In the mind of Judas: Why employees give away company secrets
✍ Scribed by Thomas Waters
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1058-0247
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✦ Synopsis
A study by the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) found that 75% of all competitive information is gathered by human intelligence sources. Only around 6% came from computer hacking or other electronic sources. While many companies have extensive systems in place to protect electronic information pilferage, what is in place to protect human information pilferage? Security cameras, card readers, and patrolling guards can reduce the theft of a company's physical assets, but an enormous amount of intellectual property leaves your of-fice in the mind of every person exiting the building. If you do not think the majority of employees have access to competitively important information, think again. Individually they may know little, but if 5, 10, or 15 of them drop an occasional stray word to a competitor, your entire production process, product recipe, strategic plan, or technical innovation may as well be plastered across a highway billboard.
Good CI professionals know that collecting lots of little pieces of information is better than one large sum. Little bits collected here and there can reveal the 9