Industrial Espionage Winners and Losers:

Who Ultimately Benefits from Stolen Secrets

Abstract

Industrial Espionage is widely spread through the corporate organizations now days. This is a threat to the company's secret information. Espionage means stealing or breach of important confidential information of a corporate organization. Agents and spies are working in companies to steal the important data of the organization. The internal threat is more severe than the external threat. In internal threat the 'insiders' are active in stealing the information. Organizations should focus on the Security measures within the company, to avoid espionage.

Introduction1

The Methods of Industrial Espionage2

Legal Methods2

Illegal Methods4

Targeted Attacks in Industrial Espionage5

Agents of Industrial Espionage6

Double Agent6

Re-double Agent7

Unaware Double Agent7

Triple Agent7

Intelligence Agent7

Access Agent7

Agent of Influence7

Agent Provocateur7

Facilities Agent7

Principle agent8

Confusion Agent8

Sleeper Agent8

Illegal Agent8

Cases of Industrial Espionage8

Risk Factors of Industrial Espionage9

The Impact Loss of Industrial espionage9

Conclusions10

References12

Industrial Espionage Winners and Losers:

Who Ultimately Benefits from Stolen Secrets

Introduction

The word 'Espionage' means spying or undercover work, by an individual or industry or a government. This involves the stealing of confidential data of the organization. This is ethically not permitted. When this data or information stealing occurs at the Industrial level, this is called as 'Industrial Espionage'. Industrial Espionage is also called Corporate Espionage. It most commonly occurs nationally between companies and corporations.

US companies are a truly attractive market for Industrial Espionage. It is the goal of many companies to steal the secret information of American Companies. Recent studies show that the 70% of the inner people commit the theft of company's data. The company should be aware of its computer, physical, employees and technical securities. Many Hackers, "thieves or spies" know many ways and weak points of a company, so that is why they can attack the company easily.

Industrial Espionage is spreading in the corporate world at a fast pace. Many jobs are lost every year due to breach of trade secrets. Nowadays the industrial espionage is used to steal the information, blackmailing etc, but the main key factor is to harm the corporations. The competitor companies can easily steal the information of other company and utilize the information accordingly.

Pharmaceutical companies are the most affected by the industrial espionage attacks. Sometimes the pharmaceutical companies produce new medicines after a lot of research, but the product has to be licensed before going to the market. Sometimes this new launched medicinal information is stolen, and the other companies launch the same medicine without testing. This causes severe harm to patients, when they use such medicine.

The Methods of Industrial Espionage

There are many methods use by the people for Industrial Espionage. The Soviet Intelligence especially focused on the U.S Companies. The hackers worked as freelancers. The corporate organizations and the managers working are not fully aware of the threats and dangers to their data. Companies usually do not have developed security measures against these thefts and crimes. There are following methods involved.

Legal Methods

Legal methods of Industrial Espionage are of many types. In legal methods, companies buy the products of other competitor ...