Economic Espionage

Called it what you will, economic espionage, competitive intelligence, business intelligence, or corporate spying, this phenomenon is prevalent and is the new wave of snoops. The following provides an overview of government hosted web sites and documents related to economic espionage.

The US government has some in-depth information on this subject. Start with the Economic Espionage The Act of 1996. Next document to look at is Treason 101, which is one of the most in-depth reports on the web on spies. Covers a complete overview, the insider threat, how spies are caught, exploring the mind of the spy, the insider espionage threat espionage by the numbers. This pdf document (Industrial Espionage Today and Information Wars of Tomorrow) found on the NIST web site is an in-depth analysis, specifying all the current threats and trends.  You can also review case histories of industrial espionage publicized in the media and in Congressional hearings. Found on the NAVY web site is Economic Espionage: Problems and Prospects which serves as an overview of economic intelligence, existing threats and government support. Economic Intelligence provides a neat presentation presenting facts about macroeconomics, available data, quantities techniques, regional analysis, issues and applied research. Competitive Intelligence and National Security Threat is a formatted slide show presenting points about competitive intelligence research on the web and information gathered through company job postings and more. Finally on the DSS military site is a document name "Open Sources" which describes how the amount of competitive intelligence that is legally and openly available from commercial data bases, trade and scientific journals, corporate publications, U.S. Government sources, web sites, and computer bulletin boards.