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Undercover operations can be classified as follows:-
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Industrial espionage |
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In the modern competitive commercial world that we live in today, there are increasing number of cases of industrial espionage that go on. Large multi-national mining corporations secretly attempting to obtain tendering information through subversive tactics, large automobile corporations attempting to obtain latest designs of its competitor before it is released which provides them with an advantage of releasing their own models with certain added features using some of the techniques used by the competitor and thus gaining a market advantage. Large corporations attempting to lobby the public policy decisions are influencing the politicians through phantom companies set up by industrial spies, etc. As a result of such industrial espionage cases, there has been an ever-increasing need to counter such spying attempt. This has been one of the reasons why there has been a bigger demand for corporate security consultants. These are investigators who skillfully and carefully, systematically and diligently carry out detailed investigations to uncover those who are behind the illicit act of industrial espionage.
Information as it exists today is no longer secure and confidential due to the availability of highly sophisticated and specialized electronic monitoring devises that are available in the market. Such equipment can monitor a conversation from a target premises, anywhere between 500 meters to across the globe with equipment ranging from an ordinary bug to the most sophisticated microwave resonating cavity bug. A perpetrator is able to achieve all of these without having to access the target premises. Information transmitted by a facsimile, internet or through a fibre optic telephone line can all be intercepted and monitored. Such is the vulnerability of information security in today's times that those who wish to succeed in their business ventures must ensure that their information secrets do not get into the wrong hands. |
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Employee theft investigations |
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Another prominent application of undercover operation is in the field of employee theft investigations.
At the conclusion of an employee theft investigation, the undercover operative would have identified the offender, gathered the necessary evidence to establish the guilt of the suspect identified and provide a detailed investigation report together with recommendations for the future, to avoid any future incidences of employee theft. |
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