Organizations are consistently exposed to various risks and attempts to obtain information concerning their brand, products, and competitive advantage. These attempts encompass intellectual property breaches, the collection of trade secrets information, theft of customer or client information, theft of information on competitors’ tenders and contracts, theft of financial information, embezzlement, and attempts to blackmail key position holders.
The means used to obtain this information is defined as industrial intelligence gathering. The threats organizations face are diverse, including hackers, cybercriminals, former employees, current employees, competitors, and adversaries. Some competitors even hire researchers and business intelligence companies with extensive experience in intelligence gathering to locate valuable information on people and organizations. These professionals are skilled in their work and can often accomplish their tasks without leaving a trace.
To address industrial intelligence gathering, organizations can focus their efforts on the following:
- Enhancing information security within enterprises that utilize software and hardware.
- Developing sophisticated intelligence gathering techniques.
- Updating and developing training programs for organizational procedures and policies.
Our trainers are intelligence professionals with extensive experience in collecting information and conducting intelligence operations worldwide. With their background in gathering information on individuals and corporations worldwide, their expertise enables them to impart the most comprehensive, high-quality, and up-to-date knowledge related to industrial intelligence gathering practices.
We offer a range of services dedicated to mitigating the risks of corporate espionage and unauthorized information acquisition, including:
- Thorough employee training programs spanning three days to equip individuals with essential skills and knowledge.
- Tailored training programs for senior executives, carefully designed to meet the specific needs and preferences of our clients.
- Customized one-time lectures drawn from our training syllabus to meet our clients’ demands.
- Personalized consulting and accompaniment services for companies seeking to strengthen their security measures.
- Development of robust security procedures and corporate information gathering prevention programs to help safeguard our clients’ interests.
- Pre-recruitment and post-recruitment background checks for individuals seeking employment in small or large organizations.
- Due Diligence services for companies and businesspeople, designed to provide valuable insights before or during business engagements with customers, suppliers, and partners.
Training Program Objectives
The Competitive Advantage Protection Program offers participants the opportunity to gain familiarity with the world of industrial information gathering, equipping them with critical knowledge and key methodologies employed by competitors to inflict harm upon an organization’s assets.
The course aims to accomplish the following objectives:
- Raise awareness among the organization’s employees regarding potential security violations.
- Foster an understanding of the various industrial espionage threats that may jeopardize the organization’s operations and reputation.
- Cultivate familiarity with the methodologies and manipulations used by intelligence experts to obtain insider information for their clients.
- Develop the ability to mitigate risks by implementing effective countermeasures and protective measures.
- The curriculum of the Competitive Advantage Protection Program is divided into three main categories: information security, human intelligence, and organizational knowledge base management and development.
In the information security module, participants explore how competitors and adversaries attempt to collect information.
The human intelligence module focuses on the methods used to collect business information, how gathered information assists in targeting employees for extracting information, how to identify if one has become a “target,” and how to detect phishing attempts on social media.
The management and development of procedures module delves into fostering a routine of security awareness within the organization.
