Protecting Assets, Legacies, and the Public
Security and risk management move at lightning speed. You need a partner that moves even faster.
Fairfax Group shields businesses and governmental organizations from the risks of today — and tomorrow — drawing from security best practices and a wealth of global investigative and risk mitigation experience.
We drive down risk for our clients, helping them protect business operations, integrity, and growth.
By leveraging our expertise, your organization can maintain a strong compliance posture, mitigating risks and promoting a culture of accountability and transparency.
Explore our services and learn more about how Fairfax Group can help you navigate the complexities of compliance and corporate governance.
Our Services
Risk Management
With an effective, future-resilient risk management plan in place, your organization can be better prepared for known and unknown risks, helping to prevent crises and limit damage if a security lapse does occur.
Our future-forward security and risk management solutions include:
- Enterprise risk management to develop comprehensive risk assessment and tailored mitigation strategies at enterprise scale
- Corporate crisis management plans that enable rapid decision-making in the face of a crisis
- Crisis communication to create a focused company response to shareholders and the public
- Counter-terrorism training that addresses modern threats to organizations in vulnerable industries and geographical areas
Compliance, Corporate Governance, and Monitoring
As a socially responsible organization, compliance is critical — both within your company or organization and for the organizations, suppliers, and vendors you partner with.
We can work with you to build policies and procedures to address:
- Enterprise risk management to develop comprehensive risk assessment and tailored mitigation strategies at enterprise scale
- High-risk global market strategies: Strategic planning and risk management for operating in high-risk markets.
- Anti-money laundering investigations: Designing and implementing AML frameworks to prevent financial crimes.
- Compliance violation investigations:Conducting thorough investigations to address and resolve compliance breaches.
Your organization’s responsibility doesn’t stop there: it also includes the way you shape the system of shareholders, board of directors, executives, C-suite, and management.
We’ll help you build and implement corporate governance programs that include:
- Enterprise risk management Comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation strategies tailored to the organization’s unique needs.
- High-risk global market strategies: Strategic planning and risk management for operating in high-risk markets.
- Regulatory compliance: Ensuring adherence to local, national, and international regulations through thorough audits and continuous monitoring.
- Corporate governance consulting: Developing frameworks for ethical corporate governance to enhance transparency and accountability.
- Corporate compliance monitoring: Continuous oversight to ensure ongoing adherence to compliance standards.
- Corporate and global compliance: Comprehensive programs to ensure compliance across all operational jurisdictions.
- Corporate social responsibility: Integrating social responsibility into corporate governance strategies.
- Corporate compliance communications: Effective communication strategies to promote compliance throughout the organization.
- Compliance violation investigations: Conducting thorough investigations to address and resolve compliance breaches.
Better still is a holistic, organization-wide approach. This type of support can protect against compliance violations at every level, from executives to vendors.
We’ll help you build and implement corporate governance programs that include:
- Recruiting compliance personnel: Sourcing and hiring skilled compliance professionals.
- Compliance auditing: Conducting regular audits to ensure adherence to compliance standards.
- Compliance-related due diligence: Performing due diligence to prevent compliance issues in mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships.
- Supplier compliance: Ensuring that suppliers and partners adhere to required compliance standards..
Business Intelligence
Modern businesses rely on data-driven business intelligence to gain a comprehensive view of their organization so they can evolve, change, adapt, and grow—and ultimately outperform the competition. This business intelligence increasingly relies not just on human sourcing but on AI and machine learning (ML) tools for collecting and analyzing data.
Our business intelligence services implement bleeding-edge technologies to offer you services that include:
- Market intelligence to provide actionable market insights for strategic decision-making
- Competitive analysis to identify threats and opportunities stemming from the competition
- Data mining and visualization to uncover and illustrate trends within your organization, another organization, or an entire industry using visualizations including histograms and graphs
- Descriptive and visual analytics that explore data through visual storytelling to uncover insights and draw conclusions within your industry
- Comprehensive reporting to keep stakeholders informed and enhance decision-making
- Benchmarking performance metrics to establish a historical performance baseline and track performance compared to the competitors
Our services provide the insights needed to stay ahead in a competitive market, ensuring your business can adapt and thrive.
