Corporate Counterintelligence Assignment: Strategies to Protect Internal Data in Asian Business Environments, Singapore

Individual Assignment

Weightage: 30% of carry marks

Learning Outcome:

Analyse the market environment and business strategies within the context of Asia.

Instructions:

• You are encouraged to reflect and respond once for each forum based on the knowledge from the chapters.
• Cut-and-paste work directly from the internet or textbooks is not considered participation.
• Summarising and rephrasing original work are encouraged to avoid plagiarism.

Assignment Topic: Corporate Counterintelligence

According to Strauss (1999), corporate counterintelligence is the other side of competitive intelligence because it represents the process by which companies defend their internal information.

The classical counterintelligence process at all levels includes four steps (USMC, 2007, p. 1-5):

1. Develop a counterintelligence estimate
2. Conduct counterintelligence surveys
3. Develop the counterintelligence plan
4. Implement appropriate counterintelligence measures

Businesses can easily become targets of foreign intelligence organizations, competitors, or corporate spies. According to Steve Whitehead, a lifelong security expert in counterespionage, methods of espionage and motivational factors include (Bernhardt, 2003, p. 90):

• Trespassing
• Covert surveillance
• Electronic eavesdropping and bugging
• Trash collection
• Burglaries
• Blackmail and bribery
• Stealing of documents
• Insider threat – recruitment of a staff member or infiltration of an agent

Discussion Questions:

1. What do you understand about counterintelligence?
2. How has your organisation protected its internal information from competitors?
3. Describe strategies or action plans to counterintelligence at your organisation or any company you have selected.

Note:

• You may use links from the internet as sources or refer to lesson notes.
• Do not forget to include references at the end of your work.

Deliverables:

• Prepare a 3-page submission (no more than 3 pages, excluding cover page and reference page).
• Follow the format below:

Formatting Guidelines:

• List: Student Name, Matric No., and Section
• Font type: Arial
• Font size: 12
• Line spacing: 1.5

Assessment Criteria:

You must demonstrate the ability to:

• Analyse
• Synthesise
• Evaluate the topic of discussion.