Corporate spying is increasingly used to target smaller companies in surprising sectors, including education and agriculture
) is increasingly the currency of business. The second is the growing sophistication of online hackers.s should be worried when they see their firms’ secrets being hawked on the dark web: one new marketplace, Industrial Spy, flogs stolen data and documents to “legitimate” businesses. Information is sold in packets ranging from a few dollars to millions. Keeping, most people think of patents.
The good news for firms is that legislative protections for trade secrets have grown stronger. A turning point in America was the Defend Trade Secrets Act, passed in 2016, which greatly expanded the type and number of secrets covered by federal law—and whose passage led to a 30% jump in cases filed, says Tim Londergan of Tangibly, anThe bad news is that many firms are surprisingly poor managers of such secrets. It is not enough to make reasonable efforts to keep the information confidential.
America, too, has cracked down with China in mind. According to America’s Department of Justice, roughly four-fifths of all economic-spying cases it brings “allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state”. The best-known case of suspected espionage by China, involving Huawei, a telecoms-gear maker, is the tip of a large iceberg.
The case highlights another challenge for companies trying to keep a lid on secrets. They can spend as much as they like on beefing up theirsystems, but they still need to watch out for older, more analogue forms of exfiltration. Operatives for Procter & Gamble were once caught diving in dumpsters outside a Unilever office in Chicago in search of information about its consumer-goods rival’s marketing strategy.
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