Security
Today’s fast-moving threats aren’t all digital: physical security still matters, and it’s evolving quickly as well.
The Fairfax Group offers comprehensive security solutions for corporate, government organizations, and NGOs, including:
- Facility safety and security to protect employees and visitors from critical risks
- Penetration testing of your existing solutions to find security vulnerabilities and areas to address
- Security risk analysis that utilizes the three elements of risk management: identification, analysis, and control
- Special events security, including intelligence monitoring and physical security protection
- Travel security training and assistance to protect frequent-flyer executives and staff
Corporate & Government Investigations
When ethical, compliance, or regulatory concerns within an organization come to light, an independent investigation is a critical element providing credibility.
The Fairfax Group works with general counsel, the C-suite, or the board of directors to manage the following:
- Fraud investigations that use forensic accounting and investigative techniques to root out fraudulent activities
- Background investigations into employees, executives, board members and case witnesses
- Due diligence on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, representatives, distributorships, and key suppliers
- Environmental issue analysis domestically and overseas, including RPR (Recognized Environmental Professional) investigations
- Global investigations into fraud, corruption, intellectual property, theft and malfeasance
- Internal misconduct investigations including allegations of employee harassment, labor-management issues, and worker health and safety concerns
- Witness identification services to support defense or prosecution of antitrust claims
Government investigations often follow similar paths, and the Fairfax Group has significant history providing government-authorized investigation services, primarily in public corruption cases outside of the country of origin.
Crisis Management Services
Threats are varied and fast-moving, which means no organization is immune to the risk of a security crisis.
We can mitigate security and vulnerability crises with a crisis management plan that includes:
- Emergency response planning that creates detailed plans to address various emergency scenarios
- Public relations crisis management to protect and restore reputation through careful, measured communication
- Risk assessment to identify risks and vulnerabilities and prepare effective response strategies
- Response design and coordination tailored to specific crises
Implementation of the crisis management plan to mitigate impact - Evaluation, safeguarding, and future planning to assess response effectiveness and bolster responses to future crises
In response to a specific crisis, we offer:
- Crisis impact management to quickly assess the damage of the crisis and begin mitigating it early
- An incident-specific approach that takes your organization and the specific circumstances into account before planning action
- On-site incident support for critical situations, including after-incident follow-up support
Our comprehensive crisis management services ensure that your organization is prepared to handle crises effectively, minimize damage, and recover swiftly.
Cybersecurity Response
Cybersecurity breaches increase in both number and financial impact every year, and falling victim to a single attack can do significant reputational and financial harm. An attack can cost millions, disrupt operations, or even put your business’s ongoing viability at risk.
Given the stakes, you can’t afford to let cybersecurity fall by the wayside. Our comprehensive cybersecurity offerings include:
- EThreat detection and response including advanced monitoring and rapid response to cyber threats to minimize damage and protect sensitive data
- Penetration testing and vulnerability assessments to identify and address vulnerabilities in IT systems and lessen the risk of a breach
And if a breach does occur, the Fairfax Group is ready to step in, providing forensic auditing services that include:
- Court-ordered expert service to collect and analyze data from all parties involved in a breach
- Expertise on data collection regulations including EU and US federal and state privacy regulations
- Independent third-party expertise to verify data accuracy and avoid conflict of interest
- Specialized financial data analysis to support decision-making about litigation and other responses to a breach
Litigation Support & Case Management
When ethical, compliance, or regulatory concerns within an organization come to light, an independent investigation is a critical element providing credibility.
In litigation cases, our qualified multidisciplinary team steps in with:
- Counsel coordination through each stage of litigation
- Liaison services with law enforcement and other governing agencies
- Litigation strategy assistance, including parsing what is possible, realistic, legal, and ethical
- Specialized forensic services, including forensic accounting, forensic evidence examination, and digital forensics
- The New York Times test: Would you and your legal team feel justified in your actions if the details of the case went national?
