Commercial Espionage: 79 Ways Competitors Can Get Any Business Secrets [Paperback]

Boris Parad (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1997 | ISBN-10: 096580500X | ISBN-13: 978-0965805001 | Edition: 1

Every business has valuable proprietary data, such as customer lists and research reports. This book succinctly describes corporate intelligence collection techniques including data theft, blackmail, and hiring away of employees. It also discloses industrial espionage countermeasures, which help trade secret owners avoid costly data theft lawsuits, loss of business, and negative publicity.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Attorney Parad reports that commercial espionage costs the United States $100 billion each year, and his slim volume seeks to inform the unwary in an attempt to stem that tide. In the first third of the volume, he lists 79 ways a company can lose its competitive edge by such espionage techniques as trash evaluation; the last two-thirds outline how to stanch the flow. Much of this would be apparent to anyone with common sense, but some points demonstrate expertise, and the author's checklist of basic negotiation rules and comments on international travel security are well made. Parad's law firm specializes in economic espionage countermeasures, and the book feels like the summary of a workshop on the topic, with a strong international flavor. The digest format and frequent examples will appeal to business readers more than the dull textual format of Ira Winkler's less expensive Corporate Espionage (Prima: 1997), which covers much of the same ground. Intellectual property rights and their protection are somewhat of a hot topic these days, and Parad's book is an acceptable purchase for public and academic libraries.?Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Technical Coll. Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

(Herald Tribune, February 13, 1998) Since the end of the Cold War, commercial espionage has taken on a new and increasing important role. This is due to international trade and commerce which have become far more extensive than ever and are growing everyday. In this competitiveness, many global corporations have been searching for products with a brass ring attached to them, so to speak. To our knowledge, this is one of the first and one of the clearest explanations yet of how competitors can attack a company. The major focus of the book is a blueprint describing how weaknesses in a business can be exploited in a competitive environment. How this occurs and how to prevent it is well explained and outlined in a trade paperback. While the cost of this 145-page trade paper back is high, it is well worth it to businesses and executives wishing to protect proprietary information.

(Marketing News, December 1997) Commercial Espionage: 79 Ways Competitors Can Get Any Business Secrets provides a blueprint showing how weaknesses can be exploited and outlines practical steps to prevent competitors from learning commercial secrets.

(Corporate Counsel's International Advisor, June 1998) Makes for very interesting reading and certainly lends support to the principle that good intelligence information can be gleaned from sifting through quite legal sources to pull together a pointilistic picture of a competitor's operations. -- 5001

Makes for very interesting reading and certainly lends support to the principle that good intelligence information can be gleaned from sifting through quite legal sources to pull together a pointilistic picture of a competitor's operations. -- Corporate Counsel's International Advisor, June 1998

Commercial Espionage: 79 Ways Competitors Can Get Any Business Secrets provides a blueprint showing how weaknesses can be exploited and outlines practical steps to prevent competitors from learning commercial secrets. -- Marketing News, December 1997

Since the end of the Cold War, commercial espionage has taken on a new and increasing important role. This is due to international trade and commerce which have become far more extensive than ever and are growing everyday. In this competitiveness, many global corporations have been searching for products with a brass ring attached to them, so to speak. To our knowledge, this is one of the first and one of the clearest explanations yet of how competitors can attack a company. The major focus of the book is a blueprint describing how weaknesses in a business can be exploited in a competitive environment. How this occurs and how to prevent it is well explained and outlined in a trade paperback. While the cost of this 145-page trade paper back is high, it is well worth it to businesses and executives wishing to protect proprietary information. -- Herald Tribune, February 13, 1998

The price tag's hefty for a 143-page paperback but serious executives and any interested in issues of corporate intelligence may be willing to pay the price for a unique guide which imparts the basics on little-discussed subjects. From hiring away key employees to phony job interviews and avoiding lawsuits, this delves into everything from proprietary information protection issues to how competitors can obtain business secrets. -- Reviewer's Bookwatch, November 1997

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Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: Global Connection, Inc.; 1 edition (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096580500X
• ISBN-13: 978-0965805001
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #782,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)