Responsible for investigating how the tabloid "National Enquirer" received private messages from Jeff Bezos, Amazon's general manager, Becker Gavin, knows what it means to deal with the # 39, insecurity from an early age. The 64-year-old security specialist said that his mother and sister, heroin addicts, regularly came looking for his sister. She came to slaughter her stepfather and, at the age of 16, De Becker committed suicide.
A New York Times article reports that "after the family tragedy, he moved to live with the family of a school friend in Los Angeles (USA). It's there that he contacted actors and great Hollywood personalities, who are now among their main clients.
The expert is chairman of the board and founder of Gavin of Becker and Associates, a Los Angeles-based consulting and security firm operating in seven countries. In an article in Esquire magazine, Michael J. Fox, of "Back to the Future," compared what society does to well-known figures that the US Secret Service plays for presidents, vice presidents, and ex-presidents. -Presidents.
The "security" company of Bezos is also hired from a number of US public agencies, such as the CIA Intelligence, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, as well as state police departments and police departments.
Becker has become a celebrity in the world of security and has participated in television shows such as Oprah Winfrey and Larry King. It has been featured by publications such as "Wall Street Journal", "New York Times", magazines "Time" and "Newsweek". But all this popularity came only after 1997, when he published his book "Virtues of Fear: Warning Signs That Protect Us from Violence".
This publication became one of this year's best-selling books in the United States, placing the author in the spotlight. He was well known in Hollywood after advising family lawyers Ronald Goldman, murdered with Nicole Simpson in 1994, in the media case suspected of being linked to former OJ Simpson [19659007]. His clients, however, are usually not like Bezos. The most common is hiring a privacy-focused service – he recently opened the Becker and Associates Private Gavin Suite area at the Los Angeles Airport. The space functions as a remote terminal, so celebrities or executives willing to spend a little money can circulate without having to deal with paparazzi.
The Case of the Chief Executive Officer Amazon's is that of a customer whose privacy has been violated. Despite this, the "mark" of De Becker is found in the text that Bezos published in Medium to announce that he had been blackmailed by the owners of the National Enquirer – the executive revealed that the tabloid contains pictures of himself and his girlfriend in which they appear naked seminus. According to the CEO of Amazon, the Enquirer uses the nudge to make him sing: he stops with the Washington Post.
According to the CEO of Amazon, Enquirer uses the nudge to blackmail him. investigate the tabloid's political links with Trump and his commercial interests in Saudi Arabia, otherwise the photos would be made public.
It is clear that the published content conforms to the expert's guidelines on how to respond to an attempt at intimidation, blackmail or extortion.
The "Daily Mail" extracted quotations from the book that brought De Becker to fame to show how Bezos was acting as his guru would like. The expert said that if a person threatened you with evidence of infidelity by suggesting that you put your partner into the conversation, the situation would improve to a minimum.
"If you persuade the extortionist that threat damage does not bother you, you at least have improved his position in the negotiation," wrote De Becker in the 1997 publication.
Publishing the letter, Bezos tries to defuse the National Enquirer's threats. Apparently, the boss of the Amazon has done his homework with his security guru.
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When you open Becker and Associates' Gavin site, you end up with a huge picture of the company's founder. , described with "the greatest expert of the nation in the protection of personalities". The mini-profile also highlights "three presidential nominations" received by De Becker for his work in predicting and preventing violence.
However, his company has specialists in various areas of personal safety. President Mark Haught, for example, came from the US Department of Homeland Security with a ticket to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), where he contributed to the expansion of the US operations after September 11, 2001. He also
Vice President Gabrielle Thompson, as well as case manager Ellen Prystajko, are experienced behavioral scientists who have experience in the affairs of threats and of unwanted persecution. Among the other experts, there are professionals who have experience in places such as the FBI and the CIA before moving on to the private sector.
Badalona says it has a few thousand customers, including more than 90 of the world's most prominent families. It provides all kinds of security and privacy-related services, such as logistics and travel security, auditing potential new customer employees, and training customer teams in security awareness.
The Editor Beyond Security
After publishing "Virtues of Fear" in 1997, De Becker praised his work for his publications and celebrities. Among the praises retained by the author himself, let us quote a commentary by actress Meryl Streep, who describes the play as "a complete and compbadionate guide for those concerned about their safety and their families", adding that the content gives power to the reader. [19659002] Bezos' security guard has published three more books since then, the last being "Just 2 Seconds", co-author of Tom Taylor and Jeff Marquat.
De Becker's second book, published in 1999, is for parents looking to keep their children safe: "Protecting the gift: Keeping children and teens safe (and healthy parents)"
In 2002, he published "Fear Less: The Truth About Risk, Security, and Safety in Times of Terrorism" shortly after the September 11 attacks, with recommendations for improving personal safety and security. all of the United States, at a time of widespread fear caused by terrorism.
