Cyber, conventional and unconventional (TEMPEST) espionage techniques targeting trade secrets, mains infrastructure or even weaponized military bases have significant financial and competitive consequences for many businesses, government agencies and corporations.
Organizations victimized by these assaults on their intellectual properties have been found to experience major disruptions in their business plans/operations, loss of competitive advantage, erosion of customer/investor confidence and the costly remediation of damages attributable to these illicit activities.
Nowadays, the most widespread methodology for cyber infiltration employed by hacking entities is the impersonation and use of personal credentials to gain access to corporate IT infrastructure, download sensitive and lucrative data, and use this information for fraudulent monetary gains.
The intricate nuances of computer, network and corporate surveillance showcase that human beings constitute the most significant threat to corporate security and safeguarding trade secrets. Thus, effective cybersecurity must begin with initiatives that target the individuals who utilize these information technologies.
Nevertheless, the esoteric field of TEMPEST espionage puts forth a new, highly convoluted field of eavesdropping that confounds linear human logic. Even though most commercial enterprises will not have to lose sleep over TEMPEST leaking emanations, certain governmental and military institutions will have to consider the possibility of air-gap covert channels occurring in their facilities and being used by malicious entities for the purpose of monitoring, eavesdropping and hacking.
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