- Witness location services, including preliminary interviews to screen potential witnesses for the benefit of the case
Our expert team also provides competitive and business intelligence services to inform your investigation.
Anti-Money Laundering
Financial institutions must go to great lengths to “know your customer” (KYC) — a data collection standard that’s meant to prevent money laundering.
We’ll analyze and advise your current money laundering compliance program or build a new one that includes services such as:
- AML compliance programs designed and implemented to prevent financial crimes
- Transaction monitoring on a continuous basis to detect suspicious activities
- KYC due diligence to reduce risk and eliminate opportunities for fraud
- Procedure development with comprehensive compliance guidelines and staff training to enforce procedures
- Procedure testing to validate that existing controls and protections meet standards
- Strategy development to establish good standing with the business community and local or federal government
- System audits including recommendations of system upgrades or implementation
By leveraging our expertise, you can ensure that your institution meets regulatory requirements and mitigates the risk of financial crimes effectively.
Intellectual Property Protection
Trade secrets and intellectual property give your organization its competitive edge, and you should protect them accordingly. That means preventing trade secret theft and expertly investigating instances of suspected or alleged theft.
We protect confidential intelligence with:
- IP surveillance to identify counterfeit products and UP infringements in the marketplace
- Legal enforcement in protecting intellectual property rights
- Employee training on best practices for handling and protecting company intellectual property
- Independent investigation for usable evidence in case of a suspected breach of rights
- Liaison with authorities including government parties
- Policy and procedure audits that assess vulnerabilities organization-wide, including third-party contractual obligations with vendors and suppliers
- Strategies to reduce intellectual property theft by addressing the flow of data to unauthorized parties
Advanced Data Analytics & AI Integration
Today’s organizations live and die by data. Data gives organizations the ability to gain strategic insights and stay competitive—but to do so, your organization must harness the power of its data.
Advanced data analytics and AI integration enable businesses to make informed decisions by predicting trends and visualizing complex data. Fairfax Group offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to use data both to create strategic advantages and to communicate with clarity and precision.
- Predictive Analytics involve using AI to analyze data and predict future trends and behaviors, helping businesses make proactive and strategic decisions
- Data Visualization transforms complex data sets into easily understandable visual formats, making it easier for stakeholders to grasp insights and take appropriate and timely action.
- Network Analysis to map out business and personal relationships between entities for deeper investigative insights.
With over 40 years of experience and a vast network of experts, Fairfax Group understands the importance of harnessing advanced data analytics and AI solutions. Our capabilities ensure that your organization can leverage data effectively, making informed decisions that drive strategic growth.
IoT & Cloud Security
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and cloud computing has introduced new security challenges. Ensuring the security of these technologies is crucial to protect sensitive data and maintain operational integrity.
We address these challenges with specialized IoT and cloud security solutions:
- IoT security solutions protect Internet of Things devices from cyber threats by implementing robust security measures and continuous monitoring
- Cloud security ensures the security of data stored in the cloud through advanced encryption techniques and vigilant monitoring to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches
Leveraging our extensive expertise and decades of industry experience, Fairfax Group provides unparalleled IoT and cloud security solutions. Our comprehensive approach ensures that your digital assets are protected, allowing your organization to operate securely in an interconnected world.
Regulatory Technology Solutions
Regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of modern business, where meeting ever-evolving regulations requires efficient and effective solutions. Fairfax Group’s regulatory technology solutions streamline compliance processes, reduce risks, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
- Regulatory technology uses innovative technology to ensure compliance with local, national, and international regulations, enhancing efficiency and reducing the burden of manual compliance efforts
- Automated reporting streamlines regulatory reporting processes using AI to ensure accurate and timely submissions, minimizing the risk of non-compliance and associated penalties
Fairfax Group’s deep expertise and dedication to excellence make us the best option for delivering effective regulatory technology solutions. Our proven track record and our commitment to innovation and integrity ensure that your organization remains compliant and competitive. Explore our services to learn more about how we can help you navigate complex regulatory requirements with confidence and ease.