Month: May 2023

The term is actually part of a longer statement: Caveat emptor, quia ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit (“Let a purchaser beware, for he ought not to be ignorant of the nature of the property which he is buying from another party.”) This implies that buyers should inspect and or otherwise ensure that they …

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“People are assets, but can also be a weakness”           (Quotation from the New Zealand Protective Security Requirements – NZPSR).  One of the tenets of the NZPSR is that most risks, other than natural disasters, are acts of human behaviour. Insider risk, i.e. those that harm the organisation from the inside, be it exploitation, illegitimate …

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