clézio, who in our opinion is a very accomplished author. We…
Read moreSanctions
Sanctions SANCTIONS_ACAMS_SEPT2013_SMH An article on Sanctions and Compliance Published in ACAMS Magazine by Shaun Hassett.
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence -- NYSE Listing Exposes Foreign
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 Firms to Liability For Corrupt Practices From a recent filing in US Courts: Broux v.…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence -- How
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 Rampant Bribery Is Corrupting U.S. Immigration Integrity We recently came across an article,…
Read moreExecutive Protection -- Corruption vs. Our Tasks
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 When I was asked to look at corruption and Executive Protectors (EPs), I was thinking about…
Read moreTechnical Issues -- Money For Corruption and Homes Scott Free
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 Money from corrupt players in Latin America, China and the Middle East are flooding into the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field -- Coin Dealer Hung Out On A Shingle
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 For Home Loan Fraud? Recently one of our consultants was asked to opine on the subject of…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC -- Corporate Excuses to Avoid Compliance and
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 Ethics Programs by Michael Volkov Change is difficult. I understand that. Business leaders…
Read moreGuest Column -- By Gail Kasper -- Corruption And The Workplace
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews -- Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 09, September 2013 Rising Corruption in China Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China by…
Read moreIFC - Distributed Due Diligence
IFC - Distributed Due Diligence pdf version - IFC-Review-De-Centralised-Due-Diligence An interesting look at how distributed due diligence / risk…
Read moreIFC Review - July 2013 - Its Your Data Dummy
IFC Review - July 2013 - Its Your Data Dummy Link to IFC Review Article PDF of Same IFC-Review-Information-Protection-It’s-Your-Data-Dummy
Read moreIFC Review - Second Citizenships
IFC Review June 2013 IFC-Review-Due-Diligence-Second-Citizenships - PDF Format IFC Review We Site and Link
Read moreHow To Spot A Start Up Business That Will Fail
How To Spot A Start Up Business That Will Fail GK-How-To-Spot-A-Start-Up-Business-That-Will-Fail-By-L.-Burke-Files This is from Gail Kasper's top One…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Due Diligence, Standards and
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 The Law If the duty to exercise due diligence is fulfilled, you will have a better hand in court…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 Trends In Intellectual Property Loss - A Private Survey Intellectual property loss is defined as…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Do You Need Executive Protection
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 So you are a billionaire - do you need Executive Protection? It not a question of wealth but of…
Read moreTechnical Issues - What Social Media Should I Use?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 As a business person it depends upon where your customers can be found as well as the marketing…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Signs of Money Laundering
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 Laundering money is moving money in such a way that the sole economic purpose behind the movement…
Read moreGuest Column - Gail Kasper, The Law Of Cell Phone Etiquette,
A guest column by Gail Kasper, originally published in the AEGIS e-Journal.
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - Offshore Alert Conference, Miami
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 Offshore Alert, Miami, FL, May 5th to 7th - is going to be one heck of an event. Your editor L.…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC - Too Big To Jail? Well, Maybe Not
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 04, April 2013 According to a Reuter’s news article, dated March 22, 2013, The U.S. Treasury is changing its…
Read moreNY Post, L. Burke Files Quoted
NY Post, L. Burke Files Quoted LBF-03302013-NYPOST.com_ View as a pdf
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Brazilian LTN Bonds
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 Here, for both your edification and reading enjoyment, is a story of yet another scheme of “bogus…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence - No
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 More Saturday Mail A vast majority of those surveyed both in business and at home say that the…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Near Field Communications, Dangers with
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 Cell Phones and Wireless Cards. Technology can be our friend and our aid and, at the same time, it…
Read moreTechnical Issues - Time To Sell Your Business
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 Most businesses are service-based businesses and or, if you will, consultancies. What do you, as…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Academic Doping
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 Academic doping is the off-label use of nootropic drugs “Smart Drugs” for the purposes of…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC - Corruption, How Do We Stop It
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 Corruption is Fiscal Terrorism? I have seen this argument and we have a good deal of empathy for…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - Evernote
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 03, March 2013 Evernote is easily the best known notes app on any platform. You can snap pictures on your phone,…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - A Question Of Due Diligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 The crime of money laundering continues to be a growing area of concern in the United States.…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 United States V Nosal. In United States v. Nosal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Attempted Assassination of Ahmed Dogan
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 This last month there was an attempted assassination of Ahmed Dogan, the leader of the…
Read moreTechnical Issues - Felons In The Workforce
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 In 2010 it is estimated that 19.8 million people representing 8.6% of the population of the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Top Stress Management Techniques
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 You Can Apply NOW Gail Kasper, Author, Television Host, It seems that life just doesn’t get…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC - Newest Iranian Sanction Developments
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 US Treasury Advisory: Iran and the Use of Exchange Houses and Trading Companies to Evade U.S.…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - Hello Kitty Bubbles Gun
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 02, February 2013 It appears that this bubbles gun in the mind of a 5 year old is a weapon of terror. Yep ‐ a…
Read moreJohn Cooke
John Cooke Fraud Report is back. Yeah.... I used to contribute a lot of material to the hard copy, but it is back and it is great and it is online. They…
Read moreDeceptology How To Make Fake Gold Bars
Deceptology How To Make Fake Gold Bars http://www.deceptology.com/2013/01/how-to-make-fake-gold-bars.html L. Burke Files quoted
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - USA 1934 Series Bonds
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 Going back 27 years ago I saw my first 1934 Federal Reserve Note Coupon Bond. I was told the…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 Patent Search Tools Some good resources when doing patent research or looking for help with the…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Bodyguard Arrests 2012
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 Over the years I have amassed a small collection of stories about bodyguards being arrested,…
Read moreTechnical Issues - CMOS terahertz waves
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 IEEE ‐ Abstract of an article... Up until recently, the terahertz frequency range (0.3 to 3THz)…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Build On The Spiritual Side Of Life
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 by Gail Kasper Are we a bunch of robots? No, of course not. We are living, breathing beings who…
Read moreAML, BSA& OFAC – NACHA Banker
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 “Its beginning to look a lot like… fraud! During the end of the year with Holiday celebrations,…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - Sue Doyle, Travel Agent
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 16 Number 01, January 2013 Extraordinaire Your faithful Aegis Editors log a lot of miles each and every year, not a million…
Read moreCertified Due Diligence Professional Training
Preventive Measures , with The International Due Diligence Association Nassau, Bahamas, February 21 & 22
Read moreIFC Review December 2012 Due Diligence; Sanctions and Insurance
IFC Review December 2012 Due Diligence; Sanctions and Insurance IFC-Review-Due-Diligence--and-Insurance - PDF of Article A short piece on Iranian tankers,…
Read moreLuxembourg Chronicle - Interview
I had a short but very interesting interview with the editor of the Luxembourg Chronicle on International Financial Centers titled, Nuggets of Wisdom and…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Preventing Mailing Frauds,
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 Learn to Read a USPS 3602 Phony USPS form 3602 In a recent series of cases I have found publishers…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 Indicator Behavior and Pressures Lead to Problems in Media. Plagiarism, adjective festooned…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Know Your Limits
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 If you agree to lift 110 lbs, and you already know you can lift 150 lbs, there is a reasonable…
Read moreTechnical Issues - The Bribe
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 Xerxes Bribes Ephialtes with women and gold to betray the Spartans to the Persians. Olympics ‐ The…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Family Fitness During The Summer
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 Months: Easy And Fun! by Gail Kasper, Author, Television Host, Certified Fitness Trainer, and…
Read moreAML, BSA& OFAC – HSBC Screwed Up Really Big.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 Shortly after you read this HSBC will have settled with the US regulators for allowing Iran to…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - The Trust by Norb Vonnegut
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 8, August 2012 The Trust, by Norb Vonnegut, $25.99 ‐ ISBN 978‐1‐250‐00389‐8 It took me a few days to get to the…
Read moreIFC Asia Pacific Review 2012
IFC Asia Pacific Review 2012 Due Diligence Credentials - due-diligence-scan-2-1 With the International Association of Due Diligence Professionals IFC Review…
Read moreEDGE MAGAZINE - CITITRUST - 3RD QTR 2012
EDGE MAGAZINE - CITITRUST - 3RD QTR 2012 Edge-34-2012 Disintermediation, how market forces in International Finance are eliminating the middlemen, by L.…
Read moreOffshore Alert Blog
Offshore Alert Blog OPSEC for Offshore Link to Article
Read moreOffshore Alert Blog
Offshore Alert Blog Corruption - No Saints Desired Just Solutions. Link to Article
Read moreEdge Magazine - CitiTrust - 2nd qtr 2012
Edge Magazine - CitiTrust - 2nd qtr 2012 Edge-24-2012 OFAC - Office Of Foreign Asset Control. When OFAC come calling the response is Oh! FAC. How to avoid…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Can Fraud and Corruption be
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 Stopped? We must now consider if fraud can ever be eliminated: and under this head there are three…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 Overcome The “Not Invented Here” Syndrome By Gail Kasper, Author and Mentor of the Top 1% Club…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Hostile Environments, how dangerous can
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 they be? In corners of the world, society unravels at unpredictable times in some predictable ways.…
Read moreTechnical Issues - The Perceived Value of a Franchise
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 by Jack Eberenz Operating in the world of franchised business as I do you learn that many…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Technology v Thinking, aka Photo
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 Radar v. Savvy driver. Technology seems very important to both organizations and their leaders.…
Read moreAML, BSA& OFAC, – Sanctions and Compliance, A Cautionary Tale…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 On February 24, 2012, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced the…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - FATF 2012 AML Recommendations
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 3, March 2012 On 16 February 2012, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setting body for…
Read moreTop 1 Percent Club
I have recently partnered with the Top 1 Percent Club where I am featured as an expert. Not only will you be able to view additional articles from me, but…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Mining The Meaning From
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 Data Our modern corporations are huge consumers and warehouses of data, actually so are our…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence - Mind
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 The Snail Mail We seem to be very conscious of e‐mail security, but are often oblivious to the…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Very Private Meeting.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 One of our charges has come up with a very unique way of conducting private meetings. It is not…
Read moreTechnical Issues - iPhone, Blackberry, Android - Security
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 I asked a few different experts in electronic surveillance and cell phone security which of the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - The Office Move
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 The time has come to pass and we are leaving our current office for an owned location. As you…
Read moreBSA, AML, & OFAC - How to Write a Policy Manual
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 In the last several seminars we have conducted, as well as clients we have visited, a consistent…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - Help Your Employees Get Through
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 15 Number 2, February 2012 Failure By Gail Kasper, Author and Mentor of the Top 1% Club http://www.gailkasper.com I am sure…
Read moreOffshore Alert - A Burning Hole in AML
Offshore Alert - A Burning Hole in AML Offshore Alert - A Burning Hole in AML A Burning Hole in AML is a discuss about PEP and what makes a PEP and what can…
Read moreOffshore Alert - Meat In The Room Or A Board of Directors
Offshore Alert - Meat In The Room Or A Board of Directors Offshore Alert - Meat In The Room Or A Board of Directors Read Blog Post While we are familiar…
Read moreBDWeek - August 2011
BDWeek - August 2011 BDWeek-August-2011 Enforcement Alert, BDWeek - August 2011 Settlement shows need to focus on anti-money laundering basics. L. Burke…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - How To Make Fake Gold
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 7, July 2011 Cheap money drives out dear, if they exchange for the same price. – Gresham's Law The problem with…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 7, July 2011 Bogus Venezuelan Bonds This is an excerpt of a report on some very bogus Venezuelan Bonds…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 7, July 2011 On a recent trip to France, Spain and Portugal we did a little "recon" work that produced some…
Read moreTechnical Issues - Still More on TSA and Body Scanning
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 7, July 2011 June 27, 2011 ‐ TSA scanner Newly released internal government documents, obtained via the Freedom…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Alang, India, Every City has a
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 7, July 2011 Reputation Many cities develop a reputation that, right or wrong, defines them. Indianapolis has a…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews – Three Recent Cases against banks
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 7, July 2011 and the liability for losses suffered by their client from hacking and phishing. Economics uses the…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Due Diligence is now a
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 4, April 2011 Credentialed Profession The Association of Due Diligence Professionals (ADDP) was founded to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 4, April 2011 VPN’s, use them or expose your IPCI. Back in 1993, a cartoon in the New Yorker Magazine expressed a…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Multiple Citizenships
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 4, April 2011 In the environments of the global executive, secondary citizenship has is value, not just in…
Read moreTechnical Issues - TSA and Backscatter radiation, follow up.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 4, April 2011 In the November 2010 edition of the Aegis Journal we discussed the issue of radiation emissions…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - What We Do Matters
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 4, April 2011 I was supposed to be in Abu Dhabi teaching a class, but I am back in my office the trip to Abu…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 4, April 2011 Febreze. An odd review - agreed.... One weekend we went camping and all of the food waste was…
Read moreBDWeek - March 2011
BDWeek - March 2011 BDWeek-March-2011 Enforcement Alert, BDWeek - March 2011, anti money laundering aml compliance, securities broker dealers Clearing firm…
Read moreAllan Stanford Stabroek News Guyana March 01, 2011
Allan Stanford Stabroek News Guyana March 01, 2011 USStanford L. Burke Files quoted on Sir Allan Stanford Fraud
Read moreLIMRA Regulatory Review, February 2011
LIMRA Regulatory Review, February 2011 LRR_2011-1 Article by Shaun Hassett LIMRA Regulatory Review Everything Old Is New Again, Page 3 On OFAC Sanctions
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - Words vs. Deeds
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011 “Words have no relation to action - otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing:…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011 China turns it spies on Business. If you have been reading the FT, WSJ, New Straits Times or The…
Read moreExecutive Protection - Egypt and the January ÆGIS Journal Issue.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011 We warned you to be prepared last month, and now we have an example. Government regulation and…
Read moreTechnical Issues - Telecoms to Come Under AML Laws
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011 The World Bank has called for Central Bank regulation of telecommunication companies that offer…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Fun with Security Codes and Cards
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011 One of the investigators with our group likes to eat, but he doesn't like to cook. He's a…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - February Snow Brings April
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011 Insurance Claims There are several forecasts predicting severe flooding for the central Midwest…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence - The Cold Case
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 13 Number 6, November 2010 The fraud was many years ago. Fraudsters, victims and witnesses have moved on and have become…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 13 Number 6, November 2010 out of Jail Free. (Thank You Howard Fisher) One of your editors was speaking at the Offshore…
Read moreExecutive Protection - TSA Body Scanner
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 13 Number 6, November 2010 “TSA Naked Body Scanner Images found on the internet”; “Backscatter radiation is harmful…
Read moreTechnical Issues - The Edges of Technology
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 13 Number 6, November 2010 A few stories from the headlines have attracted my attention these last few weeks. “New Trojan…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field - Jury Instructions / The Digital Age
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 13 Number 6, November 2010 Judges routinely admonish jurors only to consider the evidence presented to them at trial, and…
Read moreBook and Product Reviews - Secretariat
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 13 Number 6, November 2010 The movie Secretariat chronicles the successes and failures of owner Penny Tweedy and "Big Red"…
Read moreIgnites a Financial Times service
Ignites a Financial Times service CompliancePros AML Compliance Pros Hit With More Work, Fewer Resources Shaun Hassett quoted on page 3
Read moreIFC Review September 2010
