The “Technology Asset Protection Association” is a non-profitable Association that includes Security Professionals who work for high-technology companies and their business partners.

Vision

Work in the industry to effectively reduce losses during manufacturing, transportation, and distribution of high-technology products.

Mission

Protect high-tech company and other business partners' assets in the supply chain in Brazil by:

Exchanging information at a local and global level.

Assisting in preventive security actions.

When applicable, increasing the support to freight transportation and logistic companies by working with legal authorities and the government.

Working with organizations such as TAPA USA, TAPA EMEA and TAPA ASIA.

OBJECTIVE

Offer Viable Solutions to Risk Management.

Exchange experiences about company's processes that do not have a proprietary characteristic.

Continuous improvement as a whole for more effective security actions in risk areas.

Have these processes incorporated by the industry to reduce adverse effects from robbery to a minimum.

Technological robbery is a serious problem

The quick design and development of high-technology products in the 1990s up to our days has increased and gained additional space throughout the World. Computer parts, computers, telecommunication products, computer memories and other parts have become increasingly smaller, faster, easier to carry, more powerful… and more desired.

The efforts to protect these valuable components inside manufacturing and storage facilities have become increasingly sophisticated. As a result, criminals begun to seek these products when they are being moved. Robbery incidents involving transported freights have taken place everywhere in the World today. TAPA was founded in the United States of America to attack the freight robbery problem, which the high-technology industry had, at the time, been faced with. In Brazil, this problem has taken place the same way as it happened in North America and other regions in the World, such as Europe and Asia.

Cultural concerns have an impact on the theft or robbery of high-technology products.

The number of social concerns has helped increase the number of computer robberies and products from this area when they are in transit:

High-technology products are becoming increasingly smaller and more portable, thus increasing the risk of robbery.

The high-technology value increases a product attractiveness.

Discovering the potential profit from a high-technology product robbery by organized crime at a global scale.

The opening of distribution channels to emerging global markets.

The quick exposition and growth of high-technology products manufactured everywhere in the World, and the increased demand for high-technology products.

In some cases, valuable items, such as microprocessors, have been used by criminals as a “currency” used to buy drugs, once the possession of such products is not illegal.

Due to the security environment in Brazil, several of the above concerns apply to other relevant products, such as food, beverages, tires, cigarettes, fuel, etc...

Business advantages from enrolling in TAPA

Security Departments in leading companies have developed an added value in their organizations. Security professionals in high-technology companies have frequently been considered real business partners because they provide valuable security recommendations and consulting information to business managers. Such information and recommendations can help the company increase its ability to be successful. Having the knowledge is having the power, and today security professionals may ensure knowledge at a lower cost by enrolling in TAPA, and such gains may be translated into the following benefits to their company:

Reduction freight robbery related losses during transportation thanks to the use of security recommendations when freights are handled – recommendations created with the support from literally dozens of years of TAPA leadership, combined with the experience in corporate security.

More cost-effective benefits when it comes to signing contracts with source forwarders as a result from implementing TAPA requirements during transportation (Minimum security requirements).

Reduction of customer complaints because of shutdowns caused by reduced number of shipments as a result from product robbery.

Reduction of incidents with sales losses, or loss of market share due to smuggling or forgery activities, or problems related to the diversity of illegal products.

Combined advantage of more than 50 global high-technology companies working to leverage and negotiate in more favorable conditions with freight insurance and transportation companies. Being part of a “statistical security” to solve crimes against high-technology product freight.

The benefit of having high-technology industry Best Security Practices at your service regarding scrap to be destroyed, tracking warranty frauds, validity frauds and solving other serious security problems.

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