Technical Surveillance has become an extremely easy and popular method of gathering
sensitive, confidential, and personal information with equipment readily available to individuals
and organizations outside government agencies. The Technical Surveillance Counter
Measures (TSCM) services offered by Universal Protection Solutions are conducted by trained,
qualified technicians and investigators.

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 confidential information stays private.

Corporate espionage is being conducted by individuals, corporations and countries worldwide.
Persons involved will use any ethical, and in most cases, many unethical, means to acquire
data that will give them a competitive or financial advantage over their competition. Billions of
pounds worth of trade secrets are lost each year according to the Society of Competitive
Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). To gain an advantage over their competitors, many
corporations are hiring ex-military and government agents trained in the art of ‘intelligence
gathering techniques’. These skilled individuals mission is to spy on and obtain information
from competitors under the guise of competitive intelligence.

A Universal Protection Solutions TSCM survey will involve professional investigators who will
audit a company’s technical security. Investigators will conduct visual, electronic, and physical
investigations of company systems that may be affected by technical surveillance measures. If
any 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
technical security breach.