IFC Review September 2010 IFC-Review The Future of Offshore Financial Centers an article by L. Burke Files
Read moreThe Bermuda Royal Gazette - May 13, 2010
The Bermuda Royal Gazette - May 13, 2010 The-Royal-Gazette L. Burke Files, Referenced in an Article of Offshore Financial Centers
Read moreACAMS Today Asset Recovery
ACAMS Today Asset Recovery L. Burke Files and Shaun Hassett discuss how traditional asset recovery is dead, and share a new very effective approach.…
Read moreNoticias Centro - December 02, 2009
Noticias Centro - December 02, 2009 StanfordBank Stanford Bank bajo la lupa por los certificados ¿tóxicos?, Investigador Privado Sr. L. Burke Files quoted…
Read moreWired UK September 2009
Wired UK September 2009 Wired-UK-09.09 L. Burke Files referenced as an International Private Investigator
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Organized crime
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 6, June 2009 Recently, there was a particularly interesting article in the Taipan Daily…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 6, June 2009 Landing the Boeing 747… We pilots live by checklists. Sometimes the checklists are lengthy, and…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Security guards arming themselves
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 6, June 2009 Recently we were strolling through the streets of Gotham and noticed a security guard carrying an…
Read moreTechnical Issues — H1N1
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 6, June 2009 Every year in the U.S. some 65,000 people die from what is lumped together as flu and pneumonia.…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Pass the salt…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 6, June 2009 Some time ago one of our clients bought investment property in the southwest United States, on which…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 6, June 2009 The Looting of America Les Leopold Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN: 9781603582056 224 pages $14.95…
Read moreTreasury’s role as the custodian of value for intellectual property and critical information: The impact of operational security on valuation
Treasury’s role as the custodian of value for intellectual property and critical information: The impact of operational security on valuation…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Checks
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2009 Processing and reconciliation is not keeping up with policies, technology, or fraudsters. We are…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2009 RAF blackmail? Maybe… According to an article in the Guardian,…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Be responsible
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2009 One of our favorite television shows is Clifford the Big Red Dog. In one episode (THE KIBBLE CROOK,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Spyware for smartphones
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2009 This morning a call came in from an associate. The voice quality was bad, so we said “You got a new…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — An interesting check fraud
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2009 A woman had her purse stolen, and notified all the appropriate people. Sometime thereafter another…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 5, May 2009 iYogi $139.99/year http://www.iyogi.net/ 1-800-237-3901 The difference between the computer amateur…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Financial Plus
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 4, April 2009 While the recent Financial Plus Ponzi scheme in Los Angeles has all the elements typical of most…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 4, April 2009 Cyber-security or general protection of IPCI Some time ago a friend in the U.K. sent us a paper on…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Tritium and laser sights
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 4, April 2009 Based on the feedback from non-professional readers of our review of the XS Sight Systems Big Dot…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Over-regulation of American companies
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 4, April 2009 We vaguely recall having read an article that said the Hudson River was so clean that one could now…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Policy based on bad statistics
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 4, April 2009 We are always fascinated when we see policy being made based on bad statistics, particularly when…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 4, April 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Lab $59.00 http://www.kaspersky.com/ 1-800-406-4966 As…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — AML outside examinations
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, March 2009 As longtime readers know, we have a long history of locating concealed assets in fraud (which…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Ghostnet
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, March 2009 If you haven’t just fallen off the turnip truck, you know that cybercrime is a serious and…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Gun safeties
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, March 2009 A friend recently saw a security video on television in Hawaii in which a jewelry store was being…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Certifications in the Security Profession
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, March 2009 Contributed by Jerry J. Brennan, Managing Director & Founder of Security Management Resources…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The two-second rule
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, March 2009 Recently a gun nut enthusiast of our acquaintance called, and read an excerpt from a book which…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, March 2009 A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command…
Read moreUSA Today Stanford - February 27, 2009
USA Today Stanford - February 27, 2009 USA-Today-Stanford Industry, athletes feel pain of Stanford case L. Burke Files quoted in article
Read moreUK Telegraph Stanford - February 23, 2009
UK Telegraph Stanford - February 23, 2009 Telegraph-Stanford How Houston realized Sir Allen Stanford had a problem L. Burke Files quoted in article
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Seek and ye shall find
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2009 Recently a journalist friend was asked by a company to look into whether the company had been…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2009 PURPLE DRAGON The NSA has de-classified a historical document, PURPLE DRAGON: The Origin and…
Read moreExecutive Protection — The .22 caliber revolver for home defense
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2009 Recently someone asked us to recommend a gun for home defense. We felt that this person faced…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Air pistols as a training tool
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2009 Recently a radiologist friend took a tactical medical course. He had a lot of fun throwing…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Bad hospital security
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2009 Some time ago we had to take someone to the emergency room of a large and well-respected…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 2, February 2009 Exercises in Report Writing William Joseph “Doc” McCarthy Communicorp Inc DVD, plus work…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Avoiding the Bernard L.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 1, January 2009 Madoff Investment Securities LLC debacle As anyone not locked in a closet is aware, Bernard…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 1, January 2009 The new era of IPCI theft We were recently on a farm. One of the concerns we heard expressed was…
Read moreExecutive Protection — The Unbreakable Umbrella
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 1, January 2009 We have written in the past (see the November and December 2006 issues of ÆGIS) of the virtues of…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Giving money to children
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 1, January 2009 We recently saw an episode of Two and a Half Men in which Jake acquired some money which he…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Perseverance pays
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 1, January 2009 Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “Democracy is messy.” That observation…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 12 Number 1, January 2009 406 MHz MicroPLB™ Type GXL Personal Locator Beacon Microwave Monolithics Incorporated $698…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — AML implementation issues
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 8, August 2008 Someone we know pointed out that we had been saddled with the rather onerous Sarbanes Oxley not…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 8, August 2008 Sharing the news in China As part of the Olympics, hotels providing Internet access are being…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Sights for concealed-carry guns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 8, August 2008 As readers know, we do not own, keep, or carry guns for personal protection. On the other hand, we…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Illness and guns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 8, August 2008 Recently this editor became (and still is) seriously ill. The good news was that any illness whose…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Presidential politics: More lies on all sides
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 8, August 2008 As the political fight for the Presidency of the United States heats up, the lies have continued…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 8, August 2008 Vopt 9 Golden Bow $40.00 http://www.goldenbow.com/ 1-619-298-9349 There are two easy ways to…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Who’s lying? Follow the money!
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 7, July 2008 We recently were looking at a public policy debate, whose adherents on both sides kept sending us…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 7, July 2008 Remembering the Trojan horse As readers of this journal know, the United States is under increasing…
Read moreExecutive Protection — District of Columbia v Heller
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 7, July 2008 The Supreme Court’s decision in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HELLER…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The Lamperd EMD Safety Bracelet
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 7, July 2008 As everyone in the world is aware, on 11 September 2001 several sets of essentially-unarmed men –…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Finders keepers…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 7, July 2008 Twice recently one of our editors lost something of value. The first time it was his cell phone – a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 7, July 2008 Who Speaks for Islam? John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed Gallup Press ISBN: 978-1-59562-017-0 222…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Virtue is its own reward…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2008 The other day we went to see some screenings of student films at the New York Film Academy in New…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2008 Smartphone hacking We recently got an e-mail from Mayer Nudel, publisher of the monthly Traveler’s…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Flying and strokes
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2008 Last week a friend of ours went to Europe for a meeting, which meant he flew out Monday night, had a…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The Explanator™
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2008 Some time ago we had dinner with a chief of police and a journalist. In discussions of events and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Cigar Story
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2008 While hunting down a fraudster in the Dominican Republic, the editors had a chance to visit a cigar…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2008 Acronis True Image 11 Home Acronis $49.99 http://www.acronis.com/ We had a problem shared by many.…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — What’s the rush, pal?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 5, May 2008 While we generally think of exercise of due diligence in financial terms, it is really more of an…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 5, May 2008 Disinformation When this editor was in graduate school, a friend left a deck of computer punch cards…
Read moreExecutive Protection — On shootings
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 5, May 2008 Shootings are traumatic for all involved, and it is important that they be analyzed after the fact.…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Security and the traffic light. And the smart bomb.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 5, May 2008 We frequently mention the five questions that should be asked of any policy of measure: 1. What…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Outside the box
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 5, May 2008 Recently, Financial Examinations and Evaluations (FE&E), which does a lot of collections work, got a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 5, May 2008 Free Lunch David Cay Johnston Portfolio ISBN: 1-978-1-59184-191-3 352 pages $24.95…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Interpreting resumes
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 4, April 2008 The presidential campaign has brought to mind the importance of interpreting resumes. Resumes…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 4, April 2008 OPSEC and the downfall of New York’s governor We recently got back from Argentina. One of the…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Where there’s a will…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 4, April 2008 Recently someone we knew died, leaving a friend as executor of his estate, or so it seemed.…
Read moreTechnical Issues — TSA and the implant
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 4, April 2008 As has been widely noted, airport security theater has caused an upsweep in theft. While largely…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Charmin Ultra Soft Mega
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 4, April 2008 We travel abroad a lot, often to places quite different from home. We tend to take a lot of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 4, April 2008 MicroPLB™, Type GX Microwave Monolithics $898 http://www.micro-mono.com/ After a long wait,…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — More unintended consequences
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 3, March 2008 In the January issue article Guns or butter Gasoline or eggs we discussed the fact that the current…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 3, March 2008 Demystifying OPSEC assessments: A “how to” primer. While we, in this journal, deal with OPSEC in…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Concealed carry
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 3, March 2008 We are not folks who habitually carry guns either personally or professionally. On the other hand,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Decryption through memory theft
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 3, March 2008 Of late we have seen a number of articles on a new way to get decryption keys, in this case, by…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Interpreting the news
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 3, March 2008 Recently we had to go to Nevis, and discovered that American Airlines had cancelled the flight…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 3, March 2008 How Doctors Think Jerome Groopman, MD Publisher ISBN-13: 9780618610037 336 pages $15.95…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Credit rating agencies
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2008 We have never been fans of credit rating agencies. They have been a poor substitute for due…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — VC
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2008 While loss of intellectual property and critical information (IPCI) is costly to the country as…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Travel nutrition
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2008 Because we travel so much, health is a constant preoccupation of ours. Some parts of this…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Who should guard the henhouse?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2008 While we don’t deal professionally with the world of security, it is certainly an area of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Losing data safely
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2008 In October 2007 Iron Mountain told GE Money that a backup tape was missing. GE shared the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 2, February 2008 Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World's Greatest Wealth Machine --…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — October 2002 – 30 September 2004
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 1, January 2008 It is not our wont to discuss politics in these pages, firstly because this is an inappropriate…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 1, January 2008 How does loss of IPCI manifest itself? If someone hijacks a truckload of a product you made, the…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Dancing down the road to Hell
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 1, January 2008 We generally think of due diligence as something to be exercised in financial dealings. But it…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Guns or butter Gasoline or eggs
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 1, January 2008 The other morning we went to the store to buy eggs, and discovered that the cost of eggs had more…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Funny thefts
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 1, January 2008 Most thefts are not fun, but occasionally we come across some that are. We have two favorites.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 11 Number 1, January 2008 iPhone Apple / AT&T Wireless $399.00…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Check Fraud:
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 12, December 2007 When Are You Responsible? Reprinted from the Leahy Newsletter with permission from Bob Leahy…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 12, December 2007 2007 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission We have been…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Globalstar Spot Messenger
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 12, December 2007 Spot Messenger Spot Inc $149.94, Service $99/year http://www.findmespot.com/ 1-408-933-4518 As…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Interviewing, interrogation, and torture
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 12, December 2007 Earlier this year someone we knew was concerned when they found out we were going to a place…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 12, December 2007 We are particularly good at finding concealed assets: In an average year we are usually looking…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 12, December 2007 Dyalog APL, Version 11 Dylog Limited http://www.dyalog.com/ +44(0)1256 338461 In his wayward…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 11, November 2007 Missing the train Transportation is big business, and the manufacture of trains, planes, and…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Sensitive information for protective details
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 11, November 2007 In the performance of protective services, information is as valuable as gold. Indeed,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Rediscover Your Native Fitness (PACE), by Al
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 11, November 2007 Sears, M.D. ÆGIS is a strong proponent of being as healthy as possible. This includes doing…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 11, November 2007 TreeAge Pro TreeAge Software, Inc. $100 - $500, depending on version http://www.treeage.com/…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — ACH phone-in fraud
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 11, November 2007 As readers know, ACH (Automated Clearing House) is a goldmine for those who deal with fraud. We…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The End of America, by Naomi Wolf
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 11, November 2007 In The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green Publishing, ISBN:…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Watching TJX
