“The one, who possesses information, possesses the world”.
Who only was not attributed to this thesis – a billionaire Rotshield, a philosopher Francis Bacon, the prime-minister W. Churcill, even the Head of Hitlerite Abwehr admiral Kanaris. It goes without any dispute that this statement is truly genius.
Now coming from lyrics to the point we should talk about the meaning of informational security and the way of eating this dish. If to look at a question from the point of view of “Alfa-Inform” specialists, then theoretically we can see the situation as follows – the one who possesses knowledge can insure himself from troubles. So, going further we have two questions emerged:
- where can we get knowledge, namely where can we get all the necessary information?
- how can we insure ourselves, namely how can we correctly use the received information?
From our point of view these are the two issues of informational security.
Approximately in 70% of all the cases routine work in the sphere of economic security in typical Russian company comes to checking of potential counterparty (external security) or potential employee (internal security).If we take the second case we have an almost clear view of it: it is necessary to prove that a person has never had arraignments, to get all the necessary recommendations from the previous place of work and for the new-hire trial period to become sure in correctness of decision, then in the first case it is much more difficult. If for no other reason than counterparty choice is a choice of a business partner in other words is it a case of profit making. The following thesis is not always pertinent: “Nothing can so strengthen the belief in people as preliminary payment”.
The overwhelming majority of companies in the Russian market are somehow connected with commodity credits, it means that they have to make choice between two things: “do not credit – do not loose” and “do not credit – do not work”. In both cases one will have rather sad perspectives. At least everyone subconsciously has the statement “if you are informed – you are armed” in his mind, it begins with the following statement: “every little helps”. In Internet one can find black lists, in Gorbushka – databases, friends from special authorities can provide additional data. Collecting all the information one can risk to make some decision. But it is easy to become sure very soon that all that ”black lists” are out of date, in Gorbushka they sell not the databases but the bases of rubbish in most cases, pen-friends from authorities are not sometimes ready to help or have a wish to do it (just to comply with official secrets). These methods can be used in case of shipment of ten boxes of vodka from distillery “Ivanov”. And what should we do in case of a multimillion contract for building industry if this deal is fateful for the company for instance? What should we do if private enterprise “Ivanov” is a legal person of a big holding which can do a lot to succeed.
How to form a correct estimate about real situation taking into account the facts that are contradictory and alternative and at the same time true?
In this case one can not go without help of specialized informational-analytical structure, a private detective firm, it does not matter what exact firm it is but it is very important that the specialists of this firm will be able not only to collect all the materials and systematize them, not only to give a correct assessment of the situation but also to present all the collected information in that variant that is suitable for Customer’s usage according to firm economic priorities. In other words the role of informational resource in the process of choosing is a criterion of company presentability, its potential, matureness and commitment to solve even the most difficult problems.
For the period of 10 years “Alfa-Inform” informational subdivisions has cured child disease “not to recommend working with somebody to avoid shaming oneself”. At the same time we decided not to reinvent the wheel and to think out the things that do not exist in the Universe – everything has been already invented. It is of great importance and it might be very difficult to be able to use the things we have. Our specialists can not only collect the most necessary data concerning companies but can give financial and analytical conclusion as for individual companies so as for group of companies of different type. It is extremely important that this analysis is made inclusive of peculiarities of the Russian market and our post-Soviet Union business-mentality.
It is of extreme importance that we can provide instructions how to work with counterparty who is not very understandable if to look at him as a western company auditor (and mostly it is more than not understandable), but so attractive due to project significance.
We have studied a lot for the period of ten years in the market of security services. Passed decade was not a decade of toiling and poking over dark corners. It was the time of intensive work and success. We learnt how to do a right choice and we can help You in this matter!
Regards,
Director of the Group of companies
“Alfa-Inform” V.S.Shevchenko
