Author: Daniel Benny
ISBN No: 9781 466568143
Review date: 02/05/2024
No of pages: 214
Publisher: CRC Press
Publisher URL:
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466568143
Year of publication: 11/10/2013
Brief:
Industrial Espionage: Developing a Counterespionage Programme
price
£23.99
Industrial espionage may threaten from foreign governments, competitors, or insiders. Or hackers or organised crime. An American guide to the subject – and how to go about countering it – shows how preventing espionage covers all your physical, human and electronic site security. That takes in everything from asking leaving staff to return their ID badge and other company property, to staff checks (’all with access to company protected information should have an updated background investigation every five years’). The author is a former US naval intelligence officer, now a private investigator. Like many American books, this covers only US laws and history, though there is approving reference to Sherlock Holmes. That drawback aside for UK readers, Benny has covered every angle – guarding against cyber-espionage, being wary when in hotels and travelling abroad; protecting classified information (whether paper records or in digital form) and what locks, filing cabinets and windows you might want. Particularly of use is the chapter ‘the human resources department and counter-espionage’. for screeing staff, for example. The author describes the polygraph (lie detector) as ‘an excellent tool for background employment investigations … an instrument that trained professionals can read to determine whether an individual is telling the truth or lying’. As a welcome sign of how counter-espionage should happen in all parts of the workplace and at all stages of a job, the book ends with a page on ‘employee exit interview’. What would the Edward Snowden exit interview sound like?!
, by Daniel Benny. Published 2013 by CRC Press. Hardback, £23.99, 214 pages, ISBN
