What are sweeps? TSCM sweeps are detailed electronic and physical searches designed to locate electronic eavesdropping devices that have been positioned to gather either audio or video information and to pass it to those not authorised to receive it.
TSCM sweeps are carried out by specialists using highly specialised equipment designed either to detect the devices where they are hidden, or to detect the signals that they emit.
Who plants such devices? They can be planted by any one who has access to an area in which confidential information is likely to be discussed. They can be planted in adjacent rooms or spaces, carried into meetings, left in meetings or embedded in structures. Some of them have the capacity to lie dormant for many months, even years, before being activated. Such devices vary from the simple VHF radio device that can be bought from a high street ‘spy shop’ through to highly sophisticated devices utilising the state of the art in fibre optics and encryption.
Who is at risk? Any organisation that holds confidential discussions is at risk of eavesdropping. The stakes and therefore the temptations are often very high. For example, during merger and acquisition negotiations, what might prior knowledge of the other party’s ‘bottom line’ be worth to a negotiating party? Conceivably millions. The threat is real, as the finds of devices prove.
What are the emerging threats? The emerging threats are many. One such threat is in the field of non-electrical fibre optic devices, which are proof against some detection systems. Anther is in the field of mobile phone manipulation, whereby a target’s own mobile phone can be covertly adapted to turn it into a bug on demand. Another area is in the threat of PABX manipulation whereby the entire phone system of the organisation may be manipulated to allow an electronic intruder to listen in to conversations held in any room with a phone. CIG has solutions to all these threats and is actively developing new solutions to new threats as they emerge.
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We provide systems consulting to our customers, ensuring that they get the very best value for money from the systems that they employ, be then CCTV systems, access control systems, IT security systems or other more complex security systems.
Importantly, we examine the technology in the light of the non-technical security systems in place. For example, there is no point having a state-of-the-art CCTV system installed if the data protection act is not adhered to or if data is not recorded in a manner that makes it useable for evidential purposes. Likewise, there is no point having such a system if the management systems do not match the technical output from the technical systems.
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