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Economic & Corporate Security
Provides comprehensive protection of a business against internal and external threats, focusing on preventing financial losses and protecting the company's reputation.
About the sector
Protection of financial flows: monitoring the movement of funds, preventing their misuse by employees, optimising costs and controlling receivables.
Verification and analysis (due diligence): comprehensive integrity checks of counterparties, partners and clients. Analysis of their financial stability, affiliations, litigation and bankruptcy risks.
Internal control and investigations: internal audits and internal investigations into fraud, theft, abuse and corruption schemes. Includes financial investigations and forensics.
Fraud prevention: designing and implementing a system to prevent, detect and respond to fraud, including financial statement analysis, behavioural analysis and document verification.
Personnel security: pre-employment screening, loyalty assessment, identifying conflicts of interest and hidden affiliations. Organising trade secret protection and access control.
Digital asset protection: auditing how firmly a digital token is tied to the real asset, verifying and protecting the property rights of investors and the company, reviewing tokenomics, and testing blockchain infrastructure for vulnerability to cyberattacks, price manipulation and regulatory risks.
Key threats
- Economic threats: unfair competition, dumping, industrial espionage, blackmail, fraud, hostile takeovers
- Internal (insider) threats: theft, abuse of office, corruption schemes, grey procurement schemes, asset stripping through shell companies, document forgery and information leaks
- Information threats: intentional (internal and external attacks, industrial espionage) and unintentional (user incompetence, negligence, equipment failure)
- Physical threats: theft, assault, burglary, trespass, as well as man-made and natural factors
- Legal and compliance risks: errors in contract drafting, non-compliance with legislation (including anti-corruption law), risks related to sanctions and regulatory change
- Off-chain threats, technological and infrastructure threats, smart contract vulnerabilities, legal and regulatory threats, insider trading, etc.
Typical tasks
- Ensuring the company's sustainable operation and preventing threats to its security
- Carrying out protective measures and safeguarding information resources
- Detecting and investigating fraud, theft and corruption
- Integrity checks of counterparties, partners and personnel
- Developing security policies, regulations and a responsibility matrix
- Countering industrial espionage and unfair competition
- Building a culture of security and zero tolerance for corruption within the company
- Proof of Reserves, due diligence, oversight of KYC/AML procedures, multi-sig, incident response plan
Experts in this sector
Kairat Sineyev
Compliance and sanctions risk specialist
KTZ National Company group
Aizhan Uteulina
Director
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Karazhanov Daniyar
Director of Security, Loka Logistics
Logistics company Loka
Maxim Skripnichenko
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Dmitrii Pilipenko
Founder
FENIKS Group of Companies; First Consortium for Business Economic Security
Rustam Mirzabayev
Chairman of the Executive Board
Qalqan Security Experts · Bureau-RM LLP
Samira Karabay
Editor-in-Chief of the media portal Qalqanmedia.com
Joi Consulting Group, Partner
Serik Baetov
Deputy Head of Corporate Security
Kazakhoil Aktobe LLP
Vladimir Kaykhanidi
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Yuriy Shirokikh
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Legal Officer
JOI Consulting Group
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