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 10, October 2007 The interesting thing about the TJX caper is not that TJX lost the credit card data of 96…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 10, October 2007 The economic impact of implementing an OPSEC program It is a mistake to look at OPSEC as…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Jack of all trades?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 10, October 2007 In the world of protective services there are a wide variety of skill sets available. Some…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Global warming and the little ice age
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 10, October 2007 By any standard global warming is a serious issue, particularly if you are a polar bear – the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Move it and lose it
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 10, October 2007 We have seen two cases of late where people were acting stupid in the smart zone while moving…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 10, October 2007 SpamArrest Spam Arrest LLC $5.95/month or $24.95/6 months or 44.95/12 months or 74.95/24 months…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Backing up data
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2007 Recently a friend who has a one-man business realized that his computer’s hard drive was full.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2007 Which weighs more: A pound of feathers or a pound of gold? This trick question, much beloved by…
Read moreExecutive Protection — When the melting pot stops boiling
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2007 When everything works right, a startling transformation takes place between first generation…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Laptop protection
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2007 We have seen a recent rash of reports of problems caused by stolen computers. In some cases the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Spies for sport
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2007 NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 9, September 2007 Filecrypt Desktop 2.0 Veridis $49.00 http://www.veridis.com/pgp/products/filecrypt-desktop.html…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Information examination
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 8, August 2007 Financial shenanigans are, well, financial in nature, and can be fairly subtle. Think back to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 8, August 2007 What bankers can learn from public health When we speak at conferences about protecting…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Travel alternatives
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 8, August 2007 Recently a friend had to take a business trip to Minneapolis, but couldn’t get there because the…
Read moreTechnical Issues — On-shoring
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 8, August 2007 It has been our experience that a wage difference of 50% or greater is a benchmark for moving jobs…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Bribery
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 8, August 2007 The 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) bans any company, domestic or foreign, that does…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 8, August 2007 In a rare move, we are today discussing two books, Better and Reinventing the CFO, each of which…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Electronic voting machines redeux
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 7, July 2007 It is important to make every effort to assure that the electoral process is above suspicion, and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 7, July 2007 Where are the lawsuits? The other day someone asked us where the lawsuits were over loss of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 7, July 2007 When looking at ballistic vests, there are more possibilities than may seem immediately obvious to…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Satcom on the train
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 7, July 2007 For us, communications is a constant preoccupation. When we travel we tend to have local-country and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Preventing theft from checked baggage
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 7, July 2007 It is widely rumored that theft in checked baggage has skyrocketed now that air travelers can no…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 7, July 2007 As mentioned in the previous article, we had two knives stolen from our luggage on a recent trip. We…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Fostering corruption. Or not.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 6, June 2007 People tend to make use of opportunities presented to them, often with little regard for ethics. In…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 6, June 2007 We were trying to explain the concept of OPSEC to someone foreign to most of the professional worlds…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 6, June 2007 Recently, one of our clients asked us to translate a legal document from Spanish to English. The…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 6, June 2007 Surefire U2 Ultra Surefire $279.00…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Putting yourself in God’s hands
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 6, June 2007 During hurricane Katrina, a police car was dispatched in New Orleans to pick up a minister and take…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — A new ACH scheme
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 6, June 2007 We have frequently used a variety of languages (ancient Hebrew, Arabic, German, French, Latin,…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Death by ant
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 5, May 2007 In an interesting case in China, a man was sentenced to death for a scam involving ant farms. Ants…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 5, May 2007 The two sides of IPCI loss In preparing for our October Intellectual Property and Critical…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 5, May 2007 An issue that has become an increasing concern is the loss of data when laptops or hard drives are…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 5, May 2007 On Tuesday, 17 April 2007, we were attending the SureFire anti-terrorism symposium in New York City.…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The romance of travel….
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 5, May 2007 Last month we were standing in the Airport Security Theater line for a purposeless inspection, and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 5, May 2007 First Choice Millennium Flex MF 8 Body Armor (We paid a show price of $656.25 at TREXPO, but cannot…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Whom do you trust?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2007 Two of the editors of this journal recently spoke to a group of bankers and journalists in Tashkent…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2007 We see more financial fraud every week than most companies see in a year. We deal with more…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2007 When someone does something wrong, they often don’t want to admit it. This is not unnatural, as few…
Read moreTechnical Issues —Who should investigate your fraud?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2007 The background of a fraud investigator makes a significant difference in the investigation of a…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — How dead is dead?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2007 A recent case that went to court ended unsatisfactorily when the defendant died while abroad. The…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 4, April 2007 Awakening Prologue Centerpointe Research Institute 3 CDs $159…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — How can I help you?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2007 When this editor’s father was doing consulting it was his habit to ask employees what, from their…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2007 to know in globalized product development A serious threat to intellectual property in a global…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Re-training in security driving
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2007 Professional drivers undergo regular driving training. We have spoken to some senior managers who…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Targeted viruses
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2007 In the good old days, people wrote viruses largely because they could. While some attempted to…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Rendezvous Bay Hotel and Villas, Anguilla
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2007 “That’s Anguilla not Antigua,” is the stock response when we tell people about Rendezvous Bay in…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2007 Symbiotics Colostrum Plus (http://www.symbiotics.com/) and EpiCor…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Records retention policy
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 2, February 2007 The issue of records retention is one that has concerned us for quite some time. We would…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 2, February 2007 IP/CI Conference CALL for PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS Conference Mission: The mission of this…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Straight from the cat’s mouth
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 2, February 2007 In our line of work we occasionally get to spend time at seminars with some very accomplished…
Read moreTechnical Issues — EFT reversals and ACH fraud
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 2, February 2007 Many Thanks to Bob Leahy at [email protected] for allowing us to pirate and paraphrase his…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 2, February 2007 ChoiceMail DigiPortal $39.95 http://www.digiportal.com/ The other day we realized we were…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — BOP FOLP
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 2, February 2007 The scam is a straightforward pitch to help people get out of debt and put money in their…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Choosing electronic voting machines
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2007 In evaluating electronic voting machines we must look at two types of error. The first is system…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2007 Do intangibles matter? One of the things that always astonishes us when discussing intellectual…
Read moreExecutive Protection —Protecting inaccessible places
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2007 Recently we were browsing at the Strand bookstore in Manhattan at the same time a co-editor was…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Heart attack performance review
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2007 One evening last month our home phone rang at 2:25 am. It was a neighbor who said he didn’t feel…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — I once was lost, but now am found….
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2007 There has been a rash of recent stories in the press of people lost in the wilderness and dying.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 10 Number 1, January 2007 Motorola V195 http://www.motorola.com/consumer/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0fe32c1cef62d01…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — We own what?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 12, December 2006 Some time ago a friend of ours was at a flea market with a friend of his. Our friend’s friend…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 12, December 2006 Russian economic espionage As regular readers know, we are generally much more concerned with…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Implications of Islamic reformation
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 12, December 2006 Throughout history it has generally been believed that religious uniformity was essential for…
Read moreTechnical Issues —Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 12, December 2006 Most people who use computers know that one of the factors that can slow down the speed of the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The RAD Index and counterterrorism
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 12, December 2006 As we have often mentioned, five questions must be asked in evaluating every policy or measure.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 12, December 2006 The Cane: Street Techniques (DVD) Cane Masters 32 minutes $39.95 http://www.canemasters.com/…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Other ways of getting information
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 11, November 2006 In the exercise of due diligence the most obvious route is not always the most possible route.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 11, November 2006 Competitors and adversaries One of the things that distinguish OPSEC from other forms of risk…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Walking sticks in lieu of impact weapons?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 11, November 2006 In the last issue we discussed collapsible impact weapons. One might wonder if walking sticks…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Self-defense issues
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 11, November 2006 We recently were set up to go to a meeting, with people flying in for this event. Unfortunately,…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Houston Networking Group
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 11, November 2006 When dealing with adversaries, it can be greatly beneficial if those with a common interest band…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 11, November 2006 The Bat! Private Disk RITLabs, $29, or $19.43 if you use The Bat! E-mail client…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Cops moonlighting as investigators
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 10, October 2006 One of our competitors was hired by an attorney who had a client that had suffered the theft from…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — What
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 10, October 2006 is critical information? When we talk about preventing information loss, we usually talk about…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Options in collapsible impact weapons
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 10, October 2006 In the field of executive protection we occasionally have to use weapons. In most high-threat…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Déjà vu all over again: T-Mobile’s Sharp Sidekick 3
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 10, October 2006 As the mobile phone market has become saturated, with voice calls becoming a commodity item,…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — How United Airlines Flight 93 changed
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 10, October 2006 aircraft security When United Airlines flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania as passengers fought the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 10, October 2006 Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood Jim Harper Cato Institute ISBN:…
Read moreSpecial Report: Debt Collection from Small and Medium Judgments and International Asset Location and Recovery
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 9, September 2006 1. American businesses lose $300 billion annually to competitive intelligence, economic…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Breaking trust, breaking trusts
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 8, August 2006 We all too frequently get calls from people who have lost money. They frequently know where the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 8, August 2006 We are not alone… We hear lots of silly questions, like how come the Japanese smoke so much but…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Tac-Pack
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 8, August 2006 As readers know, we are very concerned with medical issues. One of the things we carry with us is…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Alternatives to liquids on commercial aircraft
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 8, August 2006 Several years ago, a man brought several bottles of water on board an aircraft in China. As it…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Porting mobile phone numbers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 8, August 2006 When AT&T Wireless was going GSM, they offered an unlimited talk-time plan for $99 as an inducement…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 8, August 2006 IBackup http://www.ibackup.com/ The other day we got a call from a colleague whose hard drive had…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Financing asset location
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 7, July 2006 Finding concealed assets is an expensive business, and one which is about to become unaffordable for…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Arson
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 7, July 2006 We recently spoke at a conference in London in which three of us spoke on topic relating to…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Mission Knives
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 7, July 2006 In the protective services business we often find ourselves laden down with knives. Assuming we are…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Where my house?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 7, July 2006 Our stock in trade as investigators are the bizarre and unusual. Thus, when a friend or family member…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 7, July 2006 The Race Trap Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Steven Simring (with Gene Busnar) Harper Business ISBN:…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The Bat! Voyager
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 7, July 2006 We use an e-mail program called The Bat! (see the January 2005 issue of ÆGIS), put out by RIT Labs…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Change through participation
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 6, June 2006 While we are all familiar with takeovers of public companies, hostile and friendly, we are less…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — When
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 6, June 2006 should you call the FBI? Companies that choose not to implement an OPSEC program face a substantial…
Read moreExecutive Protection — International Stalking countermeasures
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 6, June 2006 Contributed by Henrik Bramsborg, Bramsborg Security & Safety ([email protected]). He is the…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Pen registers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 6, June 2006 הפעם-נא יחר לאדני ואדברה אך- ויאמר אל אולי ימצאון שם עשרה ויאמר לא אשחית בעבור העשרה: Genesis 18:32…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — 5.11 Tactical Gear
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 6, June 2006 It is always a pleasure to see products that are well thought out and well executed – particularly…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 6, June 2006 Zero Halliburton luggage Zero Manufacturing, Inc. http://www.zerohalliburton.com/ 1- 801-298-5900 We…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2006 customer complaints A company that specialized in motivation and life skill training had had over…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2006 How Usama bin Laden made the world safe for spies For a brief period of time after the Cold War ended…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Decapitation à la America: How China
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2006 might invade Taiwan Max Hirsch ([email protected]) is a former translator in the Ministry of…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Nokia 6270
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2006 On 31 July 2001 the first GSM 850 call was made, and soon a number of countries in the Western…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field —Who might live in a pandemic
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2006 A lot of odd things happen within humanity. For example, if you have direct forebears who had the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 5, May 2006 The Law and Economics of Cybersecurity Edited by Mark F. Grady and Francesco Parisi Cambridge…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Polygraphy
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2006 There is some question about the validity of polygraph testing. In one case with which we are…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Is he
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2006 Cheating on you? 829 Telltale Signs An important part of competitive intelligence and economic…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2006 This editor has begun research on a book, working title Good Court, Bad Court, dealing with Dred…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Déjà vu all over again….
