Business Espionage: Risks, Threats, and Countermeasures

Business Espionage: Risk, Threats, and Countermeasures provides the best practices needed to protect a company's most sensitive information. It takes a proactive approach, explaining the measures and countermeasures that can be enacted to identify both threats and weaknesses. The text fully explains the threat landscape, showing not only how spies operate, but how they can be detected.

Drawn from the author’s 40 years of experience, this vital resource will give readers a true understanding of the threat of business spying and what businesses can do to protect themselves. It is ideal for use as a tool to educate staff on the seriousness of the threat of business espionage.

Shows how to identify a company’s threats, weaknesses, and most critical assetsProvides proven and practical countermeasures that any business can employ to protect their most sensitive assets from both internal and external threatsUses real-life case studies and examples to help the reader understand how to apply the tactics discussed

Chapter 1: Understanding the Risks

Chapter 2: High-Threat Locations for Business Espionage

Chapter 3: Characteristics of a Spy

Chapter 4: Espionage by Electronic Means

Chapter 5: Espionage by Physical Theft

Chapter 6: Facing Espionage When Travelling

Chapter 7: The Insider Threat

Chapter 8: Protecting Your Most Critical Resources

Chapter 9: Physical Countermeasures

Chapter 10: Technical Electronic and Computer Countermeasures

Chapter 11: Comprehensive Countermeasures