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Awareness Briefs
The purpose of this brief is to highlight some of the computer security
issues that impact upon individuals and organizations who rely more and more on
information technology to conduct business. The vulnerability of Canadian
organizations to acts of economic espionage can be reduced through timely
information about computer security issues and the adoption of computer
security practices. - June 1999
The purpose of this brief is to highlight some of the economic security
issues that impact upon individuals and organizations who conduct international
business. The vulnerability of Canadian businesspeople to acts of economic
espionage can be reduced through timely information about the practice of
economic espionage in the international marketplace and the adoption of
personal security practices. - June 1999
This brief is published as part of CSIS’s national Liaison/Awareness
Program. Through this program, the Service seeks to establish ongoing dialogue
with organizations, both public and private, concerning the threat posed to
Canadian interests by those engaging in computer-based attacks or by foreign
government involvement in economic espionage. - June 1999
Commentary Series
  ISSUE No. 59:
ECONOMIC / COMMERCIAL INTERESTS AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
In this third in a series (see #32 and #46)the author focuses on the role of
intelligence services in protecting and pursuing a state's economic/commercial
interests, and on how Western governments are beginning to approach this issue
since the end of the Cold War. In particular, the author addresses the
provision of economic intelligence to government decision-makers, and the
future of the relationship between economic interests and intelligence
services. - July 1995. Author: Mr. Samuel Porteous[Full Text]
ISSUE No. 46:
ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE (II)
In his second paper in a series, the author moves the discussion of economic
espionage forward from his earlier Commentary #32, and provides an
overview and analysis of the current state of the debate on economic espionage.
July 1994. Author: Mr. Samuel Porteous[Full
Text]
ISSUE No. 32:
ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE
An analysis of the extent of the problem of economic espionage and its
impact on Canada. The discussion concludes with the arguments for and against
government involvement in economic espionage. May 1993. Author: Mr. Samuel
Porteous [Full Text]
ISSUE No. 19:
INTELLIGENCE NEEDS OF NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES IN THE 1990s
In the wake of the Cold War, newly industrializing countries that previously
depended on a supply of technology from either Western or communist allies are
now being forced to look elsewhere. The author predicts that many NICs will
begin to use their intelligence services to gain access to restricted
technologies and international commercial intelligence. Mar. 1992. Author: Dr.
R. Henderson[Full Text]
[Counter-Intelligence][Economic and Information Security]
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