March 1st, 2012
Sanctions and Compliance, A Cautionary Tale…
On February 24, 2012, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced the following Civil Money Penalty Information: “Online Micro, LLC Settles Iran Export Apparent Violations: Online Micro, [...]
March 1st, 2012
FATF 2012 AML Recommendations
On 16 February 2012, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) , published the following public [...]
February 1st, 2012
Mining The Meaning From Data
Our modern corporations are huge consumers and warehouses of data, actually so are our small business, and our households. Never, in the history of mankind, has there been so much [...]
February 1st, 2012
Mind The Snail Mail
We seem to be very conscious of e-mail security, but are often oblivious to the security of the “snail mail” we receive at our homes and offices. Recently, in our [...]
February 1st, 2012
Very Private Meeting
One of our charges has come up with a very unique way of conducting private meetings. It is not often we learn something new from a client. Please do not [...]
February 1st, 2012
iPhone, Blackberry, Android – Security
I asked a few different experts in electronic surveillance and cell phone security which of the three most popular smart phones is the safest and which is the worst. The [...]
February 1st, 2012
How to Write a Policy Manual
In the last several seminars we have conducted, as well as clients we have visited, a consistent constant question has arisen, How to write an effective policy manual? Well the [...]
February 1st, 2012
Help Your Employees Get Through Failure
By Gail Kasper, Author and Mentor of the Top 1% Club http://www.gailkasper.com I am sure many of you, like me, have had to lend a supportive ear to an employee [...]
January 1st, 2012
Compliance Failures Promote Fraud and Blackmail
Over the last several years we have noticed an interesting development in the world of fraud. This is a bit of a follow up to a “Get out of Jail [...]