Monitoring
EDHEC Criminal Risks Management Chair has developed a corporate criminal and terrorist risk monitoring platform.
Global Monitoring
Scope
The researchers from Edhec Criminal Risks Management Chair conduct permanent monitoring on the whole field of research:
Methodology
Data Retrieval
Edhec Criminal Risks Management Chair collects information from various sources:
- General open sources
- Various open sources
- Information network
Data processing
The information collected is used by Edhec Criminal Risks Management Chair to
- Draft reports
The first activity is the creation of texts summarising the data collected, in a 4-stage process.
- Integration of reports
The second activity consists of integrating the position papers through various supports, in a 3-stage process.
Deliverables
Every week, the monitoring of criminal and terrorist risks provides material for 4 coordinated data supports.
Updating of the criminal and terrorist risk map :
The central data support is a map that provides immediate access to two kinds of information.
Report :
All the information of interest to companies on criminal and terrorist players and criminal and terrorist activities is processed in a specific report accessible via the map.
Weekly summary:
All the reports are combined in a summary presenting the weekly updates on the players and criminal /terrorist activities of interest to business.
Database:
All of the processed data is analysed and fed into a continuously updated database.
Country Focus
Monitoring
The Country focus provides four intelligence deliverables, described above and applied to a specific area:
- Constantly updated map of criminal and terrorist risks in a given country / area
- Position papers on the criminal and terrorist activities noted
- Weekly report on criminal activities and terrorist risks affecting the country / area in question
- Note d'information / action criminelle et terroriste relevée
- Updated database
Mapping threats
The Country focus also provides a specific intelligence analysis of the threats affecting the area in question.
Modelling of the data continually generated by monitoring allows global mapping of the threat using criminal analysis software:
- Criminal actors and terrorists:names, structures, localisations, equipment, etc.
- Links: links between criminal players and terrorists, links with civil society, links with local leaders, etc.
- Activities: chronology of criminal and terrorist activities, logical links between the criminal and terrorist activities (reactions to a declaration, a wave of repression, a new local political order, etc.)
SCOPE
EDHEC Management of Criminal Risks Chair conducts studies on criminal and terrorist risks affecting a target region or country, concentrating and extending the focus of its global monitoring to cover a specific geographical area. This targeted monitoring process covers :
Criminal and terrorist organisations active in the countries in question Gangs locaux
- International and local criminal organisations
- Local gangs
- Violent communities
- Guerrilla organisations
- Terrorist organisations
Criminal and terrorist activities occurring in the countries in question
- Terrorist attacks
- Extortion
- Kidnap & ransom
- Massive theft and looting
- Hacking
- Fraud
- Counterfeiting
- Trafficking and smuggling
- Money laundering
- Terrorist funding
- Bid rigging/ privatisations
- Bid rigging/ public tendersExtorsion
About EDHEC
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