What are the methods of commercial espionage?

Direct means for commercial espionage to obtain intelligence

Corporate intelligence personnel take advantage of loopholes in the opponent's corporate defense, or take advantage of the interests, vanity, rebelliousness, and laxity of the opponent's employees to openly Or hide the identity of intelligence personnel and use direct means to obtain the opponent's trade secrets.

(l) Interview former employees of competitors, especially old retirees, who may obtain some trade secrets for a fee due to the sense of crisis or practical difficulties caused by inflation.

(2) Directly bribe current senior management and technical personnel, middle and lower-level cadres, skilled workers, general employees, temporary workers, and security personnel of rival companies.

(3) Take advantage of the relaxation and happy mental state of competitors' technical and managerial personnel when they are on business trips or sightseeing, select appropriate personnel to get close to technical and managerial personnel, and obtain trade secrets.

(4) Asking leading questions to the personnel of the other company at relevant meetings of societies and associations. Because the identity of the questioner is carefully disguised, sometimes it can achieve miraculous results.

(5) Talk to the opponent's employees using the bait of caring about their situation and promising and high employment.

(6) Take advantage of legitimate visiting opportunities to see, listen and ask more, or do not act according to the other party's requirements, or use special equipment to spy on business secrets.

(7) Pretend to accept a technology license and negotiate with competing companies to find out the other party’s technical trump cards.

(8) Poach competitors’ talents, perhaps in exchange for business secrets.

(9) Fake recruitment. Design false internal positions within the company based on the technical and operational information of competitors that you need to know, and then recruit them publicly. Sometimes specific people from competing companies will fall into the trap, and in order to get the position, they will inadvertently reveal the technology and operating secrets of the competing companies.

(10) Send people to work temporarily in competing companies. Use what you see and hear to spy on business secrets.

(11) Send people to work in competing companies for a long time. These people do not care about temporary gains and losses, but rather long-term latent interests. Due to long-term efforts, they have won trust and reuse. At this time, they either dig up major business secrets or engage in systematic sabotage work, which often leads to the collapse of competing companies without knowing it.

(12) Intimidation. Grasp the personal misdeeds, privacy and even criminal records of certain employees in competing companies, and use their fear of the company's knowledge to blackmail and obtain trade secrets.

(13) Telephone eavesdropping; intercepting and deciphering telex and fax contents; radio monitoring of mobile phone communications; using advanced technical means to penetrate the opponent's computer network or information database.

(14) Use special technical means to spy on competitors' technical products, and use special technical means to take photos and videos.

(I5) Organizing a robbery is an extreme method of commercial espionage, destroying the other party's factory, such as setting fire to take advantage of the situation.

Directly obtaining the trade secrets of competitors through the above means sometimes exposes executives to personal danger and legal liability. Therefore, companies have not yet provided various escape techniques and lawyer defense preparations for certain executives.