SECURITY CONSULTING
PICA takes a fully integrated approach to securing a company’s assets, starting with its people and ending with its products or services. PICA offers a full line of technology and services to combat fraud and theft with individualized strategies and handling depending on the specific environment. PICA’s focus is always on loss prevention but provides for a swift and sure incident response which helps make its clients “hard targets” and deters wrongdoers from victimizing PICA’s clients.
PICA takes an active part in securing the supply chain and distribution channel. In a brave new world of the “Internet of Things”, PICA has become expert at working with and securing IT systems and devices with exceptional cyber-security assets and preventative strategies. It offers training to in-country and visiting personnel on how to avoid victimization and fortify systems, procedures and policies.
PICA has partners everywhere in the world that can provide state-of-the-art technology solutions from access control to high value asset protection to make its clients facilities and its people as secure as they can be in the most hostile environments. Finally, if the worst occurs, PICA has the very best legal and political assets to help clients in need and provide litigation support and mitigation of claims, anywhere in the world.
CASE STUDIES
PICA Helps International Luxury Goods Retailer Go Public
Starting with a relationship that began with brand protection, PICA worked with one of the premier luxury good retailers in the world to evaluate their operations from sourcing to retail, on five continents, and included administrative, financial and computer systems, to prepare the company for a public offering. PICA identified and documented tens-of-millions of dollars in opportunities to reduce fraud and waste, and to support the expansion into emerging markets.
Corporate Finance Officer Pleads Guilty in Payables Fraud
In an investigation of financial irregularities at a leading international freight forwarder, PICA developed evidence of wrongdoing implicating a corporate finance official which resulted in a confession and ultimate guilty plea. Additionally, the evidence PICA developed was utilized to bring a negligence claim against a leading financial institution resulting in the recovery of almost all of the converted funds.