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Business Espionage
Risks, Threats, and Countermeasures

Provides a proactive accounting of the countermeasures that can be used to protect a company’s most sensitive assets from both internal and external threats

Bruce Wimmer, CPP (Author)

9780124200548, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 19 March 2015

204 pages, 12 illustrations
23.4 x 19 x 1.4 cm, 0.59 kg

"...it links the key practice of security risk management to this critical business issue in today’s global and interconnected environment. As such, it fills a disturbing gap in current writings on the subject."--ASIS Dynamics

"...the losses are substantial and largely under appreciated by complacent corporate and govt. leadership. That's the view of Bruce Wimmer, a practitioner with four decades of experience in protecting the govt. and cos. from business espionage...Wimmer wins with his argument for better security controls to prevent espionage."--Security Letter

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.

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

Subject Areas: Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Management decision making [KJMD], Economics, finance, business & management [K], Crime & criminology [JKV]

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