Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost

Introduction

Christopher Burgess; Richard Power

Your Enterprise at Risk

Intellectual property is your enterprise’s lifeblood; is it safe or are you in danger of being put out of business because a predator has shed that lifeblood? We have found two profound but common misconceptions about intellectual property theft and economic espionage.

One of the great misconceptions is that the threat of economic espionage or trade secret theft is a limited concern—that it is an issue only if you are holding on to something like the formula for Coca-Cola or the design of the next Intel microprocessor. The many real-world stories included in this book illustrate the fallacy of thinking that this threat is someone else’s problem.

The other great misconception, ...