Journal article
Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Screening: A Solution to Threats to Research Security?
Australian Business Law Review, Vol.52(2), pp.75-95
2024
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Abstract
Over the last decade, a disturbing trend has emerged. Intelligence agents – of nations both friendly and adversarial – have endorsed or participated in acts of espionage, intellectual property theft, and targeted plagiarism against universities in both the East and the West. These actions are undertaken for a variety of motivations: gaining technological supremacy, intellectual sabotage, even diplomatic pressure. In response many Western intelligence agencies have begun working closer with universities, touting the concept of “research security” – the notion of securing the knowledge, invention and innovation developed as part of the everyday functioning of universities. Within that context, this article seeks to achieve three aims. The first is to conduct an analysis of risks facing universities with a view to establishing a hypothesis that “research security” centres on the security of individual researchers. The second aim is to then consider an unlikely source of regulatory similarity with research security: the screening of Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) for anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing. The third aim is to then propose how PEP screening could be adapted to securing the university and higher education sector.
Details
- Title
- Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Screening: A Solution to Threats to Research Security?
- Creators
- Brendan Walker-Munro - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Publication Details
- Australian Business Law Review, Vol.52(2), pp.75-95
- Publisher
- Lawbook Co.
- Identifiers
- 991013200813602368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article