There are many BIG Companies in the world...
many BIG companies in the same industry....
and ALL of them wants to be No.1...!!

Those phrases are what we know since we entered our feet to work at a company, so does the corporate executives and owners of those companies.

But most of them, including you, doesn't know how much money those companies are willing to spend to get to know their competitors. According to the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), these companies spent $2 Billion to spy on each other in 2004, so what about 5 years afterwards, 2009.

What do they really want to get out of their competitors?, here are some examples :








That is quite frightening for most people i suppose. The scariest part is the covert surveillance devices they are using to collect those datas, are commonly cheap, comparing to the losses they made out of their espionage activities. They could be bought straight off the internet for example, or for someone who is more professional they could make devices easily and modify it to their needs. We'll talk about how easy and cheap they are on another blog post later on.

The core problem of how these horrible things could happens are the unawareness of Security Directors, CEOs, Board members and High Profile Individuals of this issue. That leads to the unhighly paid attention to security procedures policy in the company, unprofessional security personnel, and the lack of security knowledge of all the employees in a company.

After a huge amount of profit losses, a failed merger plan and/or stolen marketing ideas, the companies start to look for answers of how it happened. Then they realizes that their competitor knows everything or something about them & they're already screwed. By that time it's already too late and that's the time when they're starting to realize the meaning of corporate espionage.