Threats to an organization’s interests and reputation may come from any number of sources such as disloyal staff, unscrupulous distributors or unprincipled competitors. Such threats can take numerous forms ranging from fraud, breaches of intellectual property rights, contract infringement, breaches of confidentiality agreements, conflicts of interest, extortion, espionage or sabotage.

GovRiskCo provides end-to-end support by first analyzing and mapping the nature and extent of potential vulnerabilities before designing, implementing and testing improved systems and procedures to mitigate risk exposure. We thereby contribute towards more timely and safer investments (as well as divestments) for our clients. Dependable, usable pre-emptive intelligence is vital. One of the services we provide in this area is discreet screening of candidates for mid to senior executive management positions, seeking out qualitative cross-referenced information and investigating any causes for concern.

Through our research of subcontractor service providers, we enable our clients to perform rapid checks on third party individuals with potential access to sensitive data anywhere in the world. This is typically seen in IT, site security, cleaning services or R&D subcontracting arrangements at medium to large companies with international reach. Subcontractor integrity screening provides a first level of protection against fraudsters or penetration attempts by foreign governments with diverging interests. GovRiskCo pre-employment screening services are useful for our clients to confirm the credentials of prospective or existing top and middle management employees. In high technology sectors, our research has helped substantiate share price manipulation issues.

The GovRiskCo risk analysis team also provides comprehensive IT system safety audits, both on site and remotely. Our remit often means running practical awareness training seminars on business risks and risk prevention at an international level. Dismantling parallel trade in wholesale and retail operations.

Many multinational corporations operate in high risk environments. This requires practical preventive measures in place as well as proven contingency plans during acute crisis response situations when stress levels have to be kept to a minimum.

Furthermore, there is the ever-increasing risk of proprietary information loss through inadequate vigilance. Expert solutions are needed to make comprehensive risk assessments and conduct loss prevention surveys to establish appropriate levels of security throughout the corporation.

Our security specialists provide the necessary professional support in these areas. GovRiskCo can act as a provider of crisis prevention & management services. This entails providing personal awareness training and close protection / surveillance teams for potentially vulnerable individuals and their relatives around the world. Most importantly, proper crisis management and security services means assigning the right specialists to perform the job, which you can expect from GovRiskCo, including recommending the most capable specialists in kidnap & ransom, crisis communications, personal security, forensic expertise and insurance on an ad hoc basis. Providing efficient vital protection for executives and their relatives

Either to seize new opportunities or to face greater challenges and always more demanding and volatile new regulations and policies, our clients know that they can rely upon GovRiskCo to accompany the setting up or the strengthening of governance, risk management and compliance policies and measures. What is GRC:

• Governance: The process of interactions through the laws, norms, or language of a management organization (e.g.: Board of Directors, etc.) and audit committees.
• Risk Management: The prediction and the management of risks that could stop an organization to achieve its objectives.
• Compliance: To comply with government policies, company procedures, laws, and regulations.

Although, it is obvious that internal audit and risk management functions must be reinforced to change these demands and constraints into competitive advantages, drivers for growth and differentiation, GovRiskCo accompany you to:

• Analyse environnements, expectations and regulations.
• Evaluate risks and define a management policy to face these challenges.
• Define guidelines of the governance and accompany the Board of Directors and Audit Committee to face financial, regulatory, and legal expectations.
• Validate the company’s compliance to existing regulations (one-time analysis or permanent monitoring).
• Internal control: Setting up of evaluation of the internal audit.
• Conception of control tests and internal controls to insure the efficiency of existing measures.

When one of our clients has suffered a financial, commercial or IT fraud, or if he is engaged into a judicial case, or face a regulatory inquest, GovRiskCo intervene in emergency to:

• Confirm or infirm fraud suspicions.
• Reassemble and demonstrate the fraud mechanism (allowing when possible, the occurring of an insured event when the company has subscribed a fraud insurance).
• Identify protagonists involved into the fraud.
• Collect proofs in contemplation of legal proceedings.
• Quantify losses and evaluate financial impact.
• Propose correcting measures and accompany their implementations.

Cybercrime is no longer the worry of a few great corporations, but an economical reality that any organization large or small or is facing. Would t be upstream or after an incident when a client has suffered an attack, GovRiskCo set up a ‘task force’ to:

• Audit existing protection measures.
• Define protection strategy and preventive plans (Access point physical security, data storage, backup and recovery procedures, antivirus systems and network intrusion detection, firewalls, software patch management, passwords management, sensitive data and removable hardware encryption, third party safeguarding policy for those who have access to data and internal networks, etc.).
• Forensic Engineering.
• Penetration tests (‘Pentests’).