Security countermeasures are a vital component for protecting corporate assets and confidentiality.

Even the most vigilant security measures cannot rule out all incidents of illegal actions, clandestine or surreptitious efforts, and devices that can compromise sensitive information, privacy, and confidentiality.

Intellectual properties, strategies, marketing, pricing, advertising, R & D, mergers and acquisitions, human resources data, and executive travel plans are all sensitive information. How is your information disseminated, stored, and protected?

Despite all efforts to provide a privacy-aware work environment, companies must anticipate and protect against breaches of confidentiality. The most vigilant levels of security cannot totally preempt invasions of privacy, eavesdropping, and corporate espionage. A proactive approach and periodic assessments are essential to stay on top of these viable threats. Contact Merit Security or e-mail tscm@meritsecurity.com for more detail or information.

Merit has extensive experience performing Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM / debugging) sweeps. TSCM sweeps are not just for the benefit of finding a clandestine device but also to highlight Windows of Vulnerability in the containment of sensitive, proprietary, and confidential information.

Merit Expertise:

Business assessment of how proprietary information is disseminated, stored, and protected

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Sweeps

• Detection of an eavesdropping device or evidence of past attempts
• A complete physical inspection is conducted to search for eavesdropping devices that may be present-either active or inactive
• An evaluation is performed to determine whether conversations or activity can be overheard from outside of your offices
• The TSCM process includes a radio frequency (RF) analysis of the target areas to detect a RF bug

• Inspection of telephone instruments for the internal placement of clandestine devices
• Thoroughly checking telephone wiring for taps and bugs, or clandestine splices or modification to wiring
• Confirming the integrity of "spare pairs" (unused voice/data lines)
• Examining and testing of the AC electrical wiring for clandestine devices that could transmit room audio (conversations) over the electrical lines from room to room or office to office

• Establishing policies and procedures for protecting proprietary information.
• Training and testing
• Covert CCTV (Closed Circuit Television)
• Some of our services, processes and techniques are not mentioned for security purposes, and to better maintain performance and confidentiality

We encourage you to contact Merit Security at 650-366-0100 or e-mail tscm@meritsecurity with any questions or concerns. Contact us from a telephone outside of a potential target area. All issues pertaining to this service should not be discussed in an area in your company that may be compromised or considered a target area.