From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2005
Upcoming Events Reminder Service Specialized Consulting Services http://www.speconsult.com/services/events.html +1-818-980-6990 Those who travel internationally need to be aware of holidays and events that might affect their trip. And if you’ve done much traveling you know that avoidable surprises can happen very easily if you haven’t done your homework. While the information you need is readily available if you know where to look, it takes some sophistication of effort to find what you need. In a corporation where many travel, it is better to have an outside source provide a vetted list, rather than tasking an overburdened (and perhaps underqualified) assistant. Using a reliable outside source saves all parties involved a great deal of time, and increases the chance of the information being current and reliable. Our personal choice is the Upcoming Events Reminder, which we get quarterly from Specialized Consulting Services, the good folks who provide us with the monthly Traveler’s World Threat Map and the daily Travel Advisories Subscription Service that we discussed previously in the March 2003 AEGIS (http://www.lubrinco.com/ejournal/ej200303.pdf). The cost is $500, annually, pre-paid, for either the quarterly or weekly versions, or $900 to subscribe to both. Combining the quarterly and weekly subscriptions provides significant advance notification of upcoming events via the quarterly, with the benefit of the weekly’s reminder and inclusion of additional events that have been scheduled after the quarterly has gone out. If you get a subscription by December 15th, they will give you a complimentary 1-year subscription to the Traveler’s World Threat Map, which would ordinarily cost you $50. Just tell them when you subscribe that you saw the offer in AEGIS (and no, we don’t get anything from them for doing this). 7. Subscription/Unsubscription/Copyright Information •• ÆGIS is supported and maintained by voluntary efforts. This publication is owned, published, and copyright © 2005 by The LUBRINCO Group Ltd, Inc. and Financial Examinations and Evaluations, Inc. It is edited jointly by Richard Isaacs (RBIsaacs@lubrinco.com) and L. Burke Files (LBFiles@feeinc.com). ÆGIS, November 2005 8 LUBRINCO provides services in three high-threat areas, too specialized to be dealt-with in-house, that can adversely affect domestic and international bottom lines. • Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 OPSEC compliance. 1. American businesses lose $300 billion annually to competitive intelligence, economic espionage, and information theft. 2. Sarbanes-Oxley requires internal controls tracking the costs, and impact on valuation, of competitive intelligence, economic espionage, and information theft. o LUBRINCO provides private sector access to OPSEC, the government-standard process for identification, valuation, and protection of intellectual property and critical information from competitive intelligence, economic espionage, and information theft. • International asset location and due diligence. o Location of concealed assets in fraud, theft, and divorce. o Due diligence to prevent fraud and loss in China, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the offshore financial centers, Latin America, the Caribbean. o Financial fraud and anti-money laundering program development and training for compliance with the US International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 and the EU Revised Money Laundering Directive of 2001. • Protection of management, staff, and families. o In the high-threat environments of Latin America, Africa, the Mid- East, and Southeast Asia. o When traveling and living overseas. o When transporting items of substantial value. 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