Corporate espionage is considered a flourishing underground business, whose devastating effects can be detected all across the United States. According to recent information provided by the FBI on June 28, 2012, it appears that this major problem has affected hundreds of American companies, making hundreds of businessmen lose a grand total of than $13 billion in cases opened only in 2012. This significant loss includes the future market value of stolen trade secrets. Employees and/or former employees play an important active role in the whole corporate espionage issue. Stimulated by financial incentives, and most likely influenced by these hard, unstable economic times, most employees agree to share confidential information. Companies involved in this unlawful strategy quite often prefer to pay an inside informer rather than investing a greater amount of money in their own legit development. Apparently, it seems that buying stolen information received while relying on electronic eavesdropping is cheaper and easier to attain than a natural and perfectly legal growth.
It’s not very difficult to discover that you’ve become a victim of this major problem called corporate espionage. If you realize that your competition, your staff or the media is revealing information that you consider private, in most of the cases this means that someone has decided to uncover the well-kept secrets of your company by counting on the efficiency of electronic eavesdropping, or bugging.
Can other people prosper by simply paying for your confidential information? If you keep important secrets that are worth a significant amount of money, the answer is yes. Below you will find five of the most frequent ways in which you could endanger your own company, leaving yourself exposed to various corporate espionage techniques:
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