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Protecting Your Most Critical Resources

Abstract

This chapter includes information on how to determine what your most critically important resources and information are. This includes Trade Secrets and any information or resources that, if compromised, could have an adverse impact on the company and its business viability. The key is to focus your business espionage countermeasures on the most critically important resources and information and not try and protect everything.

Key words

business spying

business espionage

countermeasures

business impact

consequence

cost benefit

value

TRIPS

trade secret

critical

information protection program

Focus ...

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