| Any business can be the target of covert | | | | journalists, or anyone with a reason for obtaining |
| eavesdropping; however, some are under greater | | | | information about you or your company's plans. |
| risk than others i.e.; software development | | | | The deployment of such equipment takes only |
| companies, high tech startups, defense | | | | seconds and they can be easily concealed. And, as |
| contractors, companies awarded GSA or GPO | | | | electronic surveillance technology improves and |
| contracts, or any highly competitive industry. | | | | becomes more readily available, executives, |
| What is the potential effect on you or your | | | | security professionals and private individuals must |
| business if sensitive information is intercepted by | | | | educate themselves about what counter |
| an eavesdropper? | | | | surveillance methods and tools they can use to |
| No business in today's highly competitive | | | | see that their interests remain safe. |
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| happens to be working for someone else, not | | | | surveillance technology used to find microphones, |
| only the top executives, but everyone in the | | | | transmitters, and other eavesdropping devices |
| company is at risk of having their livelihood taken | | | | has caught up to the sophistication level of covert |
| away. In any given corporation, there could be | | | | surveillance equipment. The TSCM or "Bug |
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| signs should you be on the lookout for? | | | | you or your company vulnerable to corporate, |
| When possible, eavesdroppers or spies take the | | | | economic or industrial espionage. |
| easiest route to a target or company's assets. In | | | | What can you do to protect your Business from |
| those situations, for example, a spy may gain | | | | Electronic Espionage: 7 steps |
| authorized access as an employee. In other cases, | | | | 1. Recognize the signs and that there is a real |
| a spy might enter your home or organization as a | | | | threat. |
| member of the cleaning crew or gather | | | | 2. Identify and valuate trade secrets. |
| information from employees by posing as a | | | | 3. Implement a definable plan for safeguarding |
| vendor, potential client, or headhunter. However, | | | | your assets. |
| when these avenues have been compromised, | | | | 4. Secure physical trade secrets and limit access. |
| spies will turn to electronic surveillance technology. | | | | 5. Confine intellectual knowledge. |
| Electronic bugging devices are freely available over | | | | 6. Provide ongoing security training to employees. |
| the web, through retail outlets and mail-order | | | | 7. Contact a professional Counter Surveillance |
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