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2006 One of the odd things about the wireless telecommunications business is that the industry is…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Moving data
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2006 In the dim past, before networks, we recommended to a company that it fire anyone discovered to have…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 4, April 2006 KEYController KeySure PO Box 362 Hudson NY 12534-0362 http://www.keysure.net/ 1-518-828-5337 In the…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — ACH Debits
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 3, March 2006 You get them. You know, those pesky little checks for $12.00. “That must be the rebate check I was…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — From Europe
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 3, March 2006 Competitive Intelligence An interesting story by Alf Young in Glasgow’s Sunday Herald…
Read moreExecutive Protection — China Syndrome: Staving off social
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 3, March 2006 meltdown in rural China Contributed by Max Hirsch ([email protected]). Max Hirsch is a…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Specialized spyware developers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 3, March 2006 There is still a perception that spyware and viruses are done by kids for misguided fun. While this…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Pay Stub Extreme Income Makeover
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 3, March 2006 Better than an AmEx Platinum Card stapled to your forehead Several Internet companies are offering…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 3, March 2006 Corporate Crime Marshall Clinard and Peter Yeager Transaction Publishers ISBN: 1-4128-0493-0 435…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Cashing in on the glass ceiling
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, February 2006 One of the nice things about holiday parties and bars is that in both one has the opportunity to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, February 2006 Internet losses A report released by the National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC) indicates…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Carrying costs
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, February 2006 While we ourselves do not carry guns, the nature of that portion of our business that deals with…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Toner expiration games
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, February 2006 We recently got a call from an irate friend who had bought a case of toner cartridges for the HP…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The case of the missing sniffles
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, February 2006 One of our editors tends to get sick in the winter, and yet, this winter, he has not had so much…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 2, February 2006 Spyware Doctor 3.5 PC Tools Software $29.95 http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ 1-800-406-4966…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2006 Camera phones at the movies, and their recommended use on TV We recently went to see a movie (The…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Nutritional supplements while traveling
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2006 Traveling can be stressful under the best of circumstances. It can disrupt sleep patterns, move…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Maritime Shipping in the 21st Century:
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2006 The Next Generation Contributed by Professor Arthur Cohen B.A., M.A., CEO, Target Consultants…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Santa Claus
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2006 Those of you who watch the Simpsons might recall the episode in which Homer dies, but can’t get…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2006 AquaStar™ Plus water purifier Meridion Design, Inc. $95 http://www.uvaquastar.com/ In last month’s…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Customer satisfaction
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2006 Customer satisfaction is a reflection of management policy, and is an important issue: happy…
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Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Who are these people, and why
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 12, December 2005 are we giving them our money? Most of us prefer to deal with people whom we like. Often these…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Buggy whips
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 12, December 2005 One of the things that can be hard to learn is when you need to change the direction of your…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Personal preparation for crisis
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 12, December 2005 In the September issue of ÆGIS we wrote about hurricane activity, which we hope was of some…
Read moreTechnical Issues — VoIP security issues
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 12, December 2005 There has, of late, been a rash of (justified) concern about the security of VOIP…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — What we worry about at night
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 12, December 2005 A lot of people worry about terrorism. And, based on the level of tax dollars being spent to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 12, December 2005 Bowflex i-Trainer Bowflex Windows-only software $59.99…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — The new bankruptcy laws
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005 In October the significant change to the bankruptcy laws of the United States that was…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005 Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead! Monty Python fans will recall the scene in Monty…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Inoculations for domestic use
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005 Speaking of the plague, those of us who travel a lot – and are prudent – tend to keep our…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Dumping, theft, and currency manipulation
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005 Dumping is an old tradition, and a profitable one. Imagine that you make high-end widgets, and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — How China might get Taiwan
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005 We recently had a conversation with someone who had an interesting spin on China as relates to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005 Upcoming Events Reminder Service Specialized Consulting Services…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Be Prepared
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2005 We have often said in these pages that if you are prepared for natural disaster you will be…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2005 Coming soon to your company: A class action lawsuit We have recently had conversations with…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Do you know your roads?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2005 Contributed by Basilio ‘Bob’ Reyes Jr., Executive Protection Officer, ConocoPhillips, Inc.…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Pretty Good Privacy
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2005 As our readers know, we at LUBRINCO are big believers in encryption. We encrypt our telephone…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Unintended consequences: How Sony
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2005 and Universal will force you to make bootleg DVD movies Like most of you, we have a lot of CDs,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2005 SpyFinder® - Personal Hidden Camera Locator Apogen Technologies, Inc. $114.99…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — You don’t say…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 9, September 2005 “You have the right to remain silent.” That phrase is familiar to almost everyone – particularly…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 9, September 2005 And the Chinese have arrived! We have, in past issues, noted that the foreign press has devoted…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 9, September 2005 One of the discouraging things in life is the realization that not everyone is honest. Some…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Hurricane activity for the next decade
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 9, September 2005 If you know anybody who lives in hurricane areas, you know that they have been fleeing…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — ICE: In Case of Emergency
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 9, September 2005 Some time ago we got a call from a friend who does training in hospitals. He told me that a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 9, September 2005 With Winning in Mind Lanny Bassham Mental Management ISBN: 1-885221-47-9 166 pages $12.95…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Keeping the small investor off the net
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 8, August 2005 From time to time we get inquiries from people about how to hide their money so it is not visible…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 8, August 2005 OPSEC and the surprise birthday party If you want to see OPSEC in action – and a well-executed…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Secure communications while traveling
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 8, August 2005 Secure communications while traveling is not markedly more difficult than communications security…
Read moreTechnical Issues — BlackBerry 7100t GSM worldphone
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 8, August 2005 In our constant quest to find adequate GSM handsets for the international business traveler, we…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Helpful hints for the occasional traveler
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 8, August 2005 Some readers are neither very wealthy nor traveling on their company’s generous dime. If this…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 8, August 2005 What Clients Love Harry Beckwith Warner Books ISBN: 0-466-52755-6 304 pages $21.95…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — Yea, fraud!!!
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 7, July 2005 We must admit that fraud been very very good to us. If it were not for fraud we would have no work…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 7, July 2005 We purchased what? It is estimated that 70% of a modern company’s value lies in its intellectual…
Read moreExecutive Protection — We are acquiring who?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 7, July 2005 Acquisitions of companies infer the acquisition and responsibility for all of the company’s…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Click fraud
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 7, July 2005 Advertisers generally hope a banner ad will do one of two things. Ideally, a visitor to a Web site…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 7, July 2005 One of the smartest investment bankers we know That would be Fred Newcomb, Sr. – Jr. is real good,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 7, July 2005 The Criminal Records Manual Derek Hinton Facts on Demand Press ISBN: 1-889150-43-6 448 pages $28.95…
Read moreAsset Location and Due Diligence — “You can’t cheat an honest man…”
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2005 Most of the best frauds involve two willing parties. The first is the fraudster. The second is the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2005 US more spy-free than Europe In an article in http://www.agentura.ru/english/Right?id=20050511152800,…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Keeping fit
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2005 Keeping fit is important for a number of reasons, including the fact that you feel better, you…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Planning for plan failure
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2005 We recently spoke at the CPM 2005 West conference. We arrived at our lecture room a few minutes…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Psychological considerations
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2005 You have prepared for disasters. You are ready for almost everything. You have the data secured,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2005 Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard Matt Curtin Springer-Verlag ISBN: 0-387-20109-2…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Caribbean BSAR
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 5, May 2005 We at FEEINC were recently retained to perform our Business Security Audit and ReviewSM (BSAR) for an…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 5, May 2005 Defensive Use of Firearms Stephen P Wenger Paladin Press ISBN: 978-1-58160-469-6 120 pages $20.00…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 5, May 2005 say and read We have, of late, read several opinion pieces that make use of historical references. As…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 5, May 2005 OPSEC: Don’t be fooled by the name A major marketing problem with OPSEC lies in its full name: OPSEC…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 5, May 2005 Recently a friend of ours, a man of 74 years, came back from a trip to Europe. He lives with his wife…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 5, May 2005 It looks likely that the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement will pass. This will…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2005 Recently the entire board of directors of a professional organization resigned en masse, along with…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2005 OPSEC and embarrassment OPSEC can protect against a wide variety of problems. In general we think of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2005 Tigers can be a real threat. They have killed substantial numbers of people over the years.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2005 Recently a colleague received a message from his Norton Anti-Virus software that he had a specific…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2005 Recently we were asked to get involved in correspondence with a girl on a cyber dating service. The…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2005 We were recently asked to recommend places to buy artwork for an office (we know a lot of artists).…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 3, March 2005 program and the Development Fund for Iraq When the massive amount of fraud and waste associated with…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 3, March 2005 implication of Sarbanes-Oxley on economic espionage prosecutions In the January issue we discussed…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 3, March 2005 One of the staples of the tools that protect our physical property is the magnetic switch. You see…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 3, March 2005 As computers have become faster and faster, a significant constraint on speed of computer operations…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Good ideas, great ideas, bad ideas
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 3, March 2005 There is a tendency to forget that there are a lot of good ideas out there, and a lot of different…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 3, March 2005 The Retail Manager’s Guide to Crime and Loss Prevention Liz Martinez Looseleaf Law Publications…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2005 Intellectual property in China China has intellectual property laws that have, from time to time,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2005 The threat of being kidnapped to any western executive in your charge is very small. The threat…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2005 In order to facilitate international trade, China is overhauling its national technical standards…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2005 The people of China are wonderful and we always enjoy the opportunity to travel to our offices in…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2005 We have often described due diligence as an independent fact finding process to determine who is…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2005 Public Records Online, 5th Edition Sankey and Weber Facts on Demand Press ISBN: 1-889150-42-8 560…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 1, January 2005 Those who have worked in materials management have attended a seminar in which the speaker…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 1, January 2005 Sarbanes-Oxley and shareholder lawsuits The cost to American companies of victimization by…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 1, January 2005 Those of us who either deal in preventing violence, or who are protected by those who deal in…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 1, January 2005 The Bat! One of the major sources of viruses is e-mail. Prudence therefore dictates that one give…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 1, January 2005 As noted in the first article, most of what today passes for terrorism is merely an unfortunate…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 1, January 2005 Motorola V180 GSM worldphone http://www.motorola.com/ With the opening of our resident office in…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 12, December 2004 Sarbanes-Oxley, OPSEC, and valuation of intellectual property An OPSEC program can be a big help…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 12, December 2004 As anyone who was not in a coma was aware, one of the big talking points of the recent American…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 12, December 2004 In this day and age it is important to understand why it is difficult to write a bug-free…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 12, December 2004 In the January 2003 issue of AEGIS, we wrote about sexual harassment policy as a tool in the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 12, December 2004 Second Wave Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Edited by Graeme Shanks, Peter B. Seddon,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 12, December 2004 Most products made do what they say they are going to do, but some have flaws or defects or are…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 11, November 2004 Muslims and Jews? We in the business world can gain a lot from the study of religion. For…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 11, November 2004 Sarbanes-Oxley and corporate OPSEC programs The SEC, in a letter dated 5 August 2004, said “the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 11, November 2004 We spend a lot of time concerned with protecting from events so unlikely that we will read about…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 11, November 2004 We have mentioned on many occasions the necessity of having a firewall, particularly if you have…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 11, November 2004 Recently we were asked if we might consider being an expert witness in a trial involving police…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 11, November 2004 Taking Sex Differences Seriously Steven E. Rhoads Encounter Books ISBN: 1-893554-93-7 240 pages…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 10, October 2004 Prevention Act of 2004 When looking at any policy or measure five questions need to be asked. 1.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 10, October 2004 Sarbanes-Oxley and OPSEC As regular readers of this journal are aware, loss of critical…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 10, October 2004 From time to time we hear of new scams, and like to pass them on. This one came from the FBI.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 10, October 2004 Communications can sometimes be a little iffy, as much in the electronic era as it was in the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 10, October 2004 Bad things happen to the best of us, and often for reasons beyond either control or reason. While…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 10, October 2004 The X-TAG System Worldtrac, LLC http://www.usatrac.com/ 1-888-443-2443 The X-Tag system is…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2004 Learning to take candy from babies Learning how to identify and protect critical information –…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2004 We have a preoccupation – some might call it a mild obsession – with being able to be found when…
Read moreTechnical Issues —GSM bands, and why you care
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2004 For most of the world, GSM is the mobile phone protocol of choice. There are four frequency…
Read moreDue Diligence — Avoiding social unrest in new oil producers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2004 Most Americans are puzzled by the fact that oil-rich countries could be so poor. By all rational…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Is there a doctor in the house?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2004 R.J. told the sheriff that he, R.J., was a union rep, and that the union he represented was…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 9, September 2004 SpinRite 6.0 Steve Gibson Gibson Research Corporation $89.00 http://www.grc.com/ 1-949-348-7100…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 8, August 2004 HR 2971, the Social Security Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2004, just passed the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 8, August 2004 Protecting indicators with offshore companies Most of what is known about offshore financial…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 8, August 2004 A new service, ChildLocate (http://www.childlocate.co.uk/) is available to allow parents in the UK…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Reading competitors’ e-mail. Legally!
