Information Security

9 April 2025 · Articles, Brand, Confidential Information, Counterfeit, Fakes, Information Security, Innovation, Investors, Patents

IP risks, just another bump on the way to success?

It is a fact of. business life that you will hit the IP risks and bumps at some stage: These may include the following IP risks: Trademark musical chairs ! Copyright flattery (or not)? Trusted colleague as was. Reputation under threat. Information theft. Patent bullying by a big kid. Social media lock out Fakes IP […]

9 April 2025 · Articles, Information Security, Know-How, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets

Trade Secrets and How to Manage the Enemy Within.

Trade secrets are the most valuable, coveted yet risky assets within your business. Your people pose the greatest threat to your trade secrets but also offer the best defence! Most information security and trade secret programmes tend to focus their efforts in the wrong areas: The Corporate Response is to Focus in The Wrong Areas […]

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 […]

3 February 2025 · Articles, Brand, Confidential Information, Information Security, Trade secrets

Trade Secrets aren’t Bullet Proof but they are Very Good

Guilty South Korean company, Kolon admitted conspiring with two former DuPont employees between 2006 and 2009 to get access to information about how DuPont makes its Kevlar fibres. Punishment Kolon was fined $920m18-month jail sentences handed down to the former DuPont employees!Kolon was banned from manufacturing or marketing its Kevlar competing Heracron fibre for 20 […]

30 January 2025 · Confidential Information, Domain Name, Information Security, Strategy, Trade Mark, Trademark

How your people lost a $billion asset

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮 $𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁 People are your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. How can you let a $billion domain name lapse? In 2015 Google.com was bought for $12. In 2021 google.com.ar was bought for $2. These domain names are used to run billion-dollar businesses so how can these assets be ‘mistakenly […]

29 January 2025 · AI, Confidential Information, Information Security, Strategy, Trade secrets

Is your best asset also your weakest link?

Is Your Best Asset Also Your Weakest Link? We are living through the biggest transfer of corporate wealth in history. Information. Information is your most valuable asset, and your people are the guardians of that asset. Loss of sensitive information including trade secrets can destroy your business’s competitive edge and future revenue. Competitors can […]

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’ […]

19 January 2025 · Articles, Information Security, Knowledge Transfer, NDA, Partnerships, Trade secrets

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗗𝗼?

𝗟𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁! ‘We are in a partnership so it will be good’. ‘We have an NDA so we can tell them everything’. ‘Working in cafes in Scandinavia it is fine you can go […]