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Ira Winkler 

 

Corporate Espionage by Ira Winkler  $14.95  + $5.00 Shipping     Seller: Norbert Zaenglein 317 E. Thurber Clay Center, NE 68933 (402) 762-5110   E Mail Seller

Insider Information On How Business Intelligence Is Gathered And How To Protect Your Company Secrets   Corporate Espionage Book:   Corporate Espionage: What It Is, Why It's Happening in Your Company, What You Must Do About It Author:  Ira Winkler Publisher:  Prima Cover Price:   $26.00 Format:  Hard Cover - 384 Pages Book Condition:  Like New Jacket Condition:  Like New Description:  Ira Winkler, a former analyst with the National Security Agency, contends that American companies lose billions of dollars each year through preventable information leaks. In Corporate Espionage, he shows how much of it is pilfered by unremarkable efforts--looking at memos, sifting through trash, peeking on desktops, or simply asking for it--and provides some advice to stop it. Additional highlights include a variety of illuminating anecdotes and an enlightening look at international subterfuge. All businesses, from multi-billion dollar corporations to $20,000-a-year mom-and-pop corporations, technically literate or not, are vulnerable to corporate espionage and every company is potentially under attack Synopsis NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! The theft of valuable information--from client lists to trade secrets--costs American businesses up to $10 billion per year. Security expert Ira Winkler exposes the secrets of such corporate espionage--and how to guard against it--in this fascinating and useful book, one no business owner can afford to be without. Publishers Weekly According to Winkler, a consultant and former analyst with the U.S. National Security Agency, the FBI has reported that industrial espionage costs American businesses anywhere from $24 billion to $100 billion annually. The theft of corporate secrets comes not just from a company's competitors but from foreign nations. With the end of the Cold War, a number of countries have been using their intelligence-gathering capabilities to obtain proprietary information from many of America's major corporations. Winkler notes that while computer hackers infiltrating companies' databases draw the lion's share of attention, most corporate espionage is carried on at a much more mundane level in which "spies" gather information through such methods as consulting public records or talking to employees after work. The "case studies" that Winkler includes provide a lively and informative look at the way actual companies have been "attacked" by outside parties. He devotes some space to the sort of hacker "who can find new vulnerabilities like a water witch with a divining rod" and closes by advocating numerous countermeasures that companies can take to protect their information, from simply having enough paper shredders on hand to acquiring sophisticated intrusion detection software that alerts overseers to computer break-ins. In his introduction, Winkler describes his book as "a safety manual for the information age"; in fact it is an admirable one, with lessons to be heeded within the corporate world. First serial to Inc. magazine; author tour. (June) More Reviews and Recommendations Biography Ira Winkler is a former analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA)—considered to be the most secretive of U.S. intelligence agencies. Now, as a consultant on information security and director of technology of the National Computer Security Association, he simulates and investigates industrial espionage and computer-related crimes. He has been called a "modern-day James Bond" by major publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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