- Surveillance and corroboration
- Penetration testing
- Research and analytics
- Deception and exploiting trust
- Background checks on slow days
All experiences
Did Competitive Intelligence
What I did
What I achieved
- Had seven different personas with perfectly crafted legends and almost kept my sanity
- Found a mole in a client’s sales department and brought him to justice
- Investigated a couple of embezzlements
- Gained 4 kg watching people do nothing exciting
- Sorted a lot of garbage
What I learned
- How to think like a bad guy: seeing liabilities, opportunities, attack vectors and how to counter them
- How to do open-source intelligence (OSINT), gather/hoard and analyze information
- How deeply unprotected we all are on a physical level, and how often we focus on cybersecurity and forget that concierges can be bribed
- You always have to say “competitive intelligence” instead of “corporate espionage” for legal reasons