It is illegal for someone to place surveillance on someone without consent. However, many people use surveillance to spy on others. Businesses are significant targets for illegal and covert surveillance, as competitors and criminals try to gather trade secrets, future business plans and insider financial information from successful companies. Everyone has a right to privacy and sweeps and other counter surveillance measures can ensure that private information stays private.

Indicators that you may be suffering technical intrusion:

• Your confidential business or trade secrets are known by competitors
• Your activities are known when they should not be
• Technicians showing up to do work when no one has called them
• Confidential meetings and bids seem to be less than confidential
• Odd sounds or volume changes on your telephone
• and many more...

BPS staff will conduct visual, electronic and physical investigations of company systems that may be affected by technical surveillance measures. If security problems are found, investigators can use counter measures or can gather evidence so that the company can pursue legal action against those individuals involved in the security breach.

Essentially our team will:

• Conduct a spectral search for spatially radiating eavedropping devices.
• Examine all telephone instruments, ancilliaries and where appropriate, communications hubs and associated systems along with all wiring associated with the office or areas under inspection to ensure that these not been modified or exploited.
• Test the electrical mains supply to ensure that no eavesdropping devices are operating over the electrical supply or are being powered by mains voltage.
• Electronically search the fabric and furnishings of each office or area to detect and locate hidden capture equipment or switch over devices - these may have been introduced but could be quiescent at the time of the inspection.
• Optically search for video surveillance devices using laser refraction equipment considering the possibility of optical beam devices being operated from nearby properties.

An option is available to complete a three hour program of radio monitoring. This would be conducted discreetly during normal office hours to check the radio spectrum at a time when a covert attack might be most productive, i.e. when Board Meetings might be taking place.

To properly secure a single executive office for corporate or government clients we recommend at least six sweeps per year. These sweeps should be evenly spaced out on a quasi-random basis, including one annual comprehensive (three to seven day) sweep and an annual or quarterly comprehensive physical security audit.

A full report (photographs and comments on physical security, information security – document security and electronics, access to IT network, PDA’s – office practices, overlook, acoustics etc) is charged at half the daily rate. A full report is more beneficial if a TSCM sweep of offices and meeting rooms is required and can be used as a baseline for future sweeps; if the client requires a sweep of just a meeting room a short report (which is not as detailed as a full report yet still details observations and recommendations) would suffice and this would be included in the fee.