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 8, August 2004 The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 8, August 2004 How transferable are skills? Nobody is quite sure, which can make for some interesting problems…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 8, August 2004 Xcaper® Civilian Smoke Mask Xcaper Industries, LLC $44.95…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 7, July 2004 No matter what your political or philosophical or emotional view of the war in Iraq, in the zero-sum…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 7, July 2004 There are a lot of people who have cars pick them up and carry them from place to place. Some of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field —False alarms as a tool of the bad-guy
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 7, July 2004 There are lots of reasons why physical security measures work, and are of great value. And we have…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 7, July 2004 Travel Sentry™ certified locks http://www.travelsentry.org/ One of the annoyances of modern air…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 7, July 2004 Information protection as a tool for social status Although American businesses lose an estimated…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Explosives as a tool of cyber-disruption
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 7, July 2004 There is a lot of concern these days over protection of our cyber- infrastructure. You can’t read…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2004 Offshore outsourcing as an information radiator In the 60s American programmers earned around $40 an…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2004 When you were a kid your mother told you not to get into cars with strangers. This advice is still…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2004 One of the exciting new additions to the world of cellular devices is Bluetooth. Bluetooth-enabled…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2004 KEYController KeySure PO Box 362 Hudson NY 12534-0362 http://www.keysure.net/ 1-518-828-5337 Some…
Read moreDue Diligence — What companies can learn from Abu Ghraib
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2004 Rumors and complaints had been floating around for at least half a year before the pictures from Abu…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Competing with ourselves
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2004 We work largely in areas where we have relatively little competition. If you need financial…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 5, May 2004 National OPSEC Conference and Exhibition The annual national OPSEC security conference and exhibition,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 5, May 2004 It is coming up on vacation time, so let’s talk about the mix of executive protection and sailing. For…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — But the numbers looked good…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 5, May 2004 A financial investor had interests in a number of restaurants that did very well. But obviously they…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 5, May 2004 Every once in a while we like to recommend some good books that may not always be on topic – but heck…
Read moreDue Diligence — New regulations regarding internal controls
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 5, May 2004 The SEC is in the process of adopting further rules on accounting and the role accounting firms will…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Communications in a suspicious society
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 5, May 2004 Security of communications is a concern in protective services, as in many other areas. As your…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2004 Competitive Intelligence for the small business Large companies have deep product lines and a lot of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2004 estate development As property in Manhattan has grown more expensive, development has moved to the…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Children and self-defense
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2004 At the beginning of February 2004, television viewers in the United States were horrified by the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Lost in cyberspace
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2004 Literature is filled with stories of letters that go astray, and the ensuing consequences. And…
Read moreDue Diligence — Faith and fraud
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2004 According to some, in olden times there was more direct contact with the gods, so religion was less…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2004 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children http://www.missingkids.com/ 1-703-274-3900 May…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2004 In many cases involving the recovery of missing assets, whether because of fraud, theft, or divorce,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2004 Camera phones as a tool of information theft Those who read Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2004 What do natural disasters, anarchists and terrorists, fraudsters and thieves, and religion have in…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Checking ID
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2004 It is always difficult to convince people that protective measures need to be taken seriously. This…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2004 Phone Manager II (for Nokia handsets) Oxygen Software €39 (1 handset), €59 (3), €89 (5), €1599…
Read moreTechnical Issues — How AT&T Wireless and Cingular
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2004 caught the handset manufacturing world with their pants down For those mobile phone users who have…
Read moreDue Diligence — Small frauds
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 2, February 2004 We recently got an inquiry about someone who had invested $17,000 of her own money, and $23,000…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Stop before you enter
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 2, February 2004 Last year someone behind us practically knocked this writer over when we stopped before entering…
Read moreTechnical Issues — A new credit card scam
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 2, February 2004 The following came to us through InfraGard via the Atlanta chapter of ASIS. Since it is a…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Stupid training tricks: Get out your checkbook
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 2, February 2004 Those of you who read ÆGIS regularly know that we are big believers in training. More than that,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 2, February 2004 Motorola V600 quad-band handset http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/m_v600.html Motorola…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 2, February 2004 Why we manage vulnerability, not risk or threat Someone asked us the other day why we say we…
Read moreDue Diligence — Fraudsters and your ideal best friend
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 1, January 2004 Imagine that you could invent your own best friend. What qualities would you like in them? No…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 1, January 2004 Why fraud feasors do not need to use OPSEC to protect themselves from individual victims Fraud is…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Is your anonymous proxy server
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 1, January 2004 anonymous? We have in the past (ÆGIS November 2002, December 2002, July 2003) discussed use of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 1, January 2004 InfraGard http://www.infragard.net/ Ever wonder how your company can be working closer with the…
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Mergers and Acquisitions - January 2004 Mergers-Acquisitions-January-2004 A Field Day for Spys While A Deal Advances By Richard Isaacs
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 1, January 2004 and why you can’t do them One of the mistakes frequently made in all areas of selection is to be…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Why you soon may be able to get an encrypted
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 1, January 2004 cell phone for under $2,500 Encryption of telephone calls is a funny area, because there is a very…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2003 Negligent action lawsuits As we have often mentioned in these pages, economic espionage is very…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Choosing the appropriate PR firm
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2003 Public relations firms serve a number of purposes, the most obvious of which is getting you…
Read moreDue Diligence — Fleecing the foreigners
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2003 A lot of people think of due diligence as something that must be done in large business deals,…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Alternative travel issues
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2003 There are many people now unwilling to fly on commercial airliners. There are various reasons…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — California forest fires
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2003 This October California suffered two major forest fires. The two fires started quite far from…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 12, December 2003 Business Valuation Blue Book Chad Simmons Facts On Demand ISBN: 1-889150-32-0 280 pages $24.95…
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USA Today - November 7, 2003 USA-Today-7-November-2003 Is wireless world a secure one? Richard Isaacs quoted in article
Read moreDue Diligence — Due diligence for profit in private banks and trusts
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 11, November 2003 Under the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 11, November 2003 Protecting customer lists in private banks and trusts The average cost of a single incident of…
Read moreExecutive Protection — On the invulnerability of traveling bankers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 11, November 2003 A banker friend of ours recently mentioned that he was going to Mexico City. Mexico City is a…
Read moreTechnical Issues — When everything goes wrong, asset recovery
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 11, November 2003 A bank cannot make 100% of its investment decisions correctly, unless it makes no decision at…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Going the extra mile in trust transactions
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 11, November 2003 We were recently involved in a transaction where the government of a large country wanted to buy…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 11, November 2003 Critical Issues in International Financial Reform Albert Berry and Gustavo Indart. Transaction…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 10, October 2003 which is enough to make a very good living… In order for fraud to be successful, you need two…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 10, October 2003 Active versus passive adversaries While active adversaries – folks actively trying to get…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 10, October 2003 Occasionally we end up in places where we might have a life-threatening problem and really need…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Mobile phones for a blackout, or a working
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 10, October 2003 weekend abroad Those of us who were in New York City for the August blackout were delighted to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 10, October 2003 Sticky Fingers: Managing the Global Risk of Economic Espionage Steven Fink Dearborn Trade…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Being polite when the alternative will
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 10, October 2003 make things worse We all occasionally come up against people in positions of authority who are…
Read moreDue Diligence — Picking up the pieces
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 9, September 2003 In an excellent article in Chief Executive Magazine…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 9, September 2003 The economics of economic espionage Imagine for a moment that your company is developing a new…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Increased police use of Tasers™
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 9, September 2003 We read an article an article entitled Police seek ways to avoid firing guns in a recent issue…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Stealing your secrets: Cheap and easy…
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 9, September 2003 In many large companies roughly 70% of the value of the company lies in its intellectual…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Without trust there can be no betrayal
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 9, September 2003 Some time ago we had the chance to speak with a man who for many years had shared an office with…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 9, September 2003 Beyond Fear Bruce Schneier Copernicus Books ISBN: 0-387-02620-7 295 pages $25.00…
Read moreDue Diligence — Property ownership by the non-rich
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 8, August 2003 in developing countries The West has a highly developed sense of commerce and property. The British…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 8, August 2003 Connecting the dots We recently attended a dinner party where people were discussing intelligence…
Read moreExecutive Protection — The protective specialist as personal trainer
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 8, August 2003 Protective specialists perform a number of services. In the high-risk areas in which LUBRINCO does…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Gun locks and “smart” guns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 8, August 2003 According to the Centers for Disease Control, roughly 13,000 American children die each year. Of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — When the cure turns out to be worse
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 8, August 2003 than the disease Junk e-mail is a serious problem with which everyone is grappling. As an example,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 8, August 2003 The Quiet Threat Ronald L. Mendell Charles C Thomas Publisher ISBN: 0-398-07389-9 208 pages $49.95…
Read moreDue Diligence — The implications of hiring and firing
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 7, July 2003 In the last few weeks we have come across several people who were let go for what appeared to be no…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 7, July 2003 Identifying the problem before you make drastic social changes to solve it Back in the late 1950s,…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Tips for U.S. owner-drivers on being stopped
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 7, July 2003 by the police If you are stopped by the police while driving you should, in general, pull over, turn…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Protecting home broadband connections
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 7, July 2003 Broadband connections are very good for the user, and a definite improvement from dial-up…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Deciding whom to stiff
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 7, July 2003 Playing hardball can no doubt have a place in business, but it is important to be sure that everyone…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 7, July 2003 The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream James M. O’Kane Transaction…
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Chief Executive Magazine - July 2003 Chief-Executive-July-2003 Picking Up The Pieces. L. Burke Files quoted in article
Read moreDue Diligence — Why it is hard to sue big companies and win
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 6, June 2003 There are companies that spend a lot of money on attorneys. When this is the case, the practice is…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 6, June 2003 How attractive are you? If you habitually spend time with models, dancers, singers, and thespians,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 6, June 2003 time, again and again Contributed by Basilio Bob Reyes Jr., Executive Protection Officer and Security…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 6, June 2003 increased and smarter deployment Contributed by Private Transcription Solutions (PrivaTrans)…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Cognitive dissonance theory and the
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 6, June 2003 recovery of stolen assets The LUBRINCO Group has been quite successful in aiding in the location and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 6, June 2003 mobile phones As our readers know, we consider the safety of information to be very important. You…
Read moreDue Diligence — Using cultural anthropologists in business deals
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2003 Many years ago this editor’s father, Yellow Fox, was involved in setting up a potential business…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2003 Should large corporations care about OPSEC? We at The LUBRINCO Group tend to start our associations…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Shifting mores, sexual harassment, insults,
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2003 and knowing when to change Our first experience with the shifting relationship between men and women…
Read moreTechnical Issues —MailWasher Pro Version 3.0
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2003 We don’t generally re-discuss products we have reviewed. But the release of the commercial version of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Wild burros as tools of theft
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2003 We recently heard of someone who, while helping a friend move things in his garage, came across a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 5, May 2003 2003 Local Court & County Record Retrievers BRB Publications ISBN 1-879792-71-0 600 pages $39.95…
Read moreDue Diligence — Investment issues
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 4, April 2003 Funding illegal acts When you make an investment, you need to understand the underlying philosophy…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 4, April 2003 National Operations Security Conference & Exhibition The annual national OPSEC security conference…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 4, April 2003 Contributed by Terry Phillips ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not necessarily…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 4, April 2003 Bomb threats can happen at any time. When a bomb threat is received you need to get as much…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 4, April 2003 Someone recently asked why it was that, as The LUBRINCO Group got larger, the number of offices we…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 4, April 2003 Millionaires’ Selection A resource of companies from Art to Yacht http://www.mselection.com/…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 3, March 2003 One of our clients runs a very successful consulting firm. The firm has a central office, but…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 3, March 2003 Why we really need to know who your adversaries are… One of the discouraging things we see is the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 3, March 2003 If your company has people or property throughout the world, or does business throughout the world,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Backing up encryption keys
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 3, March 2003 and remembering pass phrases Encryption is increasingly important, and there are many excellent…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — TriWest Health Care Alliance Corp.
