
This awareness module introduces industrial espionage and counter espionage concepts, contrasts competitive intelligence with illegal practices, and explains open vs sensitive information and how to protect the company.
Explore real-world cases of industrial espionage, from state and private actors to individuals, illustrating motivations and consequences such as fines, reputational damage, and diplomatic disputes.
Examine the business risks of industrial espionage, including fraud, abduction, and data or equipment theft, and assess their impact on reputation and competitive advantage, plus key threat actors and motivations.
Explore OSINT, deep web, and dark web sources, and study technical, human, and operational sensors, including social engineering, spearphishing, and computer intrusions, with real-world examples like Stuxnet and APTs.
An attacker weighs interests, difficulty, and risk (ADR) to assess information value and guide awareness and defense against industrial espionage.
Explore industrial counter espionage methods across humint, sigint, opsint, and osint, focusing on the human, technical, digital footprint, and operational sensors to detect and deter espionage.
Explore how industrial espionage uses HUMINT to extract information through four phases—environment, approach, recruitment, and end of relationship—driven by money, ideology, compromise, and ego.
Examine SIGINT through mass interception and proximity interception, detailing legal frameworks, telecom and private sector backdoors, IMSI catchers, metadata versus content, and PRISM NSA practices.
Explore how OSINT reveals a digital footprint through open sources, deep web, and dark web, with examples like Strava and Google Maps showing controlled and uncontrolled exposure.
Examine how OPSINT uses sensor-based operations and insider exposure to illustrate physical intrusion, surveillance, and phishing attacks that exploit human factors.
Discover countermeasures to HUMINT threats by recognizing suspicious social encounters, phishing attempts, and unsolicited contacts; learn steps to identify, assess, and report potential human intelligence risks.
Protect communications by disabling unneeded connections, using encrypted messaging and email, and browsing with Tor or VPN; keep work and personal devices separate.
Discover open sources and countermeasures to prevent an uncontrollable digital footprint by configuring privacy settings, monitoring data sharing, and removing unwanted online appearances.
Implement countermeasures for operational sensors by securing devices and encrypting media. Shred confidential documents, report anomalies, and practice strong passwords or password managers.
This second module is intended for everyone, employees, managers, security managers, DPOs or simply anyone who wants to understand in detail how an industrial espionage operation works and better understand the risks associated with industrial espionage and good practices to protect their organization, employees and data.
This training, based on a wide experience in the public (military, foreign affairs) and private (banking, cybersecurity) sectors, gives a high level overview of the risks mentioned illustrated by concrete examples, the definition and examples of risks and threats, the different sensors (including psychological aspects and prejudices) used to collect sensitive information (legal and illegal) as well as the way an attacker thinks when defining his plan to access confidential information about a targeted company.
It takes up one by one the different sensors studied in the first part of the training module with the help of videos, notably from the film "Les Patriotes" by Eric Rochant for a more interactive training. Each step of the psychological and human manipulation, each technical and operational method of information retrieval are precisely detailed.
The second part takes up these different means of acquisition, this time associating the methods and tools to detect these operations and to protect oneself against them.
This module can be used as a training and awareness supplement within the framework of a company program.
HUMINT - SIGINT