Bertrand Monnet

Cyber Threats in the Health-Care Industry

In addition to its numerous positive impacts, the development of information technologies in the health-care sector exposes it to major risks generated by actors like hackers, organized crime, and terrorist organizations. In addition, the simultaneous emergence of more and more connected devices generates specific issues and new possibilities for creating security breaches in the information systems of the various stakeholders of the sector. In this chapter, we examine these threats, analyze the motivation of criminal actors, and propose a few recommendations for preventing or dealing with cybercrimes. We consider the industry at large, encompassing actors providing medical services, clients, and also pharmaceutical firms.

The Paradox of Honesty: How Multinationals Contribute to the Spread of Organised Crime

Drug trafficking, arms trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, organ trafficking: these are the traditional activities of organised crime. Carried out by mafias, cartels and other criminal groups, these activities seem at first so remote from the concerns of multinational corporations that they are often referred to as the ‘parallel world’. Our economy is perceived by many as being split into two separate worlds: the legal and honest sphere made up of, and involving, the operations of respectable enterprises, and the parallel sphere, made up of illegal, largely underground activities.

Réflexions sur la création de valeur... pour le crime organisé

Recent research has explained how organized crime penetrates the legal economic world. Building on these findings, we show that criminal risks should nowadays be integrated in strategic thinking at the top-management level of companies, in order to avoid the criminal predation of the value possessed and created by these companies. The best value-creating strategies, according to M. Montebello, are constructed with the clients and not against competitors. We argue that they should be elaborated with the clients and against organized crime, while competitors should sometimes be considered as partners to fight crime.