Security issues and threat management are boardroom discussions. Heads of Risk, Heads of Fraud and Information Security Chiefs within global and multi-national organizations have always had to respond to and protect the organization from threats e.g. robbery and fraud.

The scale, type and complexity of commercial risk, however, have evolved significantly in recent years. Today, security issues such as threat management, online fraud prevention and brand protection are all vital boardroom discussions. Globalization and the Internet – friend or foe?

Information security chiefs are working hard to defend their hard won brands, revenues, customer trust and corporate reputations from:

• Phishing
• Pharming
• Hacking
• Cyber- squatting
• Claimed relationships
• Intrusion incidents and click fraud

And more Serious threats include:

• Counterfeiters, parallel traders and anti-corporate extremists co-ordinating smear campaigns, product boycotts, staff intimidation and service disruption, on a global scale 
• Grey markets,which move rapidly from country to country, threatening to erode revenues, contaminate supply chains and dilute brands
• Organized gangs taking their criminal activity on-line Predict and prevent threats before they occur.

It is no longer enough for organizations to be reactive. Faced with such threats, they are realising the need to take a proactive stance to predict threats and manage risk.

Memex Commercial Information Management Technology allows them to do exactly that.