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 How ready are you and your company to cope with business espionage and the stealthy tactics employed to gather corporate information? Your competitors and others want to know what makes your company successful or what your company may do in the future to improve its competitive position.
We provide world class information protection awareness briefings, education and training to staff on all levels, assist with the creation and implementation of policies/procedures, appropriate defensive measures and services.
One of the defensive services that we offer, eavesdropping detection surveys, also referred to as technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM), is a set of measures to identify and locate hostile and illegal technical devices planted at your company for information collection purposes. Major decisions are usually taken in boardrooms and executive offices. Regular countermeasures surveys of these facilities, telephones, other communication apparatus and systems can prevent or limit technical intrusions by hostile entities.
Corporate information gathering is a fact of life, even more so during hard and tough economic times. Many successful businesses are doing a good job to protect their own secrets and intellectual property. Many do nothing, maybe hoping for the best or perhaps believing that business is, after all, a "gentleman's" game … clean, fair, and fun?
Unfortunately no business is immune and many will go to extraordinary lengths to obtain information about their competitors. They can make use of legal/ethical, unethical or outright criminal methods to gather information.
The dangers of corporate intelligence gathering are often underestimated because many times there are no overt signs or indications of the attack. Regular headlines about industrial espionage, business intelligence and information theft indicate that the adequate protection of proprietary information has become a worldwide problem.
If your company deals with sensitive information, information that has economic value, records or personal information or plainly has an aggressive competitor ... you could be a target. If you have no corporate information protection system or information security procedures in place then we can help to provide you with a defensive capability.
Many companies still employ outdated measures to protect their information that do not address the modern day threats against business information.
Should you wish to purchase your own equipment to conduct your own countermeasures surveys we can supply you with the equipment and training. We have a range of the latest and most modern equipment suitable for all levels of business, from the small SMME's to big corporations and government organisations.
To remain competitive, companies need to allocate resources for the protection of information, training of staff and regular countermeasures surveys. The protection of business information is a corporate issue and should be on the executive agenda. Corporate strategy can only succeed if it adds value to all levels of a business, including the weakest links. Often one of the weakest links in a corporation is the failure to recognise the need to protect against business intelligence operations and industrial espionage.
Companies need counterintelligence or a corporate defense programme to protect trade secrets, documents, conversations and communications.
"It is a principal that we do not assume that the enemy will not come but instead that we must prepare for their arrival"
- The Art of War; Sun Tsu - Leader of the Chinese WU Army, 500 BC. |
