Cloak and dagger tactics hit the office
A growing number of businesses are vulnerable to competitors mounting organised campaigns to gather commercially sensitive information. While “industrial espionage” may not be a term associated with business in New Zealand, the country’s largest commercial private investigation firm says it has found bugs in corporate offices and spyware on company computers apparently sending information back to a rival business. Dan Thompson, business development manager at Paragon, says some of its corporate clients have a checklist of “counter-espionage” tasks that are carried out regularly, including sweeping the boardroom for bugs. “A lot of large organisations now have it in their annual to-do list - a regular once-a-year debugging - and some of them are prompted by information being leaked out.”
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