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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]