How to Spot – and Stop – a Corporate Spy

If you think you’re not a target for corporate espionage, think again. With U.S. corporations losing as much as $300 billion per year to security breaches and corporate espionage, a spy could be closer then you think.

In an article on the InfoWorld website, Mary Brandel talks to a number of security experts to get their opinions on how to catch those corporate thieves. While most believe corporate espionage is “associated with high-tech approaches involving wireless security breaches and zombified PCs, low-tech tactics such as walking into a building are common,” she writes.

In the article, she points out a few of the most common ploys used in corporate espionage, and gives the experts’ advice on how to put the appropriate countermeasures in place.

One example Brandel uses is the phenomenon of tailgating, or when a criminal follows an employee into the office through the door. The fix? Tighten security and enforce the rules of not letting anyone with unauthorized access into the building.

Other examples of common ploys include posing as an employee, posing as a visitor, taking advantage of known insecurities in Web applications, insider theft, keystroke loggers and phishing.

To read the full article, click here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/15/How-to-spot-and-stop-a-corporate-spy_1.html