TSCM, Technical Surveillance Countermeasures and Debugging, is the detection of devices used to spy on others and covertly collect information and communications. Used by competitors in business, surveillance is widespread in attempting to collect trade secrets, marketing plans and more. Sensitive information collected through surveillance devices can severely damage a business, and every organization should be using a reputable TSCM firm to conduct regular unscheduled sweeps for surveillance device detection, also called debugging.
What Spies/Competitors Want
If you operate a business, whether for profit or non-profit, there are competitors and others out there who want information about your business, products and services. Different studies yield different numbers because it’s impossible to quantify corporate espionage when companies are reluctant to talk about being victims. However, current estimates tell us that well over $100 billion in trade secrets are lost to corporate espionage annually. Spies and competitors may be attempting to capture:
- Marketing and new product plans
- Corporate strategies
- Manufacturing, technological operations
- Target markets and customer/client information
- Product designs, research and costs
- Alliance and contract arrangements: delivery, pricing, terms
- Company Websites
- Supplier information
- Merger and acquisition plans
- Financials, revenues, P&L, R&D budgets
- Marketing, advertising and packaging expenditures
- Pricing issues, strategies, lists
- Staffing, operations, org charts, wage/salary
If you operate a successful business or organization, you have secrets that others want. They will not walk in or call and ask you about them. They’ll take actions to get your secrets without your knowledge, then use what they gather against you.
How do they get your secrets?
The list of spy and bug devices is huge. Just go online and search with phrases like “spy cameras, phone taps, telephone bugs, gps tracking, surveillance devices, audio surveillance, and phone monitoring software.” There are readily available audio and video surveillance devices built into smoke detectors, clock radios, electric wall sockets, air purifiers, clocks, digital picture frames, and even “yard rocks!”
It would be nice to believe that our employees are all honest and that our competition isn’t trying to sabotage our business; but it isn’t the real world. Technology is rampant for stealing your business secrets, and you should be taking counter-surveillance actions to protect your business or organization.
Kimmons Investigative Services, Inc. is nationally known and respected for surveillance detection, countermeasures and debugging services. Protect your company or organization from spying by employing trained experts with state-of-the-art equipment.
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Surveillance Detection, Countermeasures & Debugging Training
While a great many firms, small and large, are on the Internet offering surveillance detection and debugging services, they are far from equal. It’s not difficult to throw money at advanced equipment, but it’s another thing to be properly trained in its use. Kimmons Investigation Services, Inc. expends the time and training budget to guarantee our clients are served by highly trained specialists. We send our countermeasures specialist to the best schools available:
- REI Academy – Research Electronics International manufactures state-of-the-art surveillance countermeasures equipment and provides training to assure expertise for those who use it, including:
- Basic facility concerns
- Acoustic / microphone threats
- RF and microwave threats
- Laser threats
- Infrared threats
- Carrier current threats
- Physical search procedures
- Electronic search procedures
- Use of detection equipment
- Legal issues and concerns
- And many other technical security topics
- Jarvis International – This company in Tulsa, OK provides extensive training not only to investigation firms like Kimmons Investigation Services, Inc., but also to government and law enforcement agencies. Their courses are designed for government and corporate technical security departments that have the responsibility of establishing policies and procedures to safeguard classified/proprietary information from unauthorized disclosures. They cover preventing technical penetration, defeating bugging devices if successfully installed, and detecting devices (performing bug sweeps). Students learn the capabilities and limitations of products designed to detect the various types of bugging devices. Also discussed are security devices and procedures for access controls and building secure conference rooms (Classified discussion areas).
Only the Best Countermeasures and Debugging Equipment
Illegal eavesdropping can lead to lost business, stolen trade secrets, and advantages forever lost to competitors. It is imperative that today’s organizations detect and remove all surveillance devices on a regular and unscheduled basis. While we provide the best training to our staff, we also employ state-of-the-art equipment in our TSCM (Technical Security Countermeasures) services.
Kimmons Investigation Services, Inc. has a well-earned reputation for sweeps of all types of spaces including private offices, conference rooms, entire hotels, conference/meeting centers, and anywhere else someone can eavesdrop with audio or video surveillance devices. This isn’t a small threat you can ignore, as the U.S. State Department recently reported that:
- More than 700,000 covert eavesdropping devices are sold every year.
- More than 6,500 incidents of corporate and industrial espionage occur every year with an economic impact exceeding $1.25 million.
So, what type of equipment does it take to assure privacy to our clients after a thorough sweep of their spaces?
Orion 2.4 Non-linear Junction Detector
A Non-Linear Junction Detector detects the presence of electronics, regardless of whether the electronic target is radiating, hard wired, or even turned off.
The ORION 2.4 quickly detects and locates hidden electronic devices and is designed for:
- Commercial security applications such as checking corporate board rooms or offices for unauthorized or hidden electronics
- Searching secure areas for hidden or prohibited electronics
- Searching for contraband cell phones or other electronic contraband in prisons
The ORION 2.4 locates hidden electronics in walls, floors, ceilings, fixtures, furniture, or containers. An antenna-mounted line-of-sight display lets the operator focus on the target while sweeping. The NEW ORION 2.4 transmits at 2.4GHz frequency for detecting small electronics such as SIM cards and cell phones.
REI CPM 700
The CPM-700 is a broadband receiver designed to detect and locate all major types of electronic surveillance devices including room, phone, body bugs, video transmitters, and tape recorders. Broadband receivers such as the CPM-700 provide a very important tool for professional sweep teams.
The CPM-700 is very effective for rapidly detecting and locating transmitted signals. The CPM-700 sweep kit includes all items necessary to conduct a professional sweep. There are several “imitations” of the CPM-700 on the market because of its success as a product. While some of these copies may be cheaper, they do not provide the frequency performance and sensitivity of the CPM-700.
Oscor Spectrum Analyzer
The OSCOR is a hand held spectrum analyzer with rapid sweep speed and functionality suited for detecting unknown, illegal, disruptive, and anomalous rogue transmissions over a wide frequency range. The OSCOR is the premier tool for:
- Communication Site Surveys
- RF Emissions analysis
- Wireless service installers and providers
- Security Surveys for eavesdropping protection
This is an expensive instrument that is not used by a great many companies offering surveillance detection, countermeasures and debugging due to its cost. Kimmons Investigative Services, Inc. provides the best detection with top-of-the-line equipment.
Tools and the Expertise to Use Them
Have you ever seen someone try to use a sophisticated tool or have one explained to them at Home Depot? Education is every bit as important as equipment resources, and Kimmons Investigative Services, Inc. provides the best of both to their surveillance detection, countermeasure and debugging specialists.
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