Corporate Intelligence Services – KCS Group Asia Ltd

The power of outsourced intelligence analysis

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Cyber Security, Cybercrime, Due Diligence, Fraud, Intelligence, Market Entry Research / 09/2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, corporations face the formidable challenge of assessing unprecedented volumes of information. Increasingly, businesses are turning to outsourced intelligence gathering professionals to collect and make sense of vital open-source intelligence on their behalf. What are OSINT and HUMINT? While governments have a long-standing history with open-source intelligence (OSINT), the commercial world [...]

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Corporate security: the ticking time bomb of in-house provision

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Cyber Security, Due Diligence, Geopolitics, security risks / 07/2023

In-house intelligence teams are no longer fit for purpose in safeguarding their business’ reputation and activities. Most of them lack the in-country experience and access to quality intelligence that is necessary for avoiding costly and embarrassing mistakes. Law firms, accountants and other businesses that rely solely on internal intelligence departments are playing a dangerous game

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A Question of Trust

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Due Diligence, evidence, Intelligence, Investigations / 09/2022

A common refrain of our always-online, always-trending society is “Pictures or it didn’t happen” – the contention that whatever eventuality or experience the author is describing, requires evidence if it is not to be dismissed as a lie. But while people tell lies on the Internet just for likes and attention, it becomes a severe

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Public Enemies No. 1, 2, 3…

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Cyber Security, Dark Web Monitoring, Know Your Customer / 09/2021

Is the threat picture irrevocably changing? That’s the question posed by Director of MI5, Ken McCallum, in his second yearly annual threat update recently. Tellingly, ‘disruptive threats’ from states – defined by McCallum as ‘less visible’ when compared to the typical terrorist atrocities – are now put on a par with the latter – and

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The Severity of Cyber Contagion

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Cyber Attack, Cyber Security / 04/2021

Research suggests that up to 90% of Small and Medium sized companies in France, Spain, Germany and Italy are hit by a cyber-attack at least once a year. The impacts and consequences are dependent on the type of attack; however, Business Email Compromise and Ransomware attacks are thought to make up a large proportion of

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Hacked off: the rise of ransoms for ransomware

Risk Papers / Corporate Intelligence Services, Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Reputational Risk Management / 07/2019

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lntelligence failure and the lessons for the corporate sector

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Fake News, Know Your Customer, Market Entry Research, Reputational Risk Management / 10/2018

The intelligence community has had its share of failures over the years, from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 to the lack of sharing that contributed to 9/11. But while governmental agencies are always looking to learn from these failures, there are equal lessons for the corporate sector about the pitfalls that accompany

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Bambi On Ice: famous footballing fakes

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Fake News, Football, Know Your Customer, Market Entry Research, Reputational Risk Management / 07/2018

Whether you are singing le football rentre a la maison or nogomet se vraca kuci, or the original under your breath: however many years of hurt your country may have, football will be going somewhere. Whether ‘home’ or not, rather depends on your geography. But while variations on that theme will have been heard throughout

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Blue is the colour (of Russian money)

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Know Your Customer, Market Entry Research, Reputational Risk Management, Russia, Russian Business / 05/2018

Could Britain be about to take suspected Russian dirty money seriously? First was the introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders, allowing for greater exploration into the vast amounts of money certain individuals brought to the UK. Now, Roman Abramovich is leading the line of oligarchs facing visa renewal issues. It appears that the Chelsea owner will

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PEP Talk

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Know Your Customer, Market Entry Research, Politically Exposed Person (PEP), Reputational Risk Management / 03/2018

In the language of the law, a Politically Exposed Person (PEP) is someone who, by virtue of their position and influence, is either overly susceptible to bribery and corruption – or who may be facilitating it. Only now are governments starting to crack down on what is a problematic ‘grey area’ in the chains of

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