https://falconeinternational.com/insights/ Analysis, case studies and the Book of the Month from Falcone International. en-us Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-key-man-clark-louch/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-key-man-clark-louch/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of The Key Man by Simon Clark and Will Louch: Arif Naqvi, the Abraaj collapse, and how a persuasive story stood in for investor due diligence. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-defence-of-the-realm-andrew/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-defence-of-the-realm-andrew/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Christopher Andrew's authorized centenary history of MI5, and what a century of counterespionage shows about oversight, institutional learning and judgment. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/introduction-to-corporate-and-white-collar-crime-dimarino-roberson/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/introduction-to-corporate-and-white-collar-crime-dimarino-roberson/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month An introductory survey of white-collar crime - why it happens, the statutes that reach it, and what that implies for how you document decisions. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/military-intelligence-blunders-hughes-wilson/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/military-intelligence-blunders-hughes-wilson/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Review of Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups by John Hughes-Wilson: why warnings from Barbarossa to Iraq failed after they were collected. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/spycraft-akkerman-langman/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/spycraft-akkerman-langman/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman on early modern tradecraft - ciphers, invisible inks, seals and locks - and what the countermeasure cycle teaches risk teams. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/why-a-pause-in-fcpa-enforcement-did-not-reduce-the-exposure/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/why-a-pause-in-fcpa-enforcement-did-not-reduce-the-exposure/ Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight Enforcement policy changed in February 2025 and changed again in June. The statute, the limitation period and every other jurisdiction did not. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/international-handbook-of-white-collar-crime-pontell-geis/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/international-handbook-of-white-collar-crime-pontell-geis/ Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Pontell and Geis on how white-collar crime is defined, missed and under-punished across jurisdictions, and what that means for assessing your own exposure. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-the-horizon-inquiry-says-about-relying-on-your-own-systems/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-the-horizon-inquiry-says-about-relying-on-your-own-systems/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight More than 900 people were prosecuted on the output of a system nobody outside the organization had independently tested. Data is not evidence until someone checks it. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/billion-dollar-whale-wright-hope/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/billion-dollar-whale-wright-hope/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope: Jho Low, 1MDB, and the gatekeepers who took comfort from each other’s approval. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/verifying-that-a-remote-hire-is-who-the-file-says-they-are/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/verifying-that-a-remote-hire-is-who-the-file-says-they-are/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight A security awareness company hired a North Korean operative who passed video interviews and background checks. The documents were consistent; the person was not real. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/money-laundering-and-illicit-financial-flows-cassara/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/money-laundering-and-illicit-financial-flows-cassara/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Review of John Cassara’s Money Laundering and Illicit Financial Flows: trade-based laundering, hawala, and why wire-transfer-focused AML misses most of it. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/why-tariffs-belong-on-the-political-risk-register-not-the-cost-line/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/why-tariffs-belong-on-the-political-risk-register-not-the-cost-line/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight Procurement can price a tariff. It cannot tell you how likely the next one is, which is the number that decides whether you move anything. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/in-the-shadows-bergman/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/in-the-shadows-bergman/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month In the Shadows recounts how Americans held abroad came home through channels no government admits to — and why a deniable back channel matters commercially. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/a-year-of-dora-and-the-dependency-most-firms-still-cannot-map/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/a-year-of-dora-and-the-dependency-most-firms-still-cannot-map/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight A supplier list is not a dependency map. The question is not who you pay, but what stops if they stop. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/team-of-rivals-goodwin/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/team-of-rivals-goodwin/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: how Lincoln ran a cabinet of rivals, and why structural dissent works as a control for senior teams. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-the-two-year-delay-to-eu-sustainability-reporting-does-not-change/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-the-two-year-delay-to-eu-sustainability-reporting-does-not-change/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight The stop-the-clock directive moved the reporting deadlines. It did not move the claims already published, which is what a regulator or a claimant reads first. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-cheating-culture-callahan/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-cheating-culture-callahan/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month David Callahan argues misconduct follows incentives, not character. A structural read on why rules without enforcement fail inside organizations. