Security

ASIS 2010

Event: 12th Oct 2010 – 15th Oct 2010

There’s one event, one destination, and one place where you can focus entirely on security. And security professionals like you will come from far and wide to be there.

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Transport Security Expo and Conference

Event: 14th Sep 2010 – 15th Sep 2010

TranSec World Expo enters its 8th year with the name change to Transport Security Expo and Conference.

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Food Safety Summit

Event: 12th Apr 2010 – 14th Apr 2010

Food Safety Summit is the largest and most established food safety and defense exposition in North America on food safety, quality assurance and food security.

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What is Business Assurance?

– 12th Jan 2010

Business Assurance was developed and implemented by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. Independent research highlighted the changing needs of organisations and their views on what the certification industry should deliver. That research was the beginning of LRQA’s Business Assurance.

LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.

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How to secure international trade?

– 2nd Nov 2009 by Richard Gunawan

How do we balance the priorities between the government’s interests and organisational objectives?
With the proliferation of trade security initiatives showing no sign of abating, there is an urgent need to adopt a common architecture to manage the assurance requirements essential to the public and private sectors.

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A global perspective on supply chain risk management

– 22nd Sep 2009 by Richard Gunawan

All goods bought and sold move through supply chains of some description, making the security of goods in transit an issue that alerts everyone. While terrorism is a potential threat, theft is a clear and present menace; it erodes profitability and disrupts supply chains on an on-going basis.
The cost of theft is a major driver [...]

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Key Supply Chain Security Conference covers present logistic security problems from many different perspectives.

– 17th Jul 2009

The event succeeded in showing how important it is to follow appropriate supply chain security standards and how it can minimize the risk of potential losses. Download the presentations from the event.

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TAPA reports 50% rise in theft from facilities in 2008

– 11th Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs

This Cargo News Asia article states that The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has raised the alarm bells on theft across global supply chains. Linking the rise in crimes to the current economic climate, the TAPA report highlights the need for increased transparency across global supply chains, as well as the need for a robust supply chain security management system.

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NASA Supply Chain Under Attack

– 6th Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs

If the general public wants an example that makes ISO 28000 relevant, they need look no further than NASA. In this Houston Chronicle article, the acting administrator of NASA told the US Congress yesterday that some of the cost overruns from the space agency stem from counterfeit parts inadvertently installed on space craft.

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www.BusinessAssurance.com to interview experts at Ethical Corp Supply Chain Event

– 13th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs

Our editor will be on hand at this week’s gathering of some of the world’s leading supply chain experts and directors .

We will be blogging from the event, as well as providing our audience with some insight from some of the key topics discussed at the event.

We will be interviewing some of the supply chain world’s most influential thought leaders.

Starting with Monday, October 20th, we will be posting each day next week with either a blog post or an interview.

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