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You should only contact us from a telephone outside of
the potentially compromised location! DO NOT call
from your office or home; use your cell telephone only
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Off-site meeting security surveys and inspections |
A company will often have an off-site
meeting with executives so they can concentrate on a
specific agenda away from the day-to-day office
routine. These meetings usually are held at a hotel,
resort or at a convention center.
The program frequently is a combined effort between
the company, a meeting/event planner and the hotel
convention staff. Adequate security is often lax
when an off-site meeting is held at a commercial
establishment. Their primary goal is to create a
pleasant environment for the attendees. Security
issues are not their primary concern.
An off-site meeting is an excellent opportunity for
an industrial spy to gather intelligence and
proprietary information. They identify the location
of the meeting rooms, the agenda, the speakers, the
topics to be discussed, and the decisions made. This
is the information that the spy needs to provide to
their client.
As the company is planning the event, so is the
industrial spy. A reservation clerk may provide a
list of the attendees and their room numbers. After
each session, the janitor may pick up all the papers
on the tables along with discarded paper from the
meeting rooms. While serving refreshments a waiter
may hide a transmitter under a table. A hotel
security officer may talk in the hotel bar about
any, or the lack of, special security arrangements.
The eavesdropper may have attended previous meetings
in the hotel and had monitored radio signals coming
from the public address system in each meeting room.
Using his monitoring equipment, he has identified
the ideal location in the hotel to set-up his
listening post if he installs a "bug". He may have
compiled a list of floors that receive the best
radio signals for each piece of equipment he intends
to use. It is an opportunity to eavesdrop using the
hotel or the event production crews' wireless public
address system; this is a "freebie".
To obtain maximum security for an off-site meeting,
the company should engage the services of a
professional Technical Surveillance Counter Measures
(TSCM) team at the preplanning stage. The team would
then coordinate the security efforts with the
company, the hotel staff and the event planner.
Several hours before the scheduled meeting, the TSCM
team should perform a physical sweep of the meeting
rooms and/or any "break out" rooms that will be
used. They would establish a "monitoring post" (MP)
in a nearby room, a service corridor, or outside the
building in a specially equipped van. They must be
close enough to hear low powered device i.e. a test
transmitter under 10 milliwatts from the podium. It
is critical that the monitoring site be as close as
possible to the podium.
When a device is actively broadcasting the signal
outside the meeting the TSCM team hears what was
being presented in the meeting .
At a recent meeting where sensitive proprietary
information was to be discussed, the hotel’s
audio/video technician stated that "his wireless
microphones would not broadcast much beyond the
parking lot."
And then there is the problem of cellular telephones
being carried into the meeting... |
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