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Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, refers to the systematic and unauthorized acquisition of sensitive business information. This practice typically targets trade secrets, proprietary operational data, and intellectual property belonging to competitors or other organizations. The information…

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Forms of economic and industrial espionage

Target industries

Information theft and sabotage

Agents and the process of collection

History

Use of computers and the Internet

Notable cases

Concerns of national governments

Competitive intelligence and economic or industrial espionage

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Industrial espionage

Nodes226
Edges225
Triples158
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00885
Components1

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Industrial espionage

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related to Origins · 25
Industrial espionage → Attributed, Britain, Britain's, British, China, Chinese, Economic, England, English, Entrecolles, Europe, European, Father Francois Xavier, France, Historical, Jingdezhen, Newcastle, Protests, Samuel Slater, Sheffield
related to 20th century · 16
Industrial espionage → American, Amtorg Corporation, April, BYTE, DEC LSI-11/2, East-West, European, Intel, Later, Soviet, Soviet CPUs, Soviets, USSR, West's, Western, World War
related to Agents and the process of collection · 12
Industrial espionage → Academics, Economic, Firstly, Historically, Individuals, Information, Japan, Moles, Outsourced, Secondly, Some, Such
related to France and the United States · 11
Industrial espionage → American, Between, During, France, France's Groupe Bull, French, French DGSE, IBM, In, Texas Instruments, The
related to Information theft and sabotage · 11
Industrial espionage → Although, Economic, Espionage, For, In, Information, Sabotage, TES, Test, That, The United States
related to Hilton and Starwood · 9
Industrial espionage → After, Denizen, Hilton, Hilton Worldwide, In April, Ron Klein, Specifically, Starwood, The Blackstone Group
related to Volkswagen · 9
Industrial espionage → General Motors, German, In, Jose Ignacio Lopez, Lopez's, Opel, Opel's, The, Volkswagen
related to Competitive intelligence and economic or industrial espionage · 8
Industrial espionage → CIS, Competitive, Competitive Intelligence Solution, Competitive Response Solution, CRS, Douglas Bernhardt, It, The
related to Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack · 8
Industrial espionage → DDoS, Estonia, It, May, Russian, Soviet, The, This
related to Forms of economic and industrial espionage · 5
Industrial espionage → As, Economic, In, It, Or

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espionage industrial information economic united intelligence states also may use chinese companies china corporate government national technology military secrets european

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Industrial espionageis athreat to any business whose livelihood depends on information.In recent years0.90text
theft of trade secretsinstance ofIt may describe activities0.80text
briberyinstance ofIt may describe activities0.80text
blackmailinstance ofIt may describe activities0.80text
technological surveillanceinstance ofIt may describe activities0.80text
ironworkers in Sheffieldinstance ofProtests by those0.80text
steelworkers in Newcastleinstance ofProtests by those0.80text
the Intel 3000instance ofSoviet CPUs required multiple chips and appeared to be close or exact copies of American products0.80text
DEC LSI-11/2instance ofSoviet CPUs required multiple chips and appeared to be close or exact copies of American products0.80text
computer databasesinstance ofspies and expanding programs directed at stealing information.The legacy of Cold War spying included not just the redirection of personnel but the use of spying apparatus0.80text
scanners for eavesdroppinginstance ofspies and expanding programs directed at stealing information.The legacy of Cold War spying included not just the redirection of personnel but the use of spying apparatus0.80text
spy satellitesinstance ofspies and expanding programs directed at stealing information.The legacy of Cold War spying included not just the redirection of personnel but the use of spying apparatus0.80text

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