Counterfeiting of trade marks has nowadays become one of the most serious and prolific business threats. The production and sale of fake goods is worth billions and creates an issue for consumers, producers and governments. However, intellectual property offences are mostly detrimental to the trade mark owners who not only miss out on their profits but also suffer from the loss of public image, reputation and consumer trust. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) even 5% of the overall import to the EU is deemed to be of fake or counterfeit goods.
T.I.M. offers customers the three main variants of brand protection: an active, passive and a combined option, which differ in scope of undertaken investigative activities. Our Team is prepared is to both identify trademark infringements and to support law enforcement agencies in their official responses.
A common threat to businesses is posed by unreliable, hostile or fraudulent trade partners. Credibility checks are required to counteract this threat and thoroughly verify the abilities and intentions of prospective long-term trade partners as well as one-off contractors.
T.I.M. services result in security audit reports assessing the risks of future economic events involving a specific business entity as well as solutions to tighten the security around the prospective cooperation.
No organisation or business entity is immune to its internal threats. Those may originate from unauthorised employee actions, incorrect procedures or other faulty elements of an organisational structure. Such signals of irregularities or misconduct are often communicated to the business authorities at an early stage.
T.I.M. offers professional help with verification of all kinds of gross errors inside an organisation, including evidence tracking, criminal assessment of events and preparatory steps for launching law enforcement and legal action. Such actions may take various forms:
- internal investigation based on whistleblower complaint
- support of internal audit structures in obtaining and recording misconduct evidence
- devising and implementing solutions to eradicate misconduct
- car fleet monitoring and related fraud detection
Recruitment process is a vital element of every organisation's lifecycle. The diligence applied in the process often determines the subsequent success, both in relation to the business reputation as well as the internal work atmosphere. An important aspect in the recruitment process relates to the company's mission, vision and core values that contribute to the overall work culture. In the recruitment process, especially for higher positions that require managing and motivating human resources, candidates' personal values and attitude should be considered equally important as their skills, knowledge and experience.
T.I.M. offers subsidiary services that involve candidates' screening and preparation of verification questions to support the internal recruitment processes.
Evolving organisations are obliged to undertake any actions within their powers to limit the potential threats to business. Identifying weak spots as a part of corporate governance is a key preventative measure. Investigative audit is a form of control to assess whether company's activities are on target according to stakeholders' interests and whether the negative factors influencing a company's image and profitability can be eliminated.
T.I.M. takes advantage of its expert team's vast experience and knowledge of various economic threats and offers its customers a professional security audit that will discover and eliminate all the environmental loopholes that may potentially harm the interests of the overall organisation.
The variety and fast changing dynamics of a modern business determine the approach to its security matters. Thus the new types of business endeavours require a specialist set of safety tools to be implemented. An accurate example is a product or service company based on a modern user subscription model.
T.I.M. offers support for specialist businesses such as leasing, subscription or insurance companies, by i.a.:
o tracking and recovery of leased or rental vehicles
o recovery of subscription items
o insurance (fraud) investigations
Any modern business is highly susceptible to the damage resulting from unfair competition. Rapid technological advancements have enabled the detrimental use of unauthorised data access and possession of strategic business information to gain competitive advantage. Accessing confidential information and trade secrets has also increased with the use of special covert technologies like GPS transmitters and wiretaps.
To counteract this type of threat, T.I.M. will ensure the safety of running a business by i.a.: facilitating confidential meetings, securing the meeting premises and vehicles to eliminate potential surveillance devices, and the security verification of customer's internal communication channels.
Our experience, expertise and investigative skills when handling the evidence procedure as well as the criminal analysis, enable T.I.M. to support law firms with the carriers, recording and transfer of evidence for the purpose of both criminal and civil proceedings. We're open to both a continuous or an ad-hoc cooperation arrangement that can pertain either to the whole or a selected part of the proceedings.
On top of our core services for business, T.I.M. offers trainings focused on elevating the
B-secure awareness within a customer's organisation, as well as identifying and catering to the specific, current and ongoing training needs. The structure, selection of topics and the choice of expert lecturers can be tailored to the individual needs and preferences (including a training involving our fellow security specialists and counterparts from the US).
The proposed scope of training may include:
- information protection and trade secrets training
- anti-fraud training
- cybersecurity training.
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CONTACT
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mstasiak@tim2m.pl
msikorski@tim2m.pl
T.I.M. M.Stasiak, M.Sikorski s.c.
55 Jagiellońska str., 83-110 Tczew, Poland
Tax Identification Number: 593-262-72-95
+48 605489913 M. Stasiak
+48 501603488 M. Sikorski