When your competitor decides to hire a “soldier of fortune” type company to expose and discredit your business, as a business owner or manager, you need to contact help.
Let’s say your competitor wants the fastest and dirtiest way of discrediting your business in order to get ahead in the same market, without earning. Consider this possibility as similar to money laundering, as passed from marketing company to subcontractor, to subcontractor and hard to tail. Any marketing company that promises to get quick fix results, sometime behind the scene this is done in an orthodox way. Good marketing even for a not so good company, takes time.
The unorthodox company will use any means possible to systematically data mine and gather information on you. A Conspiracy theory may be implemented. They may create false information by fake reviews, fabricate /twist mislead honest information, or other means possible to expose your company in an unfavorable way to the media.
To speed things up, as well as bumping up their charges, a spy agency (or shall we say data mining company) is retained. The 3rd party spy agency sends technicians disguised as medical staff, phone techs, HVAC techs, utility employees, or any uniformed dress personnel that ‘fit in.’ The techs really know what they are doing, as this is very serious business that pays well.
The technicians are able to work within the environment without ever being noticed. They expertly install listening, recording, video, as well as any other motion device designed to collect data in ‘real time.’ When the technicians have completed their assignment, all forms of communication within your business, whether verbal between physicians, business, and any other staff, are being monitored when they are actually happening. The office building is totally compromised. The IT personnel are clueless because this does not affect their job.
There are actually spies who are experts in infiltrating a particular profession. An example is such as the medical field since these medical groups tend to earn high revenue. It doesn’t matter how, who, or if they are able. It’s a matter of when. Once employed, these spies will succeed. Secret medical malpractice possibilities could be questioned by legal counsel and insurance carriers involved with litigation, when presented. Several months’ history and present evidence will be a very damaging mistake of miscarriages that will not be confidential. How about that deadly staph infection?
The best of the best make mistakes.
Some malfunction takes place, such as your phone clicking, lost or dropped calls, static or rerouting to a different number, etc. and suspicions start to arise involving other matters as well. Your alert feelings are a warning of something wrong. This is the point when you should call for a Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM) Sweep. Chances are you are right. Do not openly express your suspicion that you may be compromised. Instead, go off site and discuss this with one other key colleague and decide on the appropriate action to take. Remember if you suspect, consider the worst and use considerable caution not to tip off the spy watching. When we catch them, we like to see the surprised look on their face.
Exposing your thoughts in the wrong way will result in the possibly of never knowing who the suspect attacker is. When the identity is unknown, the door for reoccurrence will always be open and that same spy may return at a future time.
If a TSCM Sweep is done correctly within some state laws, there is a chance of recovering your costs for our services. If you feel your organization might be compromised, don’t hesitate to have a bug sweep performed discreetly. You never know who is listening.
