An investment fund examining an infrastructure opportunity in East Africa retained CRA’s team to help identify and mitigate critical risks. The team conducted a substantial intelligence gathering exercise, and provided a combination of due diligence into partners, geopolitical risk analysis, and an impact assessment of scenarios such as other partners withdrawing from the project, political regime change. The findings played a key role in the fund’s decision making.
“Bug bounty” demands: legal bane or information security boon?
A “bug bounty” request occurs when a self-described security researcher contacts a company, claiming to have discovered an information security vulnerability,...