IP-Theft,Prevention and Counter-attack.
Home Surveillance and Security Click on Course Invitation. But let us pause a moment and consider this: If you want to profit from getting many good new marketing ideas, to push your regular results to a higher level, it is recommended that you explore the following: Dan Kennedy's "Ultimate Information Entrepreneur Super Manual" Dan Kennedy’s "New Marketing, Direct Marketing & Success Super Conference" Dan Kennedy's "Lifetime of Secrets Bootcamp" Home-Study Course (Sponsored Links) Plagiarism, or the copying of information without acknowledging the author and without paying any dues, or the public broadcasting and making readily available of artistic productions like songs, music or films are the most common form of IP-Theft. Some web sites specialized in allowing people to access, download and share music, literature and images without paying the artists originators of their creations. Later on efforts were mounted to get them down from the Internet: the well known Napster site was forced to withdraw. IP-Theft is often referred to as the unauthorized appropriation of proprietary knowledge like copyrighted material, the use a trademark, or the violation of a patent, without requesting permission (which might be denied) and without paying any dues. In certain industries IP-Theft is a real drain of assets that leak illegally to unauthorized parties. The software industry alone was estimated to lose several billions of dollars each year to hackers and others forgers practicing piracy. But also the manufacturing industries, whose secrets may involve design details, Research and Development activities and specific production plans, can be deprived of sensitive information usable by their competition to put on the market counterfeit consumer goods, with only a fraction of the effort that was expended by the originators. Academic institutions raise the question of ethics when their students copy from the web the information and present it as their own. There are a many ways to steal the intellectual property of others besides this most commonly seen plagiarism. The act of passing as one’s own the ideas, images or writings of another, as it is or at most with slight paraphrasing, is the most commonly seen practice of IP-Theft within school settings. Amazingly it seems that most of the unauthorized downloading took place from military networks that in principle are believed to be the most well guarded repositories of sensitive knowledge, from the part of foreign secret services. The following (see: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/08/cio-magazine-on-ip-theft.html) is from "CIO Magazine on IP-Theft": "Chinese hackers successfully breached hundreds of unclassified networks within the Department of Defense, its contractors and several other federal agencies. One Air Force general admitted at an IT (information technology) conference last year that China had downloaded 10 to 20 terabytes of data from DoD networks." Note: The chief information officer (CIO) is a job title for the board level head of information technology within an organization. It is believed that a few clearly identifiable situations are particularly prone to suffer attacks from interested parties trying to perpetrate IP-Theft. Within commercial or industrial enterprises, the practice of outsourcing may be dangerous, especially to far away countries where laws may not cover IP rights. There one should presume that no secrets can be guarded. Another dangerous situation may involve employees about to leave for another job, who may indulge in taking with them sensitive and proprietary information, notwithstanding agreements of no disclosures that they may have signed when hired. To counter IP-Theft companies have to study how they should structure their own sensitive information and how to limit the access only to those in need to know. Specific formal procedures should be set up to deal with employees that intend to leave in order to make objective and complete analysis of the content of their computer using "forensically sound procedures", possibly by an external agency, in view of potential claims to be judged by courts. Guidelines are available in open websites to help analyze in a meaningful way if there are any signs hinting at suspicious behavior on the part of the employee in his way out, and to prepare incriminating evidence if issues of IP-Theft are raised later on. In particular, attention should be paid to assess the probability of proprietary data being taken by the employee either via e-mail or removable media. While the erection of new technological barriers to IP-Theft is required to support the wide dissemination of digital technologies, it is recognized that active repression should be employed to discourage and oppose IP-Theft practices. RESOURCES
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