Plain-English explainers on the disciplines that make up counterespionage, grouped by theme. Read in any order.
Counterespionage is the practice of detecting, preventing and defeating efforts to obtain confidential information through technical, human or behavioural means.
The difference between espionage, counterespionage and counterintelligence, explained plainly, along with how corporate and industrial espionage fit the picture.
What corporate and industrial espionage is, how it happens, who is at risk, and how organisations detect and reduce the threat to their sensitive information.
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, or TSCM, is the systematic inspection of an environment for unauthorised surveillance devices and the vulnerabilities that allow them.
An overview of covert listening devices, hidden cameras and other surveillance methods, how they work in general terms, and how they are detected.
How phones, laptops and connected devices can become surveillance tools, what is realistic versus myth, and the sensible response to genuine concern.
Credible indicators that information may be leaking or that surveillance may be in place, and the measured response, without the paranoia.
Insider threat is the risk that someone with legitimate access misuses it.
Behavioural intelligence applies behavioural science, credibility analysis and forensic linguistics to identify early indicators of deception, manipulation and misaligned intent.
Senior leaders attract risk that is rarely straightforward.
Cyber security protects data in systems.
Artificial intelligence is making surveillance smaller, smarter and harder to detect, and is creating new behavioural and deception risks.
How to vet a counterespionage, TSCM or behavioural provider: the red flags, the credentials that matter, and the checks every client should make before granting access.