CounterIntelligence

Any activity initiated, or information gathered, in order to prevent, block, obstruct, impede, or restrain any espionage, sabotage, or other intelligence collection efforts performed by, or on behalf of, foreign governments, industries, organizations, or persons.

Why is spying rampant in the corporate, industrial, and business worlds?

New Product Developments and Plans
Mergers and Acquisitions Plans
Protection of Financial Information

Protection of Trade Secrets
Labor Union Disputes
Industrial Spies (other companies and/or countries)

Negotiating Strategies
Corporate legal problems
Employee Spying

Just to name a few...

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence identified a dozen foreign governments that “promote, direct, and orchestrate” clandestine efforts to collect other countries economic secrets or proprietary information for the benefit of their own industries. The top named countries included on the list were: France, Israel, China, Russia, and India.

Compiled by 38 federal law enforcement agencies, the following statistics* detail industrial or corporate espionage techniques (frequency of usage):

71% - Audio Interception and Wired Microphones
60% - Miniature Audio Transmitters
43% - Electronic Beepers, Tracking Devices, and Sensors
40% - Telephone Wire Taps, Recorders, and Pen Registers

17% - Computer Usage Monitoring (Microsoft 2000 threat)
17% - Electonic Mail Monitoring
14% - Cellular Radio Interception
11% - Satellite Interception

83% - Closed Circuit Television or Covert Video
68% - Still Photography
63% - Night Vision Systems

* This is at a minimum based on “reported” incident findings. Most incidents of industrial-corporate espionage are not reported due to a company policy, inhibition, embarrassment or simply not knowing where to go with the finding or who to trust with their information.

Intellectual Security Precautions EVERY Business Needs to Know:

Who spies? Competitors, Vendors, Business Intel Consultants, Colleagues Vying for positions, Overbearing Bosses, Suspicious Partners, The Press, Labor Negotiators, Gov't. Agencies... The List is Endless.

Why would I be targetted? Money and power are the top two reasons behind illegal surveillance. If anything you say or write could increase someone’s wealth or influence, you could be a target.

Is snooping common place? YES... The news is full of stories about stolen information (most news begin with leaks). Most incidents never make the news due to potential embarrassments.

Can I protect myself? Yes... Business espionage is preventable. If you know the vulnerabilities, you can take proper security precautions.

Top 10 Business Espionage Tricks Used Successfully Over and Over Again:

1. Trash Trawling (sifting through garbage)

2. Bugs and Wiretaps (rooms and phones)

3. "Drop-By" Spies (outside workers)

4. Computer Hacking and Cracking

5. Mobile Phone "Leeches" (cellular and cordless)

6. Technology Traitors (everyday devices)

7. Meeting "Chameleons" (shows, seminars, etc.)

8. "Give Aways" (unlocked offices, drawers,
paperwork on desk, etc.)

9. Business Phone Attacks (feature-rich phone systems)

10. Treason ("trusted" employees)

Snoop / Spy Composite Profile:
* National CounterIntelligence Center, Wash. D.C. - Business Controls and Countermeasures

Female as often as male, college graduate with low value degree, broad short-term employment history, money problems, military intelligence experience and/or
acquaintance(s) with law enforcement backgrounds, disability precluding a law-enforcement career, considered an outsider or loner, no police record, thrill seeker with romantic interests in risky endeavors (skydiving, scuba, etc.), collects underground and/or paramilitary literature, active interest in firearms, abilities in music, chess or math (code breaking skills), often just a drone (agent) of a professional handler.

Tamberlane CounterIntelligence

The TSCM (Technical Surveillance CounterMeasures) effort basically includes two endeavors, an on-site technical surveillance and then a countermeasures effort. The Technical Surveillance of the target facility and it’s environ is accomplished by highly experienced, technically educated technicians using state-of-the-art equipment to prosecute the facility. Suggested countermeasures employed to prevent and detect the interception of sensitive, classified, or private information are then proffered based on the findings and procedures in place to prevent an attack.

The TSCM endeavor normally consists of the following venue:

I. Client initiates a secure contact to us using a phone that is not on the target site. Initial briefing meeting will be in a sterile location away from the suspect facility.
II. Pre-Inspection Threat Survey.
          1. Review of facility blueprints, current information security policies and procedures.
          2. Escorted visit to the site(s) and their environs to determine physical security
              measures required to protect against technical attack and penetration as well as
              unaided audio leakage.
          3. Vulnerability Analysis (external RF atmospherics survey, phone & structural audit,
              probable listening posts, and development of threat model).
III. Technical Surveil (comprehensive electronic, visual and physical examination).
          1. Silent/non-alerting passive “naked” walk-thru during business hours.
          2. Auto bug, wireless detection, initial VLF inspection (AC, telcom, LAN and HVAC
              identified). Non-linear junction.
          3. Passive Inspection (full passive Radio Frequency spectrum & light spectrum survey).
          4. Active Inspection (normally after hours) – Physical inspection of targeted offices and
              structures. Telephone equipment and line analysis.
IV. Verbal Briefing.
          1. Anomalies and findings.
V. Post-Inspection Brief and Follow-Up.
          1. Anomalies and findings.
              Suggested: Post-inspection of site a couple weeks later (full passive RF & light
              spectrum sweep) to identify if attacker(s) have reinstalled anything; provided they
              knew we were coming and removed their units prior to our work.
VI. Final Technical Vulnerability Report to the Company.
Note: As written and agreed to in the contract for TSCM services, upon discovery of clandestine and illegal device(s), this agency will take pictures and analyze the device in-place and then advise the client, their legal authorities and in-due course, the proper law enforcement agency of the finding. The client company needs to understand that not only are state laws being violated but more importantly, federal laws are as well (Title III).