Confidential meetings, discussing or presenting an offer, organising a tender strategy analysis, planning a new product, board meetings. Events that are extremely important in the life of a company are the situations most prone to information leakage.
Note that installing an eavesdropping device is sometimes as simple as putting a plug in a socket, but tracing it is unfortunately not so easy. This is why it is so important to secure workplaces and meetings.
Regular preventive eavesdropping tests will help to ensure that premises remain secure. It also has the advantage of minimising the risk of you being bugged in the office at the most important moment. This should be a regular part of your workplace hygiene especially before key conversations. It is also a good habit to introduce and follow procedures for controlling access to selected rooms. Putting procedures in place is not enough, you should also adhere to them consistently.
What should raise your suspicions?
- New items have appeared in the office, but no one knows how they got there. Typical items to watch out for include clocks, signage on the walls, radios and speakers, picture frames and lamps.
- White dust was spotted on the floor next to the wall – this may indicate that a microphone or video camera may be hidden nearby.
- An outsider has remained in an important place unaccompanied by an office employee, or has gone to an unauthorized place under pretext.
- You notice slightly displaced furniture and no one knows why. A popular place to install a wiretap is behind or inside furniture.
- Outsiders, or worse, competitors, know your confidential business or professional secrets – a clear signal that you may have a hidden wiretap in the office.
Are you worried about being bugged in your office?
What should you do if you are concerned that you have a wiretap in your office? Start by discreetly inspecting your surroundings, especially items that have appeared in them during the period of heightened concern. Learn what typical wiretaps can look like in our other article “What are the types of wiretaps?”
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