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 3, March 2003 The Department of Defense recently announced the theft of a computer from the TriWest Health Care…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 3, March 2003 Public Records Online, 4th Edition Michael L. Sankey and Peter J. Weber ISBN: 1-889150-37-1 480…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 2, February 2003 Due diligence is the verification of representations and claims made by one party to another. It…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 2, February 2003 OPSEC and the law of trade secrets Both federal and state authorities have recognized the need…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Smuggling and theft in air travel
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 2, February 2003 As most travelers now know, you are no longer allowed to lock you luggage when traveling by air.…
Read moreTechnical Issues — DUI / DWI: Unintended consequences
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 2, February 2003 Contributed by Edward N. Conter, III Esq. ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — German companies as a fruitful
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 2, February 2003 ground for spies According to articles in the German press, the German National Criminal Police…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 2, February 2003 Smith & Wesson First Response knife Smith & Wesson ID #: 195190000 $59.95 http://shopping.smith-…
Read moreDue Diligence — Why our feet get muddy exercising financial due diligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 1, January 2003 Some time ago I got a call from a friend who is an Emmy award-winning documentary film editor and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 1, January 2003 First mail and newspapers, then voicemail, now e-mail as an indicator We have spoken in the past…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Sexual harassment policy as a tool
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 1, January 2003 Protection against sexual harassment is a good thing, as is protection against a variety of other…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 1, January 2003 though you believe your IT staff already deals with these problems When you read about viruses and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The “Vail Letter”, FTC, FRCA, and
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 1, January 2003 Background Checks Attorney Judy Vail wrote to the Federal Trade Commission in April 1999 asking…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 6 Number 1, January 2003 Philosophical Foundations of Leadership David Cawthon ISBN 0-7658-0125-6 114 pages $29.95…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, December 2002 Laundering (AML) regulations: Our comments! The much-discussed Patriot Act, that was recently-passed with little…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, December 2002 On the examination of hard drives: Looking in the wrong direction We recently got an e-mail asking if we either…
Read moreExecutive Protection — When the risk exceeds the money
From the AEGIS e-Journal, December 2002 A few months ago we had a client who wanted to go to Rwanda, which, because of its recent, but nominally-ended civil…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Personal computer invisibility
From the AEGIS e-Journal, December 2002 In a corporation there are two sources of attack on computers. The first is internal and the second is external. At…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — In Veritas, vino
From the AEGIS e-Journal, December 2002 Contributed by Erik Sherman. ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, December 2002 The 12th Annual Anti-Money Laundering Audit and Compliance Forum Institute for International Research…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 11, November 2002 There has been some concern on the part of both financial institutions and financial…
Read moreExecutive Protection — John Wayne as a role model, or how to die
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 11, November 2002 sooner than you should We were recently asked by an executive about training in defensive…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Know your sender, know your caller, and know
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 11, November 2002 that they know you Who are you? We have recently begun receiving spam e-mail from – of all…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 11, November 2002 As part of our ongoing effort to help clients identify and deal with risk, we have been working…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 11, November 2002 Find It Online 3rd Edition Alan M. Schlein Facts On Demand Press ISBN: 1-889150-29-0 564 pages…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 11, November 2002 OPSEC: Operations or security? The identification and protection of critical but not…
Read moreDue Diligence — Why you don’t need to learn Chinese any more
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002 than you needed to learn Russian If you attend a conference of intelligence professionals, you…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002 OPSEC as synonym for vulnerability management Risk management is often more poorly understood by…
Read moreExecutive Protection —When not to doze
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002 It is not uncommon for people being driven to and from work to either doze off or work. Since…
Read moreTechnical Issues — GSM handsets for international use
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002 by US business travelers Since we will be discussing international roaming on mobile handsets in…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Saychass
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002 For those who do not speak Russian, saychass literally means “now.” It is sort of like the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002 International GSM roaming for US business travelers In an attempt to get a feel for what was…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 9, September 2002 Threat assessment, vulnerability analysis, or risk assessment: What do you need before you can…
Read moreDue Diligence — Good name, bad family
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 9, September 2002 In September 2001, a group of investors with whom we deal were approached by a Chuck Sullivan, a…
Read moreExecutive Protection — The new case for corporate aircraft
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 9, September 2002 A number of high-level security people we know are no longer willing to travel on commercial…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Free software
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 9, September 2002 Downloading free software off the Internet is much like kissing the boy or girl that everyone…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 9, September 2002 distribución física en Colombia: Caso Puerto de Buenaventura (El Proyecto Triada) Contributed by…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 9, September 2002 WorldCompliance.com http://www.worldcompliance.com/ Terrorism and the Patriot Act got you down?…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 8, August 2002 One of the services we perform is the occasional transport of people with things that are compact…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 8, August 2002 Who is that masked invoice? The work that we do is generally very confidential. Indeed, we are so…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 8, August 2002 Since a good portion of our work is high-risk protective services, we work with a lot of protective…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Keeping the Deus out of the Machina
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 8, August 2002 There is a tendency in today’s world to substitute technology for common sense, and assume that…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Tipsy hotel guests, forceful security
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 8, August 2002 A female advertising executive by the name of Anna and her boyfriend, Aaron, were entertaining a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 8, August 2002 Sprint PCS Wireless Web Modem (Aircard 510) (Type II PCMCIA Card) Sprint PCS…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 7, July 2002 When most of us think of criminals using the postal system, we generally think of incoming mail being…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 7, July 2002 Spooks in the rag trade One industry that needs to deal with economic espionage is the fashion…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 7, July 2002 And what do you do about it? One of the things that we have puzzled about recently is the instruction…
Read moreTechnical Issues — On arming pilots
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 7, July 2002 The arming of American commercial pilots has an interesting history. An FAA rule was adopted in the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 7, July 2002 and what we should (and shouldn’t) do about it Terrorism is very much on everyone’s mind these days.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 7, July 2002 Voicestream G100 iStream PC Card (Type II PC Card) and GPRS Service Voicestream Wireless…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2002 Insurance after 9-11 The US had been a virtual island in the sea of the world’s political attacks up…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2002 Loose lips We were recently asked to gather some information on a company that had taken delivery of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2002 A small but very prestigious law firm in Los angles received several threats against its employees.…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Why you should bring your own driver overseas
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2002 If you work abroad you may well be working in an area of higher or high risk, and certain security…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — HIPAA compliance in health care
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2002 HIPAA contained a provision that gave Congress until 21August 1999, to pass comprehensive privacy…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 6, June 2002 Symantec Security Response - Virus Definitions Download Page Symantec Norton AntiVirus…
Read moreDue Diligence — Could Enron have been prevented?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 5, May 2002 As risk managers we deal with problems that run the gamut from access control to the complex…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 5, May 2002 Who are the bad guys? An increasingly significant part of our casework is in the area of OPSEC within…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 5, May 2002 Most of our clients – indeed, most people, independent of their wealth, position, or celebrity – face…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Killing magnetic media
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 5, May 2002 We are given to understand that the USPS is using devices to irradiate mail to destroy any pathogens…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 5, May 2002 It is always a good idea to check documentation, and birth certificates are a generally accepted form…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 5, May 2002 2002 Local Court and County Record Retrievers BRB Publications, Inc., ISBN#: 1-879792-67-2 600 pages…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 4, April 2002 We recently spoke to someone whose company had rebuilt its mailroom and put in procedures and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 4, April 2002 Outsourcing executive intelligence gathering When we think of intelligence gathering, we often…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 4, April 2002 should you care? Ever wonder, as a senior executive, how safe your enterprise is from an assault in…
Read moreTechnical Issues — A straightforward approach to getting around
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 4, April 2002 European privacy laws in prospective-employee background checks In the wake of September 11th we are…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — IRS e-mail audit scam
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 4, April 2002 The Michigan Department of Treasury recently received an alert from the Internal Revenue Service…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 4, April 2002 PC Phone Home $29 for individual copy. Enterprise version available. Freeware version (not…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2002 decisions that turn out to be wrong Sometimes, after an analysis of the facts, people make…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2002 The National OPSEC Conference and Exhibition This year’s National OPSEC Conference and Exhibition…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Mark Steyn: In the absence of guns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2002 When you think of places where you need protective services, you tend to think of places like…
Read moreTechnical Issues — A fresh approach to network protection
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2002 Contributed by Joe Krull, CPP, VP, Security, Vsecure Technologies (US) ([email protected]).…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2002 functions are handled by finance or corporate, and not security We work extensively with the world…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 3, March 2002 25 Essential Lessons for Employee Management Dennis L. DeMay Facts On Demand Press,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 2, February 2002 We never met a fraud we didn’t like. This one was not exceptional, but still sort of cute. A…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 2, February 2002 Why you should hire us to do an OPSEC audit, even though you are bigger than we are I recently…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 2, February 2002 On a recent trip to Bogota I met with a man who no longer made use of protective agents. His…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Stealing from debit cards
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 2, February 2002 In a sure sign that identity thieves are developing more sophisticated techniques, dozens of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — A field audit
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 2, February 2002 In the 1983 film Superman III, a company discovers that money is being cleverly stolen, and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 2, February 2002 Practical Handbook for Private Investigations Rory J. McMahon CRC Press http://www.crcpress.com/…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, January 2002 Contributed by journalist Terry Phillips ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, January 2002 The prospective-employee lie A pharmacy conglomerate had plans to expand. They specialized in…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Protecting the fast-living
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, January 2002 Some subjects being protected can be a bit more difficult to protect than others. A long-time…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The 13th annual survey of salaries and bonuses
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, January 2002 in the security/loss prevention field Contributed by Dr. Steven Langer, President, Abbott, Langer…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, January 2002 Reprinted from the 15 December 2001 CRYPTO-GRAM (http://www.counterpane.com/crypto- gram.html)…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, January 2002 Marquis Private Jet Card Marquis Jet Partners, Inc. http://www.marquisjet.com/ 1-866-538-1400…
Read moreDue Diligence — Workplace violence is a serious problem
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 12, December 2001 Contributed by Jay Crawford, CPP, http://home.switchboard.com/jbcrawfordCPP…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 12, December 2001 biological warfare Contributed by Red Thomas ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The twenty most critical internet security
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 12, December 2001 vulnerabilities: The experts’ consensus Last year we listed the SANS Institute list of the ten…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Unprofessional practices,
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 12, December 2001 unprofessional behavior Some time ago we ate in a restaurant that had bad service. One customer…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 12, December 2001 CopyTele DCS-1200 and USS-900 CopyTele, Inc. 900 Walt Whitman Road Melville, NY 11747 Tel:…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 12, December 2001 outside sources to help establish an OPSEC program There has been a lot of talk (including…
Read moreDue Diligence — Where best to invest your scarce protective dollars
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 11, November 2001 In these interesting times there is some pressure within corporations to do something about…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 11, November 2001 Giving away the store In the August 2001 issue of ÆGIS we discussed a case of moral outrage…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 11, November 2001 (and why we no longer need sky marshals) We often see problems where people fail to take any…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The New Euro
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 11, November 2001 It has been reported here in the e-journal as well as in other publications that, with the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Hire in haste, repent in receivership
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 11, November 2001 In a place as ordered and orderly as Germany, the concept of background checks on employees or…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 11, November 2001 Online Resource Guide for Law Enforcement Tim Dees Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-018685-6…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 10, October 2001 Internet users should always think twice before responding to e-mail requests for their personal…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 10, October 2001 Virtual company Edward and Stuart were sophisticated international businessmen, or at least they…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 10, October 2001 Contributed by Shane Steinkamp, Steinkamp Systems ([email protected]). Contributed…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Fake financial documents
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 10, October 2001 ICC’s Commercial Crime Services announced the recent closure of an online banking fraud involving…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Pirates
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 10, October 2001 Pirate attacks rose last year by 57% compared with 1999 figures and were nearly four and half…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 10, October 2001 ESSEX Victim Rescue Unit (VRU) ESSEX PB&R $375 (10 year service life) 1-618-659-9070…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 9, September 2001 Looking out our window at the cloud of smoke coming from the empty space where we saw the World…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 9, September 2001 Exposure during times of crisis Human tragedy brings out the best and the worst in people, and…
Read moreExecutive Protection — When violence may be the better choice
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 9, September 2001 The official view has increasingly been that it is both inappropriate and unwise for a private…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Fundamentalist religions, and solutions that are
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 9, September 2001 worse than the problems Most of us find it difficult to understand the mentality of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — United Flight 93
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 9, September 2001 At 8:01 A.M. on 11 September, United Flight 93 departed from Newark for San Francisco with 38…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 9, September 2001 A Guide to Executive Protection Nick Nicholson Perpetuity Press, ISBN 1899287 59 0 80 pages…
