Phil Muncaster of The Register interviewed via email Verizon manager Ian Christofis after the 13th annual Info-Security Conference in Hong Kong.
““In my experience, a number of foreign companies – for example US-based or Taiwan-based firms – that are manufacturing in China have particular concerns about loss of IP such as industrial designs from their business units based in China, due to employees leaking information,” he clarified in a follow-up email to The Reg.“
Mr Muncaster quoted Forrester principal analyst John Kindervag that user education and awareness training are less effective than to design and strictly enforce access controls on a need-to-know basis.
Read Mr Muncaster’s The Reg article here.
What can be done?
- Although it is different for each industry and within each industry per company, there are some general rules that at least should be checked whether they apply or not. Therefore IP Dragon is constructing some meausures against this dirtiest of secrets, not only to unmask and expose, but more importantly to avoid the problem all together for as far as possible. So stay tuned.