Security Education, Awareness and Training: From Theory to Practice

Take advantage of your security responsibilities in providing a variety of security items of interest to your employees. This appendix includes various items that can be used for creating pamphlets, general and specific handouts at security presentations, and items that can be customized to fit within an organizational or security-specific newsletter. For some of the longer items, consider breaking them down into smaller sections for a newsletter, or use the entire item for a pamphlet. During your security presentations, you can also take sections of various items and revise them, if desired, for individual handouts.
Topics in this module discuss methods that foreign intelligence services, foreign corporations, and other intelligence collectors use to obtain protected information of both a military and civilian nature.
Some of these methods are entirely legal. We don't distinguish between legal and illegal methods, because the same foreign intelligence services, corporations, and other intelligence collectors frequently employ both legal and illegal methods in a coordinated effort. Both types of methods can have the same damaging result loss of a technological edge in either military weapons or the global marketplace.
Moreover, the distinction between legal and illegal is itself sometimes questionable. For example, there is no law against stealing discarded documents from your organization's dumpster or from a trash container outside your home. Until 1996, the United States did not even have a law against industrial espionage.
In the spy trade, elicitation is...