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-the-largest-crypto-theft-on-record-shows-about-asset-recovery/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-the-largest-crypto-theft-on-record-shows-about-asset-recovery/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight In February 2025 roughly $1.5 billion left a single exchange in one transaction. The tracing was straightforward; the recovery was the hard part. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/countdown-to-zero-day-zetter/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/countdown-to-zero-day-zetter/ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of Kim Zetter’s Countdown to Zero Day: how Stuxnet crossed an air gap to damage Iran’s centrifuges, and the lessons for operational technology. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/how-attackers-walked-into-three-uk-retailers-through-the-service-desk/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/how-attackers-walked-into-three-uk-retailers-through-the-service-desk/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight In April and May 2025 attackers reached Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods without exploiting a vulnerability. The way in was a phone call. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-secret-sentry-aid/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-secret-sentry-aid/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Matthew Aid's documentary history of the NSA shows why collection outruns comprehension - and what that means for monitoring, screening and blind spots. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/failure-to-prevent-fraud-your-procedures-are-now-the-defense/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/failure-to-prevent-fraud-your-procedures-are-now-the-defense/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight The UK's failure to prevent fraud offense came into force on 1 September 2025. The only defense is procedures you can show you already had. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/duty-gates/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/duty-gates/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Robert Gates on running the Pentagon through two wars: institutional resistance to change, assurance that never reached him, and the human cost. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-irregulars-conant/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-irregulars-conant/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Jennet Conant on Roald Dahl and Britain's wartime influence campaign in Washington: a study in agents of influence, access and unwitting sources. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/in-my-time-cheney/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/in-my-time-cheney/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Dick Cheney's memoir read as a primary source: decision-making under uncertainty, executive power, and the institutions a crisis leaves behind. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/a-death-in-malta-caruana-galizia/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/a-death-in-malta-caruana-galizia/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Paul Caruana Galizia's account of his mother's assassination is also a study of how an EU member state's institutions were hollowed out in plain sight. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-new-world-disorder-neumann/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-new-world-disorder-neumann/ Thu, 01 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Peter Neumann argues the West squandered its advantage through naivete and arrogance. A sober read for organizations carrying cross-border political risk. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/conflict-petraeus-roberts/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/conflict-petraeus-roberts/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Petraeus and Roberts trace warfare from 1945 to Ukraine and show how leaders misread conflicts at the outset, and why adaptation decides outcomes. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/lying-cheating-and-stealing-green/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/lying-cheating-and-stealing-green/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Stuart Green's moral theory of white-collar crime gives you the vocabulary for why conduct can be permitted and still seriously wrong. Legal is a floor. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/black-ops-prado/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/black-ops-prado/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Ric Prado spent 24 years in the CIA's paramilitary arm. Black Ops is a practitioner's account of vetting, contingency and compartmentation under real risk. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/how-to-steal-a-lot-of-money-legally-siedle/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/how-to-steal-a-lot-of-money-legally-siedle/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Ted Siedle's forensic method for fund diligence: layered fees, undisclosed side letters, conflicted advisers, and why a missing document is evidence. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/wer-hat-angst-vorm-bnd-schindler/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/wer-hat-angst-vorm-bnd-schindler/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Germany's former BND chief could not publish his memoir as planned. What he wrote instead argues regulation turned an intelligence service into a bureaucracy. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/how-spies-think-omand/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/how-spies-think-omand/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of How Spies Think by Sir David Omand: the four-part analytic model, Bayesian updating and how deception is built, applied to risk decisions. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/cyberwar-gaycken/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/cyberwar-gaycken/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Sandro Gaycken's Cyberwar volumes argue Europe's real cyber exposure is patient industrial espionage, not disruption — and why the US literature misses it. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-american-black-chamber-yardley/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-american-black-chamber-yardley/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month In 1931 a dismissed US codebreaker published what America had been reading. The American Black Chamber is the founding case study in insider disclosure. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-assault-on-intelligence-hayden/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-assault-on-intelligence-hayden/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Michael Hayden's 2018 book reviewed: what happens when a well-sourced finding meets a recipient who does not want it, and why more evidence makes it worse. