economic espionage
Stealing trade secrets
Economic espionage is the covert gathering of trade secrets, proprietary information, or confidential business intelligence for the benefit of a foreign government or competitor.
It includes hacking, bribery, and recruiting insiders.
Distinguished from ordinary corporate spying by its state-sponsored dimension: The engineer was convicted of economic espionage after passing chip designs to a foreign intelligence service.
- hackingInfiltrating protected digital systems
- data breachUnauthorized access to protected information
- trade secretsProtected commercial knowledge
- state secretsProtected government information
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
corporations · intellectual property · prosecution · misappropriation · social engineering · shell companies · front companies · intellectual property law · competitive advantage · defense contractors · confidential information · startups · geopolitical strategy · trade war · market dominance · covert operations · national security · research institutions
economic espionageknowledge sharing
Transferring expertise between people
transparency · public disclosure · corporate transparency · licensing agreements · joint ventures
economic espionagemilitary intelligence
Wartime information gathering
counterintelligence · signals intelligence · counterterrorism
economic espionagepublic disclosure
Revealing information openly
market research · business intelligence · freedom of information · due diligence · reverse engineering
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