The proprietary, sensitive, and confidential information that a company owns are its core assets - or "crown jewels." Business intellectual properties, such as strategies, marketing, pricing, R & D, executive information, and human resources data are integral to your company's current and future growth.

Protecting the myriad of company intellectual properties is critical for both current and future operations. Virtually all public companies, as well as private firms, have a fiduciary responsibility to protect this information for their investors and supporters. This means preserving the integrity of current assets, shielding critical financial data, and safeguarding strategic documents and media.

Delegating, assigning, and properly administrating personnel access levels and passwords, document shredding and disposal, and the securing of file cabinets and desks are just part of the process. Companies must have proactive procedures in place to detect, respond to, and thwart deliberate or accidental disclosure of sensitive data.

Safeguarding your company's core assets must address your specific needs while employing proven, state-of-the-art security practices. Merit Security can provide such a security plan devised from our expertise and our experience working with today's world-class organizations.

Merit Expertise will provide:

• Assessing current operations, determining levels of vulnerability based on threat, dollar exposure, and identification and sources of potential threats
• Prioritization of changes to meet standards of the industry
• Detecting and isolating Windows of Vulnerability

• Identifying weaknesses in other areas, including (but not limited to) access controls, storage and destruction of proprietary information, chain-of-custody, travel, and meetings

• Performing a TSCM sweep to search for existence of eavesdropping evidence or a past attempt
• Auditing of other areas where information could be compromised or breached