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-gift-of-fear-de-becker/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-gift-of-fear-de-becker/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear: pre-incident indicators, forced teaming and the unsolicited promise, read for due diligence and security. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-official-cia-manual-of-trickery-and-deception-melton-wallace/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-official-cia-manual-of-trickery-and-deception-melton-wallace/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Summary of The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by Melton and Wallace, and why magician John Mulholland’s methods explain social engineering. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/reputation-matters-coad/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/reputation-matters-coad/ Wed, 01 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Media lawyer Jonathan Coad on why reputational damage is usually self-inflicted — when to sue, when to stay silent, and what to prepare before an attack. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/crisis-of-conscience-mueller/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/crisis-of-conscience-mueller/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Tom Mueller on why fraud is nearly always known internally first — and why organizations manage the reporter instead of the report. What boards should check. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/dark-territory-kaplan/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/dark-territory-kaplan/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Fred Kaplan traces three decades of cyber warfare and finds the threat was flagged early, then filed. What that pattern means for your own risk reporting. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/money-laundering-madinger/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/money-laundering-madinger/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Madinger's manual for investigators, reviewed: placement, layering and integration, trade-based laundering, and the net worth method for unexplained wealth. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/dirty-dealing-lilley/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/dirty-dealing-lilley/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Peter Lilley's Dirty Dealing reads laundering as an industry — jurisdictions, enablers, typologies — and teaches you to read a corporate structure for intent. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-cuckoos-egg-stoll/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-cuckoos-egg-stoll/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Summary of Clifford Stoll’s The Cuckoo’s Egg: how a 75-cent accounting discrepancy at Berkeley led to a KGB-linked hacker, and the method it still teaches. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/people-hacker-radcliffe/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/people-hacker-radcliffe/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month In People Hacker, Jenny Radcliffe describes three decades of authorized break-ins: how pretext beats barriers, and how to train staff to verify. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/never-split-the-difference-voss-raz/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/never-split-the-difference-voss-raz/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz: mirroring, labeling, calibrated questions, and how to spot them being used on you. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/on-intelligence-hughes-wilson/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/on-intelligence-hughes-wilson/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Review of On Intelligence by Colonel John Hughes-Wilson: espionage history built around the intelligence cycle, and why failures cluster at dissemination. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/weekend-read/braving-the-economic-storm-adapting-risk-and-resilience-management-to-recession-proof-a-business/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/weekend-read/braving-the-economic-storm-adapting-risk-and-resilience-management-to-recession-proof-a-business/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:00:00 +0000 Weekend Read An economic storm poses risks, but businesses can recession-proof operations with risk and resilience management. Learn to navigate these looming downturns. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/glass-houses-brenner/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/glass-houses-brenner/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A former NSA inspector general and head of US counterintelligence on why cyber exposure is structural rather than a failure of controls. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-is-counterparty-risk-and-how-to-manage-it-effectively/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/what-is-counterparty-risk-and-how-to-manage-it-effectively/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000 Business Insight Counterparty risk is the exposure you take on from the people you transact with. It rarely announces itself, and it is usually priced at zero until it is not. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/in-the-news/forbes-dont-get-hacked-the-increased-risk-of-cyber-threats-and-how-family-offices-can-protect-themselves/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/in-the-news/forbes-dont-get-hacked-the-increased-risk-of-cyber-threats-and-how-family-offices-can-protect-themselves/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:12:36 +0000 In the News Falcone International Founder recently shared his expert insight in a Forbes article about cyber-threats and how family offices can protect themselves against them. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-art-of-intelligence-crumpton/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/the-art-of-intelligence-crumpton/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month A summary of Henry Crumpton’s The Art of Intelligence: a CIA case officer on source validation, capability decay and the 2001 Afghanistan campaign. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/in-the-news/canadian-family-offices-beware-of-deal-killers-six-common-due-diligence-pitfalls/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/in-the-news/canadian-family-offices-beware-of-deal-killers-six-common-due-diligence-pitfalls/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0000 In the News Read about due-diligence pitfalls and deal-killers in deal-making and how to avoid potential disasters for family offices and family businesses. