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For Your Eyes Only: Tips for Protecting Your Export Sales

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For Your Eyes Only: Tips for Protecting Your Export Sales

A Corporate Espionage Seminar 

In the Spring of 2010, the New York U.S. Export Assistance Centers half-day seminar focused on how to protect your exports abroad.   

Why You Should Attend

  • The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that American businesses lose $250 billion to copyright piracy and intellectual property theft annually.
  • This loss can cause smaller entities to cease to exist, and whole sectors of the economy can weaken and fall behind in the global marketplace.
  • You will learn about protecting your organization, exports and yourself from those interested in stealing your trade secrets.
  • You will also gain insights into minimizing exposure, liability, and risk for you and your organization.

Topics Include:

  • Latest trends in Corporate Espionage with an intelligence update and industry developments.
  • Espionage methods, targets, actors, indigenous scams, travel security, identifying threats and countermeasures.
  • Protecting your products, equipment, computers, portable devices and company secrets overseas.
  • Trends in electronic crimes.
  • Minimizing victims' exposure and reporting problems with cyber crime. 
  • Modern-day case studies.
  • Export Control/Enforcement/Due Dilligence.
  • Reverse engineering protection.
  • Vetting your international partners.
  • How to assure hired foreign nationals do not work for competitors. 

Previous Speakers for the Seminar Included:

  • Ray Mislock, Chief of Global Security, Dupont
  • Brian Whisler, Of Counsel, Baker & McKenzie LLP 
  • Sidney Simon, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Industry & Security
  • David Marziliano, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Christopher Medeiros, Senior Coordinator for the Americas, East Asia and Major Events, U.S. Department of State
  • Robert Novy, Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Electronic Crimes Task Force, U.S. Secret Service

Seminar Fee: $60 per person

Registration Deadline:  More Information for the Spring Seminar to Come!
DRAFT AGENDA

8:00am-8:30am
Registration and continental breakfast

8:30am-8:35am
Welcoming

8:35 - 9:15am
Brian Whisler, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Topic:  Overview of corporate espionage and relationship between government and private sector reporting, intelligence update, and recent developments

9:15am -11:30am
Government Resource Panel

Topic:   Traditional and Favorite Methods, Targets, Actors, Indigenous Scams, Travel Security, Identifying Threat and Countermeasures

Topic:  Trends in electronic crimes

Topic:  FBI Case Study

Topic:  Export Control/ Enforcement/Due Diligence

11:30am-11:45am
Break

11:45-12:30pm
Topic:  Securing our Future

12:30pm
Closing

For additional information, please contact:

Carmela Mammas
U.S. Commercial Service
New York Export Assistance Center
Tel: 212-809-2676
Email: Carmela.Mammas@mail.doc.gov

Or

Ryan Hollowell
U.S. Commercial Service
New York Export Assistance Center
Tel: 212-809-2678
Email: Ryan.Hollowell@.mail.doc.gov