Damage Prevention - Damage Control

 
damage:
Noun
1. Harm or injury to property, person, company or organization resulting in loss of value.  2. The impairment of usefulness and ability to function. 3. Damages; money ordered to be paid as compensation for injury or loss. 4. Informal Cost; price, fine.

prevention:
Noun
1. The act of preventing or impeding. 2. A hindrance; an obstacle. 3. Stopping.

control:
Transitive verb
1. To reduce or prevent the spread of; control insects; controlled the fire by dousing it with water. 2. To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct. 3. To adjust to a requirement; control the flow of water. 4. To hold in restraint; check: struggled to control his temper. 5. regulate; control trading on the stock market. 
 

Situations can get ugly real fast.

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, TSCM, also known as sweeping and debugging, is a vital is part of a carefully planned and managed security program.

Damage control - How you react to a security incident or major corporate development.  That information could be very profitable for an enemy and very costly for you.

Spying and eavesdropping go back to the Old Testament 1400 BC, at least 3000 years ago.  Eavesdropping has never been easier.  With the rise of the Internet and the proliferation of Spy shops, bugging, wiretapping, and covert videotaping is only a mouse click and a credit card away.

Information theft has become one of the most targeted criminal acts in recent history.  Now more then ever has technology allowed for governmental, professional or personal information to be illegally obtained.

There's a new emerging threat waiting to pop over the horizon any minute.  The ICs and chips that are used in the manufacture of special equipment for police and intelligence agencies are becoming available to the commercial market.  Over 200,000 scanner owners are working to break the digital encoding of cellular phones. It's been documented that hackers have been researching Law Enforcement interception patents.  The critters and scumbags are soon to follow these developments if they're not spearheading them now.