Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage — a form of unfair competition at which illegal receiving, use, disclosure of information constituting commercial, official or other secret protected by the law with the aim of obtaining advantages in business activity, as well as of material gain..
The main purpose of industrial espionage — save time and money you want to spend to catch up a competitor, occupying a leading position, or to prevent future backlog from the competitor, if he has developed or is developing a promising new technology and to enter new for the enterprise markets.
This is true in relation to interstate competition, where the issues of economic competitiveness and added the issues of national security.
The main difference between industrial espionage from competitive intelligence that industrial spying violates rules of law, especially criminal, then how competitive intelligence can not do this.
Industrial espionage is and will remain a powerful tool for government intelligence agencies, the purpose of which — a direct violation of the laws of foreign countries in the interest and on behalf of their country.
At the enterprise level in recent times is opting for competitive intelligence, because the company has no powers of state intelligence services, so in case of failure of the operation of industrial espionage risks to be prosecuted, and incur reputational risks.
According to some researchers, in many cases, the enterprises of small and medium businesses have resorted to industrial espionage because not trained in competitive intelligence, and often do not know about their existence. In a situation when the need for survival or competitiveness exists objectively, and that there are legitimate methods of achieving a result the company is not informed of the companies gets in the way of industrial espionage. In this regard, society of competitive intelligence professionals around the world include in their educational task function.
1) Bribery of holder of information representing commercial, official or other secret protected by the law
2) Blackmail in relation to the same circle of people
3) Theft of vehicles with information of commercial, official or other secret protected by the law
a) the introduction of the agent to the company or to the country of the competitor with the task to access information or products, which are the subject of commercial or other secrets protected by law of a competitor.
b) theft of media information through illegal use of technology (listening to foreign phone lines, trespassing into other people's computer networks, etc.).
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