If you run a business, whatever the size, then confidentiality is a vital component to maintain, to protect against hacks, leaks, and any other security issues.
Industrial espionage is big business, and moral, ethical, or legal issues aside, one of the most cost-effective activities on the planet.
There are a number of governments, companies, institutions, and individuals worldwide who require TSCM surveillance countermeasures as they may have discovered electronic eavesdropping equipment in their buildings and want to combat this. In other words, they are being spied on with the use of bugs…
‘Bugs’ are becoming more popular, easier to purchase, and therefore more sophisticated than ever, and so if you are in the business to protect sensitive information, then you need to ensure you have the right TSCM (Technical Surveillance Counter Measures) equipment to ensure what is private, stays private.
Because practically anyone can set up different forms of surveillance equipment to spy on your business proceedings.
Bugs are extremely small, can be hidden practically anywhere, and aren’t very visible – however, they may send out radio frequencies or RF.
Find the RF, and you’ll find the bug…. Alas, the modern business environment is a mass of RF traffic that is not clandestine, sorting the wheat from the attack is a very complex procedure.
Most surveillance equipment, such as electronic listening devices, can be found eventually. Still, the process can be sped up and be far more thorough by sweeping for them with a number of extremely hi-tech equipment that is now readily available in the marketplace.
To prevent all technical intrusion, TSCM devices are used to discover electronic eavesdropping devices that can create security hazards or weaknesses for your business – whatever business you are in.
Many surveillance listening devices transmit information in the form of data, voice, or video and do so by using radio waves, and thus, a common way of search for this form of eavesdropping is with a radio frequency (RF) receiver.
Suppliers of TSCM products, including Shearwater, can provide government level counter-eavesdropping support with devices that include RF receivers to help with these sweeps.
This type of detector will know that if anything is emitting a radio signal..
However, the device may have been turned off at the time the sweep is being conducted with the radio frequency detector, so to check with the surveillance countermeasure called a non-linear junction detector which can help you search for semi-conductor electronics.
Corporations use their security personnel to use sophisticated equipment to sweep their meeting rooms and other essential rooms, which could harbour bugs. This is a task to both defend their Intellectual Property and also as a Due Diligence procedure.
Shearwater not only has RF receivers but also supply bug detection which can also find hidden wireless cameras, audio bugs as well as Wi-Fi signals, and illicit mobile phones. The belief is a holistic approach is essential with wide-ranging defensive technical disciplines.
TSCM sweeps should be part of your company’s security housekeeping before any meeting, and carried out regularly, not just when you are suspicious…
There will be times when the specialist countersurveillance equipment is out of your league, and you need to call in the specialist security company who knows exactly how and what you need to get rid of any nasty listening pest…
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