Read moreDue Diligence — Residential and small-commercial construction
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2001 Design and construction errors are not uncommon. In particular, building materials and practices…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Vetting luggage on corporate jets
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2001 Security on private aircraft is frequently relatively low on the food chain. While we are often…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Technology Down on the farm
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2001 It is difficult to imagine a connection between farming and the cloak-and- dagger activities of the…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Illegal guns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2001 There are three subjects that we try to avoid discussing, because they traditionally pit a moral…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2001 The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation® The Advanced Reid Technique® Program John E.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 8, August 2001 P&G/Unilever caper When something bad has happened, it is never appropriate to blame the victim.…
Read moreDue Diligence — The new Euro: A counterfeiter’s dream
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 7, July 2001 Currently, the most counterfeited bill is the US $100. This is because it is a world-wide, easily…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 7, July 2001 Smile and Dial We recently did the research for a potential class action suit against a major…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Tracking unexpected visitors
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 7, July 2001 Most protective work is a mixture of facilitation, preventing accidents from happening, and dealing…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Wireless Security
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 7, July 2001 When it comes to wireless surveillance, the federal government has some really neat tools. The FBI…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Sticky fingers and stolen code
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 7, July 2001 Six people have been sentenced for the theft by Avanti employees of code from Cadence Design Systems…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 7, July 2001 The National Directory of Public Record Vendors BRB Publications, Inc., ISBN#: 1-879792-63-X $59.50…
Read moreDue Diligence — Obligations to women
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 6, June 2001 There are a number of areas in which we need to exercise due diligence to ensure that some of the…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Blood supplies on the hoof
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 6, June 2001 While the movies may make kidnapping and assassination the primary threats in protective services, we…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Pay us now, pay us later, pay
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 6, June 2001 somebody else later still…. Some time ago we had a client who had a large number of laptops stolen…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 6, June 2001 EVAC•U8® Emergency Escape Smoke Hood Brookdale International Systems Retail price $69.95 (we bought 2…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 6, June 2001 Secondary indicators It is interesting to note that indicators of behavior are very common, and that…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The cost of power theft
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 6, June 2001 More than 100 years have passed since Edison introduced the elements of electrical service. It is…
Read moreDue Diligence — CYA?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 5, May 2001 We were asked to help develop a protective protocol for the annual conferences of a law enforcement…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 5, May 2001 Thinking about OPSEC audits There are four reasons (we are not talking of statutory requirements, but,…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Family help abroad
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 5, May 2001 When we talk of executive protection we tend to talk primarily of reducing danger for our target…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Worms and other computer problems
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 5, May 2001 We have someone close to us who smokes cigarettes and doesn’t wear a seatbelt. At some point he is…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Wireless network party lines
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 5, May 2001 Some years ago a friend had his telephone line crossed with that of the Brooklyn DA, turning it into a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 5, May 2001 Secrets and Lies Bruce Schneier John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-471-25311-1, $29.99. There are a lot of…
Read moreDue Diligence — Giving away data
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 4, April 2001 We have on occasion discussed dumpster diving, and about the fact that once it is off your property…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 4, April 2001 Estimating risk Security is about managing risk, rather than avoiding threats. Because of this, a…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Living low on the hog
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 4, April 2001 In these hardened times, it is not uncommon for a public company which is closing plants, laying off…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Bypassing encryption
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 4, April 2001 Many of us rely on encryption to keep communications private. We can encrypt email using programs…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 4, April 2001 Privatel™ 960V Personal Telephone Security L3 Communications 1 Federal Street, 3 A&E 3 SW, Camden NJ…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Giving guns to your employer
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 4, April 2001 We were recently the local contractor for a protective detail in the Mid-East. While in general we…
Read moreDue Diligence — Will former employers assert rights?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, March 2001 Former employers might assert outright ownership of your company’s proprietary technology, either in…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, March 2001 Basics to avoid embarrassment What you don’t know can hurt you. Consider this: What if you spent…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — An interview on HYIP
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, March 2001 Conversation with a HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) program leader Clyde Alan Smyth-Howlett…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Kidnapping: Plan ahead
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, March 2001 Before a crisis the most important step your company can take to react effectively to a kidnapping…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Steal this company - pa pa please
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, March 2001 The easiest way to steal large companies’ vital information is through the Internet gateways of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 3, March 2001 The National Directory of Public Record Vendors BRB Publications, Inc. http://www.brbpub.com/…
Read moreDue Diligence — Follow-up background checks
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, February 2001 Two case, one lesson learned: Follow-up background searches are sometimes required on key people.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, February 2001 French aircraft bids A client, who manufactures a very precise aircraft part for use in jet…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, February 2001 Being protected is extremely onerous and expensive. Targets — or clients as they are sometimes…
Read moreTechnical Issues — How to save $80,000 a year at a cost of millions
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, February 2001 We have, of late, heard a lot of whining about programmers extorting money from former employers…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, February 2001 Digital Evidence and Computer Crime Eoghan Casey Academic Press http://www.academicpress.com 280…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Steal that wallet
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 2, February 2001 A thief who takes your wallet can steal your identity, too, and use your good name to run up big…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 1, January 2001 Business transactions must now include consideration of environmental issues. Complex laws can…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Questions
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 1, January 2001 20 Questions On Competitive Intelligence 1. Does your company have information that could be of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 1, January 2001 1. Before turning on the ignition, make sure the wipers are not frozen to the glass. (Always stop…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 1, January 2001 Contributed by Izhar Bar-Gad, CTO, Sanctum, Inc. Contributed articles do not necessarily reflect…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 1, January 2001 The following was taken from a presentation by Warren Holmes and provided to us by Mr. L. Smith.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 4 Number 1, January 2001 Psychology and The Internet Edited by Jane Gackenback Academic Press 349 pages, $59.95…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 12, December 2000 The English translation of The China Spy Guide There has been a lot of talk recently about the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 12, December 2000 In the best of all possible worlds nobody would need executive protection (and we would have to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 12, December 2000 Do you know what “interruptible tariff” means. Most people, industries, and institutions did not…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — More art
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 12, December 2000 At an art fair in Portland, Ore. three years ago, John spotted a watercolor by American…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 12, December 2000 Money Laundering, A New International Law Enforcement Model Guy Stessens Cambridge University…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 12, December 2000 “Art forgery is the most marvelous crime Lots of money to be made without penalty.” Many…
Read moreDue Diligence – Notes on saving money
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 11, November 2000 In a very real sense, due diligence is risk management. Oddly, many people are unwilling to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 11, November 2000 Ethics in the high-tech industry, and elsewhere Microsoft’s antitrust trial has provided several…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 11, November 2000 Recently someone known to our company, but not under our care, was kidnapped in Southeast Asia.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 11, November 2000 The prime rule of professional computer system development appears to be “Never time to do it…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 11, November 2000 Reprinted with permission from Offshore Alert (http://www.offshorebusiness.com/) January 31,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 11, November 2000 Introduction to Executive Protection Dale L. June CRC Press ISBN: 0849381282 276 pages $74.95…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 10, October 2000 In any investigation, you need to bring with you a basic understanding of the entities you are…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 10, October 2000 What CI can do for your company CI can help with the information an organization needs to make…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Protecting the elderly
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 10, October 2000 As people grow older and less capable of fending for themselves, they face three special sets of…
Read moreTechnical Issues — FAXes and PDAs
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 10, October 2000 Faxes Several manufacturers are selling facsimile machines that use thermal imaging film. This…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The U.S. is listening
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 10, October 2000 European plans for controlling encryption software have nothing to do with law enforcement and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 10, October 2000 SecureClean AccessData’s SecureClean is a program that preeminently eliminates unwanted PC data.…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Choosing what to have stolen
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 9, September 2000 We got a call from a couple who had been robbed. As it turned out, they had been renting out…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 9, September 2000 The Criminal Record Handbook Total Information Services, Inc. 1-800-331-9175 The book covers…
Read moreDue Diligence — Negative Information on Background Checks
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 9, September 2000 For four long years, Bronti Kelly couldn’t figure out why no one wanted to hire him. He handed…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 9, September 2000 Web-Based Tracking Strings It is possible to add a “Web Based Tracker String” (WBTS) to…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Proposal for IRS to regulate handguns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 9, September 2000 The following is a copy of a Senate bill as proposed.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 9, September 2000 Key loggers enable one to capture every keystroke entered on a computer and then to replay them…
Read moreDue Diligence — The expanding definition of due diligence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 8, August 2000 If one looks at the original due diligence case, the decision of the court was that the securities…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 8, August 2000 Contributed by Chuck Krueger ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not necessarily…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 8, August 2000 security threats Editor’s Note: the ÆGIS e-journal has discussed a number of times the fact that…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 8, August 2000 Niche Electronic Media: an introduction for business intelligence professionals Contributed by…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 8, August 2000 Seven miles off the coast of southern England, a group of American Internet entrepreneurs is…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 8, August 2000 Security Journal Perpetuity Press Limited (in conjunction with ASIS International) Published…
Read moreDue Diligence — Decision-making in uncertainty
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 7, July 2000 Decision-making is about risk management, and making good, informed decisions. These good, informed…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Corruption
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 7, July 2000 What is corruption? As an adjective, corrupt is alternately defined as spoiled, tainted, debased,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 7, July 2000 Contributed by Lorraine Clohan, Commercial Reports, Inc. ([email protected]). Contributed…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — The Final Report of the Federal Trade
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 7, July 2000 Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security Recently the FTC concluded its study and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 7, July 2000 Corporate Espionage Ira Winkler Prima Publishing, $18.95 Although it has been in circulation for some…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Encryption, secrets, and spies
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 7, July 2000 Encryption was devised so that a message sent to the recipient could be read only by the recipient.…
Read moreDue Diligence — Encouraging theft, fraud, and violence
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2000 When we speak of fraud, we generally speak of the fraud triangle: Opportunity, Pressure, and…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2000 Central & Eastern Europe, both paradise and hell for CI professionals: Some special considerations…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2000 Most of us are not in a position to afford protective agents. In general this is not a problem,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Protecting your home and small-business
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2000 computer from crackers There is increasing concern about attacks on computers, with the commercial…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Porn surfers go to Chad, plus a bonus
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2000 story from the land of Duh! Telephone subscribers have been complaining about "free" porn Web sites…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 7 Number 6, June 2000 Against The Gods - The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein John Wiley and Sons, $27.95 This…
Read moreDue Diligence — A fool and his money are soon popular
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 5, May 2000 In the last 6 months we have been approached by people, and companies, who have invested in High Yield…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 5, May 2000 What the barber knew Chuck is a good man. Chuck mustered out of the US Armed in 1945 and came west to…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Cybercrime on the increase
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 5, May 2000 Cybercrime is on the increase, with financial losses at US companies more than doubling to $266…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 5, May 2000 and e-commerce web sites My friend John recently sold his trendy East Side apartment overlooking…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 5, May 2000 We have long made a case against carrying guns on protective details, preferring, instead, to assign…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 5, May 2000 Offshore Financial Services, an Introduction J. Kevin Higgins Counselors, Ltd. 1 (242) 322-1000.…
Read moreDue Diligence — Reputational risk
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 4, April 2000 Reputational risk is the potential risk that negative publicity regarding an institution’s business…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 4, April 2000 How do you know what your CI needs may be? CI is a process intended to assist in maintaining or…
Read moreExecutive Protection — The protective agent abroad
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 4, April 2000 In many third world environments a combination of poverty, corruption, organized (and unorganized)…
Read moreTechnical Issues — E-mail and privacy
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 4, April 2000 Let’s look at some specific threats. Most Web browsers hide the HTML portion of a link, showing only…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Echelon
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 4, April 2000 Echelon is a network of surveillance stations stitched together in the 1970’s by the United States’…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 4, April 2000 Financial Investigations and Forensic Accounting George A. Manning, CFE, E.A. CRC Press ISBN:…
Read moreDue Diligence — Location of hidden assets in divorce proceedings
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 3, March 2000 Divorce cases are like many other types of commercial litigation. Sometimes the parties are…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 3, March 2000 Join with your peers. For most of us, experience comes with, well, experience. In the best of all…
