Cyber Security

10 February 2025 · AI, Confidential Information, Contracts, Cyber Security, Information Security, Innovation, Know-How, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets

Information Flows to The Highest Bidder. How About Yours?

A US Federal Reserve official leaked trade secrets while being paid US$450,000 to ‘teach’ at a Chinese university. This is the allegation by US prosecutors. John Rogers shared the information with Chinese intelligence officers who posed as graduate students from a Chinese university. The secret information was from the Federal Reserve’s powerful interest rate-setting committee […]

24 January 2025 · Brand, Counterfeit, Cyber Security, Information Security, Trade Mark, Trademark

You’re Authentic? Really? Why No Registered Trademark?

Can you be authentic without a registered trademark? Not with Google, or Outlook, or Outlook, or Microsoft, or Amazon, or MailChimp……….etc. The blue tick (or check mark) is being applied beyond social media, as proof of authenticity, but to get the blue tick you need to have a trademark registered with the an approved intellectual […]

24 January 2025 · AI, Articles, Cyber Security, Information Security, Trade secrets

AI Will Release Your Trade Secrets Like A Flood

AI will take your data and make sense of it, even before you have – ‘Minority Report’ vibes here! A good investment analyst a few years back was trying to do the same thing, drawing inference from unstructured data, a bit like ‘the CEO of one company seen visiting the lawyers of a competitor company’ […]

28 November 2024 · Articles, Confidential Information, Cyber Security, Innovation, Investors, IP Audit, IP Value, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets

How Do You Prefer Your Secrets? Raided or Traded?

The most valuable IP in your business is highly likely to be your trade secrets. A stark reality faces you and that is if you are not actively managing these assets they are probably flooding out of your business with the loss of the associated value and competitive edge. Trade secrets are the fastest growing […]

3 September 2024 · Articles, Cyber Security, Partnerships, Tech Transfer

Do Your Customers Treat Your Information and Trade Secrets With Care?

Was a cyber security weak spot for the US Department of Defence one of their suppliers?! Yes, they signed the NDA and had a long standing contract. But did they have the same processes and culture? The US government just sued Georgia Tech University for not using anti virus software despite signing US Department of […]

22 August 2024 · Articles, Cyber Security, Trade secrets

Insider Robbers Know Your Blind Spots Better Than You.

Most Bank Robberies Are Insider Jobs Most Trade Secret Robberies Are Insider Jobs. Trade Secrets Are Hidden In Plain Sight. What Are Your Trade Secret Blind Spots? Insiders know what your valuable code is and how to access it. They know how to copy the customer list with pricing and contract details. They know about […]

28 February 2024 · Articles, Cyber Security, Trade secrets

What are you really protecting with cyber security?

What does your cyber security programme defend? The answer is stuff! Meaning all the valuable and critical data and processes, needed to run the business. If you break this down you identify a series of confidential and sensitive information that you would not like your competitors to get hold of, because it would provide them […]