Selected Risk Consulting and Security Assignments

Joel Edward Gross has conducted risk analysis/security assessments, established secure environments and resolved security issues in sometimes high-risk, hostile situations involving predators and predatory conduct throughout the U.S., Canada, Spain, Portugal, Monaco, Nice, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Mexico, Latin America, Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Israel, the Pacific Rim, and China.

Assignments include landmark structures, high-rise office buildings, corporate campuses, large corporate and private executive estates and residences, private gated communities and compounds, "upscale" shopping centers, apartment complexes, manufacturing facilities, research & development facilities, and foreign embassies and their ambassadorial residences.

He is retained to resolve sensitive critical issues of risk, and real and potential threats related to counter-terrorism, information security, espionage, intelligence and competitive intelligence operations, computer and telecommunications security, executive protection, technical surveillance countermeasures, kidnapping, assassination, and management training.

Case Studies:

• International Software Development Corporation: risk assessment and vulnerability analysis
  
  
• International Telecommunications Firm: identification and analysis of areas of vulnerability
  
  
• Chairman, International Banking Institution: threat and vulnerability assessments, risk analysis, and technical assistance
  
  
• International Manufacturer of extremely high-value goods: risk analysis of high-exposure manufacturing-distribution locations
  
  
• Foreign Electronics Manufacturer: advisory services to senior management regarding Southeast Asia investment
  
  
• President Regional Telecommunications Firm: risk analysis of business offices and executive residence to identify areas of possible exposure to business information loss
  
  
• President, International Telecommunications Corporation: executive security
  
  
• U.S. Systems Integrator: information security operations
  
  
• Copyright and Patent Infringement Negotiations: trusted third party, intellectual property dispute Special Master
  
  
• Chairman, International foreign Non-Profit Organization: resolved security issues surrounding kidnapping and payment of $20 million ransom
  
  
• International Genetic Research Firm: identifying and resolving information security issues, trade secret information, vulnerability issues in laboratories
  
  
• International Transportation Company: information security issues
  
  
• Foreign Multinational (German) Transportation Corporation: risk analysis and organization wide security compliance audit
  
  
• Foreign (Swiss) Currency and High Value Assets Distribution and Storage Corporation: evaluating security policies, procedures, systems and programs
  
  
• International Genetics Research Company: competitor espionage
  
  
• Latin American Embassy and its Ambassador to the United States: international political information protection
  
  
• Mexican Financial Institution: currency transfer issues to protect $65 billion in liquid and electronic assets
  
  
• Latin American political families: personal protection
  
  
• International Insurance Company: protection of business information during bankruptcy
  
  
• Large Domestic Insurance Firm: identify areas of vulnerability to information loss during divestiture and termination of executives
  
  
• Large Regional News Media Company: executive family security
  
  
• International Financial Firm: protection of information during takeover of large corporation
  
  
• European National Banking System: strategic plan for operation of a secure national electronic funds transfer and pubic key infrastructure system