Read moreExecutive Protection — High-end jewelry equals high-risk
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 3, March 2000 High-end jewelry and precious gems remains high on the target list of organized crime. Jewel thieves…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Phone mail raid compromises 27 police detectives
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 3, March 2000 In the September 1999 issue of the ÆGIS e-Journal we told and showed you how easy it was to break a…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Satellite technology thief is killed
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 3, March 2000 A designer of electrical devices devised a new, smaller, less expensive antenna for receiving audio…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 3, March 2000 Password Recovery Tool Kit AccessData http://www.accessdata.com/ 1-801-377-5410 This is an excellent…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 2, February 2000 We recently worked on a metha-amphetamine production and distribution case. Several officers were…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 2, February 2000 CI for the small company or individual We are often asked whether a small company or an…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Kidnapping in Mexico
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 2, February 2000 Contributed by Antonio Benavide, Chief of Police, Escobedo Police Department, Nuevo Leon State,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Securing today’s health care applications
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 2, February 2000 Contributed by Mike Rothman,[email protected], executive vice president of SHYM Technology, a…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Sports book scams
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 2, February 2000 Before we get into the specifics of sport book scams, it is important to know how a sports book…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 2, February 2000 Undercover - 2nd Edition Motto and June CRC Press http://www.crcpress.com/ 1-800-374-3401 This is…
Read moreDue Diligence — Strategic partner search: Central Europe
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 1, JANUARY 2000 Who’s looking for a partner in Central Europe these days? Well, it seems that almost everyone is.…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 1, JANUARY 2000 Using the web: Don’t get rid of the librarian While knowledge may be power, for most of us the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 1, JANUARY 2000 Contributed by Edward Niam, president and CEO of Corporate Solutions, inc. ([email protected]) ,…
Read moreTechnical Issues — A miscellany
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 1, JANUARY 2000 Siemens German digital signature chip hacked Hackers have succeeded in cracking the Siemens…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — From Guadalajara, Mexico, with love
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 1, JANUARY 2000 On a recent training (on occupational frauds and how to investigate them) expedition to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 3 Number 1, JANUARY 2000 We have received several new products and books to review that we will catch up with in the next…
Read moreDue Diligence — Slumlords —How they make a buck
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1999 We hear so much about slumlords and how they steal property: They get it cheap, they collect…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1999 An unmarked van slows and stops. The professional inside puts down his coffee and starts in on…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Dealing with stalkers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1999 We recently had to help a client deal with a stalker. Stalking is one of a set of ultimate forms…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Y2K - Next to the last
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1999 Earlier this year we discussed global positioning systems, personal computers, and mainframes.…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Peruvian guano bonds
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1999 A client recently presented several bonds along with a request for an opinion of value. He…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 12, December 1999 The Sourcebook Edited by Michael L. Sankey and James R. Flowers, Jr. BRB Publications $169.95 CD…
Read moreDue Diligence — Identity theft
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 11, November 1999 Last year, for most, the problem of identity theft wasn’t even on the radar screen, and now it…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 11, November 1999 False claims and their counterclaims As citizens, most of us believe that certain institutions…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Why you should plan to kidnap your boss
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 11, November 1999 If we in the protective services do our jobs properly, nothing bad happens to the folks we are…
Read moreTechnical Issues — HERF and HERF guns
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 11, November 1999 According to a California engineer who demonstrated a home-brew computer death-ray, with $500…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Land liquidation schemes
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 11, November 1999 Tens of thousands of frustrated property owners across the United States and Canada are getting…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 11, November 1999 Public Records Online Edited by Michael L. Sankey and James R. Flowers, Jr. Facts on Demand…
Read moreDue Diligence — Background Checks on doctors
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 10, October 1999 This article is beating a point to death about doing background checks before you hire someone. A…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 10, October 1999 Keeping insider information off the web In CI we want information. Sometimes that information is…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Getting your client to listen
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 10, October 1999 Protective service often boils down to identifying a danger and doing something about it, or, as…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The politics of encryption / The Skimmer
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 10, October 1999 The politics of encryption Although international encryption policies are restrictive and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Bank and the volcano
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 10, October 1999 This story was relayed to one of our editors by a senior finance minister in the Caribbean. A…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 10, October 1999 Online Competitive Intelligence Helen Burwell Facts on Demand Press $25.95 http://www.brbpub.com/…
Read moreDue Diligence — Checklists: Are they all they are supposed to be?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 9, September 1999 As financial investigators we are somewhat baffled by the proliferation of due diligence check…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 9, September 1999 Beware of your voicemail! There are many industries and professions that are highly competitive…
Read moreExecutive Protection — When it is time to let go
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 9, September 1999 Our job as protective agents is to see that no bad things happen. In real life most of the bad…
Read moreTechnical Issues — FTC vs Affordable Media (A must-read)
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 9, September 1999 The full case citation is [Federal Trade Commission vs Affordable Media LLC 9th Circuit Appeal…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Going undercover, and threat levels
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 9, September 1999 Threat levels when going undercover are directly related to three variables: Purpose, type of…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 9, September 1999 The Economics of Organized Crime Edited by: Gianluca Fiorentini and Sam Peltzman Centre for…
Read moreDue Diligence — Some good / bad examples?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 8, August 1999 “With Due Diligence you can determine who is the predator and who is the prey. The answer often…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 8, August 1999 Disinformation The process of disinformation is the creation of a plausible set of circumstances…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 8, August 1999 Piracy is alive and very dangerous. I have been persuaded to write this article after a friend…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Who can read your data?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 8, August 1999 We have all heard about PGP and how it will block all eyes from our e-mail and how important it is…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 8, August 1999 Who Knows What? Daniel Starer Henry Holt Go purchase this book. This is as great a source on…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Skip tracing
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 8, August 1999 How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? Once you have separated the credit challenged…
Read moreDue Diligence — Letter to the Editor
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 7, July 1999 Most of you have read about Martin R. Frankel’s apparent cunning fraud, in which he appears to have…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 7, July 1999 The Rapps on information brokerage You can search the net for many articles about one Mr. Edward…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Bait for kidnapping
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 7, July 1999 Below is an e-mail that a dear friend and a well-recognized international banker received. He…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Am I being bugged?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 7, July 1999 It is relatively uncommon for an individual or company to be the subject of electronic eavesdropping.…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — A simple tale of collections
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 7, July 1999 So you grant credit and then someone abuses it and now you have to collect. But from whom and from…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 7, July 1999 Federal Evidence, 1999 Courtroom Manual Professor Weissenburger Anderson Publishing Co. $55.00…
Read moreDue Diligence — What does it cost?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 6, June 1999 In past journals we have discussed scope of due diligence and purpose of due diligence, but we have…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 6, June 1999 Passive versus active Many conversations have hashed and rehashed the issue of competitive…
Read moreExecutive Protection — First Responder: Suspicious packages
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 6, June 1999 Greek Police Defuse Citibank Explosive Washington Times (03/29/99) P. A15 “Greek police defused a…
Read moreTechnical Issues — The technology of money
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 6, June 1999 Money is fascinating. The history of money is even more fascinating. The future of money is perhaps…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — A true-to-life set up
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 6, June 1999 We have often come across a case in which someone says that he has been set up, or that the problems…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 6, June 1999 Advanced Forensic Civil Investigations Paul J. Ciolino, CLI, CFE (Compiler) and Grace Elting Castle,…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 5, May 1999 Crossing the line I recently met with a director of security at a major corporation who mentioned that…
Read moreExecutive Protection — China
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 5, May 1999 When in China you must remember that the Government sees all and that the military — or those closely…
Read moreDue Diligence — Background check, why, and to what extent?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 5, May 1999 Should you spend the same amount of time and money on a background check for an executive of a large…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Melissa, the stripper and the virus. (and a little Y2K)
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 5, May 1999 Who — or what — is Melissa virus? To the best of our “who” understanding Melissa was a stripper in…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Follow that DNA
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 5, May 1999 Tagent DNA is now being used as tagent in certain chemicals. A tagent is a chemical or trace element…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 5, May 1999 Money Laundering, A guide for Criminal Investigations John Madinger, and Sydney A. Zalopany Published…
Read moreDue Diligence — Using reporters
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 4, April 1999 Those who have had a drivers license for more than 20 years will remember the card catalogues and…
Read moreOPSEC, Economic Espionage, and Competitive Intelligence — Quo vadis?
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 4, April 1999 Contributed by Ira ([email protected]). Contributed articles do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Infectious disease:TB a real threat
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 4, April 1999 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are considered by many as a blaring prophecy. In a more…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Internet scams: Something new. Not!
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 4, April 1999 In almost any social gathering the topic of conversation eventually drifts toward the question “.and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Y2K for the fun and education of us all
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 4, April 1999 In 1389, as he went to defend Kosovo against the Ottoman Turk Empire (he lost), Prince Lazar said…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 4, April 1999 The Economics of Organized Crime Edited by: Gianluca Fiorentini and Sam Peltzman Centre for Economic…
Read moreDue Diligence — Canadian SIN numbers
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 3, March 1999 The Canadian SIN is similar to a SSN in that the number is issued to all Canadian citizens and, just…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 3, March 1999 Dumpster diving, is it worth it? This is a basic article about a basic issue of trash and what we as…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Back to basics
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 3, March 1999 This editor recently met a young man, interested in becoming an executive protection agent, who…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Data encryption: New stuff and links
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 3, March 1999 On the 31st of December, 1998 US Commerce Department released new regulations implementing looser…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Y2K for the fun and education of us all
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 3, March 1999 More stuff on Y2K - this is just some stuff we have accumulated over the last several months for the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 3, March 1999 Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering James R. Richards CRC Press…
Read moreDue Diligence — Investing in China? Watch your assets
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, February 1999 International Trade and Investment Companies (ITIC) in China are the only companies allowed to…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, February 1999 Option revaluation and the weakness it causes The recent bear market prompted more than 100…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Capital flight occurs concurrent with social
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, February 1999 destabilization and executive protection opportunities / needs People and capital – if you…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Business tax ID number prefixes and Social
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, February 1999 Security numbers Business tax ID number prefixes The Service Center of the Internal Revenue…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, February 1999 A well-known and successful businessman owned a burger franchise. He had owned this franchise for…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, February 1999 SCAM - Shams, Stings and Shady Business Practices and How You Can Avoid Them Peter H. Engle St.…
Read moreDue Diligence — YBM Stock and a cheap prevention
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1999 Trading of YBM Magnex International shares was halted on the Toronto Stock Exchange, following the…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1999 Simple, but effective, basics Some excellent places to gather intelligence on both an industry and…
Read moreExecutive Protection — Crank calls and threats
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1999 When we think of workplace violence ─ particularly workplace homicide ─ most of us imagine either…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Radios and finger prints
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1999 MOBILTRAK A new company called MOBILTRAK uses advanced-technology radio frequency scanning and…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — A quick $250,000 - please!
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1999 A Detroit-area auto supply executive is scheduled to be arraigned this week on charges that he…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1999 The Economics of Organized Crime Fiorentini and Peltzman Centre for Economic Policy Research…
Read moreDue Diligence — Listen to your gut
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 2, December 1998 A due diligence investigator had been engaged to prepare a comprehensive background report on a…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — Casablanca, the epic money
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 2, December 1998 laundering case Without bankers knowing it, for three years there was a time bomb ticking in a…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 2, December 1998 Expert Economic Testimony: Reference Guide for Judges and Attorneys Thomas R. Ireland, Ph.D. et…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 2, December 1998 your customer” rules have banks forming intelligence departments Are you a potential criminal?…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 2, December 1998 Our firm was recently asked if we could provide the financial portion of anonymous travel into…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 2, December 1998 We spend a good deal of time identifying data critical to our business and protecting it. We…
Read moreDue Diligence — A bad deal that kept getting worse
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, November 1998 This is story is of a recent due diligence investigation of a proposed acquisition. The client…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, November 1998 Aerial surveillance Recently a semiconductor manufacturer was constructing a new plant in…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, November 1998 Chechnya's top anti-kidnapping official was executed 10/25/98 when a bomb tore his car to pieces…
Read moreTechnical Issues — Y2K: New and fun stuff
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, November 1998 BSRMJ apologizes for berating this issue - but this story is a bit different. The State of…
Read moreReal Stories from the Field — A German used car dealer emigrates!
From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, November 1998 Some times the little things really do matter. A Used car dealer borrowed the equivalent of $3…
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From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, November 1998 Investigating Computer Crime Frank Clark and Ken Diliberto CRC Press 228 pages This book is aimed…
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