Protecting Proprietary Information

Industrial espionage is becoming an ever increasing problem. Companies can spend millions of dollars on research and development costs, only to have the their ideas stolen by a competitor.

Most people don’t know it, but there is a group of individuals that specialize in competitive intelligence. They don’t advocate obtaining intelligence illegally, but do you want to bet your business on their word.

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). Check out their website at www.scip.org. They even have a yearly trade show.

Type in “competitive intelligence” on your browser and you’ll be surprised what you see.

Make sure your information security plan has provisions for shredding any sensitive information, no matter how outdated you think it is.