Homework Responses Wk 3

Hello Class,

 

In the field of business espionage, the use of electronic eavesdropping or other electronic penetrations persists at an alarmingly high pace. This is particularly valid now that miniaturization has advanced, allowing for smaller devices and easier concealment inside daily objects like pens, glasses, and ties. Spies that use electronic eavesdropping and other gadgets are becoming more inventive in their spying. They perform corporate espionage using a wide variety of sophisticated tactics and cutting-edge technologies. It is important that counter-intelligence professionals adapt to these emerging technologies and methods.

 

Social engineers often focus on people’s innate helpfulness as well as their flaws. For example, they could contact the designated employee with a pressing issue that necessitates immediate attention. It may also involve making an appeal of ego, authority, or greed. Both of these are popular social engineering strategies. Many, if not all, forms of vulnerabilities include social engineering. Virus writers employ social engineering techniques to persuade people to open malware-laden email attachments, phishers employ social engineering to persuade people to divulge confidential information, scare-ware vendors employ social engineering to scare people into installing software that is ineffective at best and harmful at worst.

 

In 1998, a dairy business in the Philippines lost a lot of contracts. Underbidding was a consistent problem for the dairy business. To improve its policy, the firm started to reverse engineer its pricing and methodology. However, whenever they made changes, their main opponent seemed to change as well, and they continued to lose. Management knew they had a different kind of issue at this point, possibly an internal source was feeding the competition details. They stepped up their efforts to safeguard bid documents, confining it to a secure work center conference space. Even then, the issues continued. Finally, they were told to consider a TSCM sweep by legal counsel. The TSCM team found nothing in the office building, but when they searched the public telephone exchange location, they discovered a recording system connected to their office telephone lines. Their rivals had paid Philippine National Police officers to enter the office complex, display their identity to building security officers, and obtain entry to the public telephone exchange, where they installed telephone tap equipment that was both recorded and transmitted.

 

There was no structured education and awareness program in place, especially prior to arrival in a foreign country. Similarly, there was no travel protection for travelers to inform them of the dangers they would encounter while traveling in the United States, Europe, Asia, or Africa. Almost no one in the office was aware of the attack, and there was no systematic program for monitoring alleged corporate espionage. Defense officials were still untrained in the new risks from corporate espionage and only saw preventive security measures from a physical security perspective.

 

-Kevin

 

Wimmer, C. B. (2015). Business espionage: Risks, threats, and countermeasures. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com