Information age espionage, debriefing a real-world, top-class cyber sleuth
Richard Lyle Power, Dario Valentino Forte · Computer Fraud & Security · 2007
A former US special agent specialising in cybercrime investigation tells of how companies do their best to cover up corporate espionage and insider theft. Jim Christy has 20 years of cybercrime investigation experience and is now Director of Futures Exploration for the Defence Cyber Crime Centre. He says: “Economic espionage and intellectual property theft is usually covered up for many good and cogent reasons by the private sector victims. I have seen entire corporate networks of over 100,000 systems completely compromised and hundreds of thousands of files exfiltrated.” In our profession, we usually cannot speak directly about the cases we are investigating or the projects we are working on. But there are some stories available in open source that highlight some of the important issues that our clients face day in and day out, year after year.