Top 10 - Overseas Security Threats for the U.S. Private Sector

摘要

U.S. State Department sees radicalism, corruption, intellectual property theft, among growing dangers. Increased political radicalism, rising crime and corruption, pirating of intellectual property, and military conflict are among the top security challenges confronting U.S. businesses operating abroad, according to a year-end analysis by the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). The Overseas Security Advisory Council (www. osac.gov) was established in 1985 as a Federal Advisory Committee with a U.S. Government Charter to promote security cooperation between the U.S. Department of State and American business and private sector interests worldwide. "Two thousand six was a defining year for the American private sector abroad," said Doug Allison, a Special Agent with the Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security and Executive Director of OSAC. "The threats from traditional sources - such as crime, terrorism and political instability, as well as from non-traditional, non-routine sources - such as acts of nature and potential global pandemics, have demonstrated that firms must incorporate security and risk management into their core business operations if they are to overcome these threats."