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Maximize a rewards program by safeguarding your event

Posted in: Blog by admin on June 3, 2011 | No Comments

Acclaimed Professionals can maximize your company’s reward program by providing professional personnel for Incentive Trips and Excursions. We will establish proper communication with local law enforcement and security personnel to assist in safeguarding your event. Our experienced Emergency Medical and Certified First Responders can ensure mobile on-site emergency aid is ready and available to maximize your employees and clients overall experience and memories.

From Coordination with Transportation and knowledge of Emergency Facilities, to mobile Medical and First Aid during activities and adventures, let Acclaimed Professionals support your successes!

How we’re prepared to meet your goals

Posted in: Blog by dave on February 13, 2011 | No Comments

It is important that personnel responsible for security operations at special events are familiar with risk assessment methods, including adequate training in identifying vulnerabilities and threats, improving physical protection systems, enhancing emergency response and recovery operations and building multi-agency and evacuation capabilities.

Lost laptops cost billions

Posted in: Blog by dave on January 15, 2011 | No Comments

Information Week (originally published: 12/02/10)

Businesses are losing billions of dollars every year as a result of stolen and misplaced laptops, according to a new Ponemon Institute sponsored by Intel. The 329 organizations queried lost more than 86,000 machines over the course of 12 months, the study determined. Ponemon Institute chairman Larry Ponemon says that these findings, coupled with the results of a 2009 survey that put the average cost of lost laptop information at $49,246, means that the average cost of such losses to the organizations is roughly $2.1 billion, or $6.4 million each. “A lot of organizations are incompetent at protecting information assets,” Ponemon says. He notes that the value of the lost machine itself represented only a small percentage of the estimated cost. Most of the loss is linked to the value of intellectual property on these machines and the fees associated with data breaches and mandatory notification requirements. The study found that laptops have a 5 percent to 10 percent chance of being stolen or misplaced over three years, while just 5 percent of lost laptops are ever recovered. Forty-six percent of laptops were reported to contain sensitive information, yet only 30 percent had disc-based encryption, 29 percent had been imaged for backup, and a mere 10 percent included anti-theft features, the study found. Places where laptops were most likely to be stolen or misplaced include off-site locations, while traveling, and within the workplace, while 12 percent of the time the site of the loss is unknown.