The Risk Rating* for Tunisia is 4.0: Very Strong. With terrorism still a major regional threat (particularly to Westerners) and corruption widespread throughout the political and business sectors, the current uprisings (and the conditions which create them) render the state highly unstable and a barrier to safe and secure investment. The Arab Spring faded out

Throughout 2017, it became clear that the risks and threats to organisations and businesses and, in some cases individual company executives, is rising at a significant pace all of which is of increasing concern to those we work with and their clients. With the abilities and tools of the bad actors and criminals becoming more

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Two recent events in East Africa – one tumultuous, one expected – have highlighted that despite surface-level change, there is often much less change than expected or hoped. Political stagnation, or worse, going backwards, needs to be challenged in order for countries to reach their

As has been discussed at length elsewhere in these pieces, it is getting easier and easier to make false representation, take advantage of ‘fake news’ or simply to hope for the best and pretend to be a reputable company or individual on the assumption that nobody will bother to check otherwise. KCS is seeing a

The honey trap was a Cold War classic. A glamorous woman would approach a gentleman of interest and, through flattery and charm, harvest as much information as possible – including some very specific intelligence. Today’s modern world merely sees the trap move online. Plus ca change… It has long been established that the Internet is

In New York of the 1930s, the Brooklyn Bridge was sold twice a week. Standard going price: $55,000. The seller was one George Parker, an extraordinarily successful conman, who managed to sell the Bridge to dozens of naïve and easily manipulated Americans, in addition to running scams involving several of America’s noted landmarks. Sadly, the