Tag: Security

DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS: A PRE-INVESTIGATION NECESSITY
26 Nov
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DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS: A PRE-INVESTIGATION NECESSITY

Surmount Investigations complete extensive due diligence checks before taking on any operation for any of our services so that we have the certainty and confidence that you are exactly who you say you are and that your request for us to complete an investigation and/or surveillance has a lawful basis or a legitimate purpose.

Where possible we will always endeavour to try and meet with a prospective client face-to-face as part of our free consultation service. If this is not possible we will ask for some photographic ID to be provided to us so we have confirmation of who we are dealing with along with why. Read more about DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS: A PRE-INVESTIGATION NECESSITY …

Security Vulnerability Assessments for North-East Businesses
02 Jul
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Security Vulnerability Assessments for North-East Businesses

The Security Vulnerability Assessments we offer to businesses and organisations around Newcastle upon Tyne, North Shields, Blyth, Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, Cramlington, Hexham, Prudhoe, Ryton, Blaydon on Tyne, Gateshead, Jarrow, Hebburn, Boldon, South Shields, Washington, Sunderland, Durham and the rest of the North East are designed with one very simple goal in mind:

To provide the business owner(s) with definitive proof and reassurance that the people they employ are not putting the company at risk in some capacity and that the measures they have implemented are a strong enough deterrent. Read more about Security Vulnerability Assessments for North-East Businesses …

Newcastle City Council: Newcastle’s Biggest Threat
20 Nov
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Newcastle City Council: Newcastle’s Biggest Threat

A recent article in The Guardian by Helen Pidd exposed that Newcastle City Council had once again committed an extremely serious and worrying breach of confidential data. This was only months after their shameful leaking of highly confidential adoption data that they are currently under investigation by the ICO for.

We’re using this week’s blog post to speak specifically about our own experiences with Newcastle City Council and the concerns we’ve repeatedly raised about their data protection processes and their cavalier attitude towards confidentiality.

We’ve hoped for a long time that a sea-change would come with regards to Newcastle City Council. Now we are simply demanding that they are stripped of their right to handle confidential data in line with ICO requirements and must rebuild from the ground up as a local authority with extreme and robust external parties in place to govern them in the meantime. Read more about Newcastle City Council: Newcastle’s Biggest Threat …

Taking The Long Way Home: A Closer Look At ‘Asset Protection’.
13 Nov
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Taking The Long Way Home: A Closer Look At ‘Asset Protection’.

As part of our ‘Asset Protection Service’ we have hand-delivered high value jewellery from Newcastle to Essex, we’ve personally delivered heirlooms from the estates of the recently deceased to the homes of their next of kin, couriered important and time-sensitive confidential paperwork and, on one occasion, even a human being.

Our client had gone through an extremely bitter divorce with her ex-husband. She had been awarded sole custody of their children much to his annoyance and she was constantly living in fear that he was going to return to the North East and try and snatch her children. Read more about Taking The Long Way Home: A Closer Look At ‘Asset Protection’. …