This document discusses corporate espionage, including its definition, common areas targeted, and methods used. It notes that corporate espionage aims to illegally obtain confidential information to gain a competitive advantage, and often targets technology, biotechnology, aerospace and other industries. Information is typically stolen about ideas, techniques, processes, customer data, pricing and marketing strategies. Common methods mentioned include hacking systems, social engineering, dumpster diving, wireless hacking, and observing employees. The document provides recommendations for companies to encrypt data, use firewalls and security software, and train employees to help prevent espionage. It stresses the importance of protecting social media data from competitors.

1. By Maria Thanbichler
Social Media in Marketing
MAR8PO067-2

2. 1.
General definition
2.
Areas of espionage
3.
Way to access information
4.
How avoid/prevent / overcome
5.
Conclusion

3.  Corporate
espionage is the process of
illegally and unethically obtaining
confidential information from other
companies to be able to gain a competitive
advantage
 It is most commonly associated with
technology-heavy
industries, biotechnology, aerospace, teleco
mmunications, transportation and engine
technology, automobiles, energy

4. The espionage take place in the following
areas of a company:
 Ideas
(products)
 Techniques (software, hardware)
 Processes
 Recipes
 Formulas

5. The espionage take place in the following
areas of a company:
 Customer
 Pricing
 Sales
 Marketing
 Strategies
datasets

6. 
Hacking systems

Social engineering (tricking of a person into revealing their

Dumpster Diving (refers to using various methods to get

Whacking (wireless hacking)

Phone Ease Dropping (listen secretly to the private

Observe/espionage the employees
password or other valuable corporate information)
information about a technology user; it involves searching
through trash or garbage looking for something useful)
conversation of others)

7.  Encrypting
data/emails/hard desk
 Use a firewall
 Installation of anti-virus and password
security software
 Catch up on new or possible employees
 Workshops for employees how to deal with
critical data at work/ in home office / at a
business travel

8. The protection of data in social media
networks of a company should be ranked on
the first, because otherwise competitors /
other nations can steal the ideas. That could
lead to a large loss of profit. But on the
other hand, nowadays it is important to
present your company in social media
networks to be available for a lot of people.

9.  http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=industrial-
espionage
 http://faculty.usfsp.edu/gkearns/Articles_Fr
aud/corporate%20espionage.pdf