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Six essential qualities that
are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy,
wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
7/11/07 FBI Release: One of your
execs is on a business trip overseas. At an opportune time, a foreign spy
covertly plants software on her laptop. Unsuspecting, she returns home and plugs
her laptop into your company’s computer network. By the time your security
experts get wind of it, your most cherished business secrets are long gone.
Welcome to the twenty-first century world
of espionage. Threats like these may sound like the stuff of fiction, but they
are real and could well be coming to a factory, office, or university near you.
But there’s some good news. Armed with an
understanding of the possibilities, you can minimize the risk of you and your
organization becoming an unwitting target.
So what do you need to know?
Here are some basics.
Know What Spies Want
At the top of their country’s hit lists:
The inside skinny on our government’s
policies and intentions towards their country.
Details on U.S. military plans and
weapons systems.
The crown jewels of our economy: our
nation’s best scientific and technological innovations and research, both
public and private.
Cutting edge U.S. management
practices, which themselves are a valuable asset.
Know Their Favorite “Disguises”
Representatives at supposed “research
institutes”;
Visiting business professionals and
scientists who want to tour your state-of-the-art plants and operations
worldwide (a great place to take pictures and make friends);
Tourists or visitors on non-immigrant
visas;
Diplomatic officials, the standard
cover;
False front companies; and
Students and educators.
Know Their Collection Strategies
Here are just a few you might not expect:
Out of the blue, you get a call asking
for the latest manual for one of your products. Or someone shows up
unannounced at your plant and asks to buy large quantities of your
electronics. The end game? They dissect your products and then go out and
start producing the technologies themselves.
You hire a foreign-born engineer who
has been educated in this country. Over a 10-15 year period, she rises to
mid-level management. Then, she returns to her home country—where she gets
paid by that government to set up a business that competes with yours.
A series of university students and
professors from overseas take jobs in research labs on campus and get involved
in related military projects. Individually, they learn only bits and pieces.
But collectively, when they pass that information back to their home country,
it paints a telling picture of our country’s defense initiatives.
Foreign intelligence operatives strike
up a relationship with a business professional, tourist, diplomat, expatriate,
or student visiting their country. At first, it’s a purely social
relationship. But then it slowly turns to talk of what that person may know.
In some cases, that person may end up selling vital secrets for cash.
And know this: we can
help you better understand these threats and take specific actions to stop them.
