Regardless of your products, your company most likely sources raw materials, parts, finished goods or packaging from foreign business partners. Leveraging business partners, as opposed to building their own foreign production capabilities, allows companies to shift suppliers to low-cost regions without worrying about their foreign investments. Every year the global supply chain and the flow of international goods continues to increase.
Thomas Tidiks is the first non-North American president of the CSO Roundtable Advisory Board, and he is the Group Chief Security Officer at Zurich Insurance in Switzerland.
In a fiercely competitive international business landscape, corporations race to increase profits by taking advantage of lower labor, manufacturing and distribution costs that only emerging markets can offer.
Fifty-three Times employees' computers were hacked after the paper launched an investigation into the vast wealth of some of China's most influential families.
After the assault and hostage situation in an Algerian natural gas complex left several workers dead, energy companies are reevaluating their stance on international security requirements.
Following a brutal school stabbing, Chinese schools are being ordered to hire trained security officers, despite some ambiguity in addressing funding concerns.
As managers and leaders in the security field, our first and most sacred responsibility is, of course, to provide for the safety of the people who fall within our areas of responsibility. As recent world events, from political unrest to natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, ash clouds and other events have shown, the unexpected can always present us with challenges in fulfilling our Duty of Care to our international travelers, expatriates and their dependents.