Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost: Preventing Intellectual Property Theft and Economic Espionage in the 21st Century

by Richard Power, Christopher Burgess

Overview

The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to top $250 billion annually and also costs the United States approximately 750,000 jobs. The International Chamber of Commerce puts the global fiscal loss at more than $600 billion a year.

Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost offers both a fascinating journey into the underside of the Information Age, geopolitics, and global economy, shedding new light on corporate hacking, industrial espionage, counterfeiting and piracy, organized crime and related problems, and a comprehensive guide to developing a world-class defense against these threats. You will learn what you need to know about this dynamic global phenomenon (how it happens, what it costs, how to build an effective program to mitigate risk and how corporate culture determines your success), as well as how to deliver the message to the boardroom and the workforce as a whole. This book serves as an invaluable reservoir of ideas and energy to draw on as you develop a winning security strategy to overcome this formidable challenge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597492553
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/05/2008
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Power is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Security, Intelligence and Risk. An independent consultant, he provides guidance in the areas of personnel security, cyber security, crisis management, terrorism, cyber crime and economic espionage to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies globally. Previously, he served as the Director of Security Management and Security Intelligence for the Global Security Office of Deloitte Touch Tomatsu from 2002-2005. Prior to that, he was Editorial Director of the Computer Security Institute. He authors a monthly column on information security issues for Computer Fraud and Security Journal, as well as a monthly column on for the Research and Technology Protection section of the FBI’s Infragard program. He is the author of Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace (Macmillan/QUE 2000).

Table of Contents

Your Enterprise At Risk
The Tale of the Targeted Trojan
When Insiders and/or Competitors Target Business
Intellectual Property
When State Entities Target Business? Intellectual Property
When Piracy, Counterfeiting and Organized Crime Target Business
Intellectual Property
Virtual Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Economic Espionage
Elements of a Holistic Program
Case Study: Cisco's Award-Winning Awareness Program
Case Study of A Bold, New Approach in Awareness and Education Meets An Ignoble Fate
Case Study—The Mysterious Social Engineering Attacks on Entity X
Personnel Security
Physical Security-The "Duh" Factor
Information Security
The Intelligent Approach
Protecting Intellectual Property in Crisis Situation
How to Sell Your Intellectual Property Protection Program
Appendices

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From the Publisher

This book brings you up not only up to speed, but ahead of the curve on the full spectrum of problems and solutions related to intellectual property theft and economic espionage in the 21st century