What is Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM)?
What is TSCM?
TSCM specialists are employed to evaluate government facilities, corporate offices, personal residences, and even vehicles and planes to ensure they are secure from external actors trying to listen to sensitive conversations, protect against hacking computers, stop the capture of radio frequencies (cell phone traffic, wifi, etc.) to eliminate espionage activities.
Why Corporations Use TSCM Services
Corporations need to ensure the privacy of their employees, the protection of sensitive and proprietary data, and ensure negotiations are done fairly. Organizations routinely have cybersecurity policies enforced to ensure a secure and private electronic workspace is available for their use, but the physical workspace is often overlooked. Corporate espionage, in order to gain trade secrets or unfairly negotiate contracts, is increasingly an unfortunate reality of dealing with foreign actors in an interconnected global economy. Corporations employ Stealth Security Solutions to ensure that business is done fairly and securely across the globe.
Why Individuals Use TSCM Services
Celebrities, high-net-worth individuals, and public speakers and officials are unique targets of foreign espionage. These folks are high-profile targets for learning compromising information that can be used in blackmail operations and other nefarious activity. Stealth Security Solutions is employed to ensure their homes, vehicles, and office spaces are safe to conduct their lives free from prying eyes and ears.
Normal citizens also employ TSCM services when they are concerned with personal spying issues. In cases of stalking, divorce proceedings, and other domestic issues, TSCM services are employed to offer peace-of-mind to individuals that their homes, offices, and vehicles are safe spaces.
TSCM Audits Can Identify the Following:
Traditional Bugging Devices
Including but not limited to audio and video bugging devices, microphones, telephone taps, laser/IR listening devices, and GPS trackers.
Bluetooth, Cellular, and Wifi Eavesdropping Devices
Full spectrum (GSM-5G) cellular listening devices, wireless packet sniffing devices, and nefarious bluetooth devices.
Internet of Things "IoT" Threats
TVs, conference room equipment, and even break room appliances like refrigerators, microwaves, and more now come with audio and visual capture capabilities built in. These all represent points of vulnerability that hackers can exploit gather intelligence on your organization.
Vulnerabilities Open to Exploit
Both physical and virtual.
Mobile Device Compromise
Mobile phones with built in microphones and cameras present uniquely attractive attack points for bad actors.