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/esg-marks-the-new-frontier-in-modern-risk-management-and-resilience-building/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/esg-marks-the-new-frontier-in-modern-risk-management-and-resilience-building/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0000 Business Insight ESG has moved from a reporting exercise to a due diligence question. Where the gap between stated policy and actual conduct opens, and how verification closes it. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/the-four-dimensions-of-leveraging-the-benefits-of-pre-investment-due-diligence/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/the-four-dimensions-of-leveraging-the-benefits-of-pre-investment-due-diligence/ Tue, 23 May 2023 13:20:29 +0000 Business Insight Pre-investment due diligence is the cheapest part of a deal and the first thing cut when the timeline tightens. What it covers, and what it costs to find out later. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/five-things-to-do-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-falcone-international-risk-assessment-firav2-a-guide-for-business-leaders/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/five-things-to-do-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-falcone-international-risk-assessment-firav2-a-guide-for-business-leaders/ Thu, 11 May 2023 10:00:21 +0000 Business Insight Falcone International FIRAv2 is an online risk assessment tool specifically designed for business leaders to assess risk. Learn how to use the custom score. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/spy-the-lie-houston-floyd-carnicero/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/book-of-the-month/spy-the-lie-houston-floyd-carnicero/ Mon, 01 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000 Book of the Month Spy the Lie summarized: former CIA officers Houston, Floyd and Carnicero on the five-second window, indicator clusters, and where the method stops. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/company-update/introducing-the-next-generation-of-the-falcone-international-risk-assessment-fira-v2/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/company-update/introducing-the-next-generation-of-the-falcone-international-risk-assessment-fira-v2/ Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:15:58 +0000 Company Update Falcone International unveils FIRA v2: a powerful, free risk assessment tool for businesses. Gain insights and boost resilience by answering 25 questions. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/case-study/stopping-a-money-laundering-scheme-how-we-helped-a-uk-cfo-protect-company-finances-and-reputation/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/case-study/stopping-a-money-laundering-scheme-how-we-helped-a-uk-cfo-protect-company-finances-and-reputation/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:15:56 +0000 Case Study An overseas vendor overpaid a UK manufacturer, then asked for the surplus back. How we established what it was, why returning the money was the wrong move, and the warning signs any finance team can check. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/case-study/uncovering-hidden-risks-how-our-investigation-team-helped-protect-an-investment-firm-from-a-problematic-investor/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/case-study/uncovering-hidden-risks-how-our-investigation-team-helped-protect-an-investment-firm-from-a-problematic-investor/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000 Case Study An investment firm had capital on the table and a concern about its source. How three independent lines of inquiry converged, and the questions to ask before accepting anyone's money. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/how-geopolitics-affects-businesses-of-every-size-and-what-they-can-do-about-it/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/how-geopolitics-affects-businesses-of-every-size-and-what-they-can-do-about-it/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000 Business Insight We explore the relevance of geopolitics for businesses of all sizes and the impact of trade, investment, regulations, risk management, and market opportunities. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/case-study/protecting-business-integrity-how-our-intelligence-and-investigation-team-uncovered-potential-criminal-activity-in-a-high-level-executive-candidates-past/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/case-study/protecting-business-integrity-how-our-intelligence-and-investigation-team-uncovered-potential-criminal-activity-in-a-high-level-executive-candidates-past/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:00:22 +0000 Case Study A senior candidate came recommended by the company's own executives, with five business days to check. How we re-planned the method around the deadline, what we found, and what you can establish yourself first. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/protect-your-company-and-reputation-why-background-checks-are-vital-in-the-hiring-process/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/protect-your-company-and-reputation-why-background-checks-are-vital-in-the-hiring-process/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:30:00 +0000 Business Insight Background checks protect against legal and financial liabilities and the company's reputation and promote a culture of integrity and a safe work environment. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/protecting-your-business-from-social-engineering-attacks-the-importance-of-employee-training-and-technical-controls/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/protecting-your-business-from-social-engineering-attacks-the-importance-of-employee-training-and-technical-controls/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:00:20 +0000 Business Insight The impact of social engineering attacks on businesses and learn best practices for protecting against them through employee training and technical controls. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/5-major-threats-midsize-businesses-face-and-how-to-protect-against-them/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/business-insight/5-major-threats-midsize-businesses-face-and-how-to-protect-against-them/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:30:00 +0000 Business Insight Midsize businesses face complex security threats, including cyberattacks, insider threats, physical security risks, compliance & supply chain risks. https://falconeinternational.com/insights/white-paper/practical-strategies-and-solutions-to-safeguard-private-equity-firms-and-asset-managers/ https://falconeinternational.com/insights/white-paper/practical-strategies-and-solutions-to-safeguard-private-equity-firms-and-asset-managers/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:35:28 +0000 White Paper State-of-the-art strategies to mitigate deal execution risk, enhance governance, and protect private equity firms against internal and external threats.