Risks and Threats
There are many and varied risks and threats to any person or business – which may strike at anytime. The threats may be from a previously unknown source or they may be well known from within your own company.
The motives could be criminal for financial gain; ethical, political or religious activists and terrorists; or simple personal vendettas and grudge’s.
The various risks and threats to you and your business include:
- Vandalism
- Arson
- Sabotage
- Protests and demonstrations
- Theft and burglary
- Embezzlement
- Intimidation and abuse
- Harassment
- Stalking
- Mugging and assault
- Armed robbery
- Kidnap and abduction
- Murder and assassination
- Fraud
- Blackmail
- Extortion
- Industrial and economic espionage
Not only can these risks and threats be physically and psychologically distressing to those people who become victims; they can also have a detrimental affect upon company running costs, personnel efficiency, loss in productivity, increase in fraud, etc – seriously damaging company profits, company reliability, destroy customer, client and investor confidence and also company/brand image.
