Watermark Risk Management International LLC

Watermark recently joined the Goal Group to add to a growing International capability and network. Watermark is based in Virginia, USA.

Combined with our long term and active connection with The Society for Policing Cyberspace, the Goal Group has a growing capability and capacity to address an organisations cyber and other security issues.

Matt Branigan – President of Watermark

Watermark started as a security management consulting firm, helping clients with focused, comprehensive, and balanced approaches to their security challenges. As its reputation for professionalism and value-enhancing results spread, clients started asking for assistance with broader issues, and they found themselves growing into a comprehensive risk management solutions company.

Watermark opens a conduit for Goal Group resources to engage in the USA together with bringing to the Goal Group the following capabilities:

Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)

Watermark provides a broad range of security policy, planning, and operational management services at levels from the strategic to the tactical. In addition to advising companies on how to better prepare and manage their security investment and resources, they also assist companies across the security industry to grow their businesses strategically.

Specific capabilities include:

• Staff Augmentation
• Security Policy and Program Development
• Personnel and Industrial Security
• Assessments and Analysis
• Business Continuity Planning and Implementation
• Independent Quality Assurance Audits
• Training, Exercise, and Evaluation Programs
• Red Teaming
• Market and Competitive Analyses
• Growth Strategies/Business Development
• Capture Planning and Execution
• Teaming Analysis and Introductions
• Full Spectrum Proposal Support

Ethics and Compliance Programs

Studies have proven that organizations with a strong commitment to ethical business practices enjoy a competitive advantage in the marketplace – client and employee retention, customer satisfaction, and superior financial performance. A study by Ethisphere™ in 2010 demonstrated that the World’s Most Ethical companies substantially outperformed the market in each of the last 5 years. The answer is clear – ethical performance is not only the right thing to do; it is the best thing you can do for your business.

Managing fraud risk and compliance exposure is a critical priority across industries. Watermark can help your company meet compliance requirements and manage the risks so your business can focus on doing business. Goal Group is proud to know that Watermark is one of the few ethics and compliance consulting firms in the US to offer full spectrum support to their clients’ ethics and compliance programs.

Business and Government Continuity of Operations

When it comes to helping businesses and government agencies to prepare to respond to and recover from a major crisis, Watermark allows the Goal Group to take a refreshingly different approach compared to most companies. Watermark have called this approach Focus72. Focus72 addresses the two critical components needed for any enterprise -- large or small -- to prepare itself for crisis response, recovery, and resumption of operations: continuity planning and leadership preparation. By focusing on the crucial first 72 hours of a crisis and by capitalizing on managerial development investments the enterprise has already made, this approach delivers leadership and staff tools ready to employ at roughly 25-30% of the time and cost of most business continuity programs.

Nuclear Security Operations

Nuclear security functions by their very nature must be “zero defects” operations – failure is not an option. Members of the Watermark staff are among the most senior nuclear security planners, programmers, practitioners and quality assurance/oversight executives in the entire world. With deep background and experience in defence and commercial security operations, our staff can assist you with the full spectrum of support, from requirements definition to concept design, policy development to security master planning, high-level systems design to program management and integration oversight. In addition, we can engage in specific functional areas to include staff selection and development, human reliability program development and support, all manner of training programs and exercises, and of course the design, development and implementation of comprehensive oversight, evaluation, and quality assurance programs.

Alternative Analysis

Watermark's alternative analysis practice is dedicated to helping organizations escape predictable and potentially harmful patterns of thought. We emphasize intuitive, visual modeling techniques that help merge the experience, perspective, and know-how of our staff, consultants, and clients.

Alternative analysis represents a class of approaches, tools, and techniques designed to help “debias” thinking, enhance decision making, and avoid surprise. The successful use of alternative analysis can help a decision maker:

• reframe a complex problem;
• overturn faulty assumptions;
• identify overlooked risks;
• identify new strategies; and
• anticipate, avoid and even inflict surprise.

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