Silent extraction: How to protect your business from invisible threats - Counter-Elicitation and the intelligence techniques every company should know
If your company operates internationally, handles sensitive IP, or plays a role in critical infrastructure you’re already a target. Foreign intelligence agencies and commercial rivals are no longer just hacking systems. They’re targeting your ...
If your company operates internationally, handles sensitive IP, or plays a role in critical infrastructure you’re already a target. Foreign intelligence agencies and commercial rivals are no longer just hacking systems. They’re targeting your people, because people are the weakest link in any network and the path to least resistance.
Using advanced conversational techniques known as elicitation, hostile actors can extract valuable information about your internal strategy, product development, supply chains, or decision-making processes without your employees ever knowing it happened.
From trade shows and conferences to M&A talks and informal social settings, this kind of intelligence collection is happening in real time, against governments and companies, across sectors like tech, defense, energy, pharma, and finance.
This keynote delivers deep, actionable insight into how your organization is exposed and how to build human resilience against unwanted intelligence gathering.
Key takeaways:
- How foreign intelligence services and competitors approach your people to gain inside access to business-critical information
- What kind of data is being targeted—and how a single conversation can compromise products, partnerships, or competitive advantage
- Concrete countermeasures to strengthen internal resilience, protect IP, and close the human intelligence gap in your security strategy.
This is not cybersecurity. This is human resilience.