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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Economic espionage
Economic espionage is a form of espionage that specifically focuses on unlawfully obtaining critical economic intelligence, such as intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets. Intellectual property and trade secrets are both essential and valuable to the general economy and society, nation states, and companies. Data, new technologies, processes and other important research & development (R&D) information can all be part of intellectual property. But also trade secrets, business plans and market intelligence are targetted in espionage. Due to the high value of economic intelligence, companies try to protect their intellectual property from being stolen. Depending on the IP value, the financial damage that can be done with economic espionage differs tremendously. Apart from stealing information, it can also be altered or erased to sabotage the organisation capacity to operate.
Due to the high impact that economic espionage can have, laws and legislation are in place in many countries to criminalize and penalize individuals who commit such acts. Economic espionage can be conducted in various ways, for example by insiders within a company or institution. Also, methods are used such as cyber-attacks, bribery, dumpster diving and wiretapping to obtain high value information. Economic espionage is mainly instigated by nation states, while industrial espionage is done by companies. In our definition both are part of economic espionage. Economic and industrial espionage is most commonly associated with technology-heavy industries.
Related keywords: counterintelligence, economic loss, corporate espionage, nation state espionage
Economic espionage is a form of espionage that specifically focuses on unlawfully obtaining critical economic intelligence, such as intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets. Intellectual property and trade secrets are both essential and valuable to the general economy and society, nation states, and companies. Data, new technologies, processes and other important research & development (R&D) information can all be part of intellectual property. But also trade secrets, business plans and market intelligence are targetted in espionage. Due to the high value of economic intelligence, companies try to protect their intellectual property from being stolen. Depending on the IP value, the financial damage that can be done with economic espionage differs tremendously. Apart from stealing information, it can also be altered or erased to sabotage the organisation capacity to operate.
Due to the high impact that economic espionage can have, laws and legislation are in place in many countries to criminalize and penalize individuals who commit such acts. Economic espionage can be conducted in various ways, for example by insiders within a company or institution. Also, methods are used such as cyber-attacks, bribery, dumpster diving and wiretapping to obtain high value information. Economic espionage is mainly instigated by nation states, while industrial espionage is done by companies. In our definition both are part of economic espionage. Economic and industrial espionage is most commonly associated with technology-heavy industries.
Related keywords: counterintelligence, economic loss, corporate espionage, nation state espionage
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