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The Board Ultimatum: Protect and Preserve

The Board Ultimatum: Protect and Preserve The Rising Importance of Safeguarding Trade Secrets In our digital age, it is more challenging than ever to keep a secret. Today’s trade secrets are more susceptible to the threat of being hacked or downloaded. In light of these modern challenges, BELA Strategic Partner, Baker [...]

The Importance of Cybersecurity for Trade Secret Protection

The Importance of Cybersecurity for Trade Secret Protection The rising threat of cybersecurity breaches for companies and other organizations puts trade secrets at greater risk from theft and loss. Implementing effective cybersecurity protection is therefore becoming one of the key priorities of companies whose business depends on trade secrets. Cybersecurity itself [...]

Economic Impact of Trade Secret Theft

Economic Impact of Trade Secret Theft The Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org) in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) shares their report on the assessment of the economic impact of trade secret theft. The report focuses on four issues that are critical to understanding trade secret theft and how to [...]

Protecting Intellectual Property Through Enterprise Risk Management

Protecting Intellectual Property Through Enterprise Risk Management Intellectual property – innovative product designs, brand names and logos, patented new technology and trade secrets such as formulas, processes and strategic business information – is central to the success of every company. But in today’s highly dynamic, global and connected marketplace with different [...]

Safeguarding Trade Secrets and Mitigating Threats

Safeguarding Trade Secrets and Mitigating Threats The Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org) collaborated with PwC to publish the report: Economic Impact of Trade Secret Theft: A framework for companies to safeguard trade secrets and mitigate potential threats. The full report provides insights into the estimate of trade secret theft [...]

Oshkosh Corporation | Shark Week – Employee Engagement

Oshkosh Presents "Shark Week" Themed Engagement Experience for Information Security In this article from BELA member Oshkosh Corporation, Global Ethics & Compliance Education and Engagement Manager, Kristin Manney, outlines a creative engagement approach on the topic of information security. Members of the Global Information Security team took advantage of the cultural phenomenon [...]

ADM | Supplier Expectations Policy

Supplier Expectations ADM’s suppliers are expected to do business fairly, ethically, and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations at all times. Additionally, suppliers are expected to understand and abide by ADM’s Supplier Expectation principles. The Supplier Expectations principles have been translated into more than two dozen languages and are published [...]

World’s Most Ethical Companies: A Guide to Applying in 2020

Webcast Recap | World’s Most Ethical Companies: A Guide to Applying in 2020 Replay this webcast, that featured changes to the 2020 Ethics Quotient® and World’s Most Ethical Companies® application process. Regardless of how long you have participated in the WMEC process, we encourage you to listen in. In addition to changes to [...]