http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-company/corporate-trends/Corporate-espionage-on-the-rise-in-India/articleshow/6617591.cms By Shilpa Phadnis & Mini Joseph Tejaswi The Economic Times 24 Sep, 2010 BANGALORE: Corporate espionage is on the rise in the country, with the digital medium offering an extremely fertile ground for its perpetuation. An increasing number of companies are also hiring private detectives to keep tabs on both their employees and business partners. Detective agencies says they are flooded with strange requests from companies to plant spies in rival firms, to fish for confidential data, engineering designs, software codes or to manipulate rate contracts to favour their clients. "An entire gamut of corporate espionage is happening around us and it is a huge industry by itself," says cyber law expert and supreme court advocate Pavan Duggal. On an average, detective agencies get 5 to 10 requests a day for such services. The fee could range from Rs 30,000 to a few lakh of rupees, depending on the complexity of the job. "Such things are rampant and we get a lot of requests, though we do not entertain it as a matter of policy," says Ravi Kapoor, chairman of ACE Detectives. He says that usually a person is hired for the job who has access to passwords and other information. It could be a dataentry operator, security personnel or even a driver. "Hiring spies is prevalent in IT firms, especially where big tenders are underway ," confirms Manpreet Sidhu, head of Top Secret Detective Agency. [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Mon Sep 27 2010 - 00:07:36 PDT
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