Secrets stolen, fortunes lost : preventing intellectual property theft and economic espionage in the 21st century /

The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to top $250 billion annually and also costs the United States approximately 750,000 jobs. The Internationa...

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Main Authors: Burgess, Christopher
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Power, Richard
Published: Syngress ; Elsevier Science [distributor],
Publisher Address: Rockland, Mass. : Oxford :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781597492553
Summary: The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to top $250 billion annually and also costs the United States approximately 750,000 jobs. The International Chamber of Commerce puts the global fiscal loss at more than $600 billion a year. Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost offers both a fascinating journey into the underside of the Information Age, geopolitics, and global economy, shedding new light on corporate hacking, industrial espionage, counterfeit
Carrier Form: 1 online resource
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781597492553
1597492558
9780080558806
0080558801
1281273368
9781281273369
Index Number: HV6773
CLC: F713.51
Contents: Your Enterprise At Risk; The Tale of the Targeted Trojan; When Insiders and/or Competitors Target Business; Intellectual Property; When State Entities Target Business? Intellectual Property; When Piracy, Counterfeiting and Organized Crime Target Business; Intellectual Property; Virtual Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Economic Espionage; Elements of a Holistic Program; Case Study: Cisco's Award-Winning Awareness Program; Case Study of A Bold, New Approach in Awareness and Education Meets An Ignoble Fate; Case Study--The Mysterious Social Engineering Attacks on Entity X; Personnel Secu