Kevin's Security Scrapbook: Business Counterintelligence - blog*spot

CBIA will be hosting South Africa?s first conference on business counterintelligence? September 17-19, 2012, at the Kwa Maritane Bush Lodge in the Pilanesberg, North West Province... One of the key aims of the conference is to involve and to provide decision makers, managers and business unit leaders with the insight to understand business counterintelligence and how it differs from other streams of information management and security practices.

Corporate information gathering is a fact of life, even more so during hard and tough economic times...

The conference will take participants on an eye-opening journey regarding information protection issues. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of the value added role counterintelligence plays in competitive strategy and the protection of business information.?

Conference Topics
? What is the scope of the business espionage and information theft threat to businesses;
? Non-cyber methods of information gathering and economic espionage;
? Social engineering, tradecraft and other psychological tricks used to penetrate a target company;
? The ?insider? threat and motivational factors;
? Importance of information security awareness training;
? How to protect sensitive data and high value employees;
? Countering electronic espionage in business;
? Technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) risk management;
? The evolving cyber threat. The cyberspace is now providing relative small scale operators the opportunity to become involved in business espionage and information theft;
? Background screening and vetting, pre-employment and existing employee screening;
? The dark side of social media and what it means for business;
? The threat of consumerisation and BYOD;
? Policies, procedures and guidelines on how to build an effective business counterintelligence capability;
? A corporate case study;
? Active dialogue session (Ask the Expert) ? An interactive brainstorming session to solve common challenges and to share innovative solutions;
? Technical security product demonstrations.

Source: http://spybusters.blogspot.com/2012/08/business-counterintelligence-conference.html

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