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Industrial espionage threatens Austria

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Industrial espionage is threatening not only single companies, but also the credit rating of whole business location, said Ronald Reiter of the office for the protection of the constitution in Burgenland.

The szenario changed fundamentaly since break down of the iron curtain in 1989, but according to the french chief of secret service Pierre Morrion: "In business we will stay rivals forever" no matter of EU or globalisation.

A study of the public accountants of KPMG say an amount of loss for germany in 1998 of 7.5 billion euros. The german Federal Intelligence Service (BND) say for the same year 12.5 billion euros, which may be a little bit influenced by its own goals.

NSA Field Station F83 Menwith Hill, Yorkshire

60 to 70 percent of companies settled in sience and technology parks are potential targets of industrial espionage. Also research insitutes, like the advanced technical college in Eisenstadt, especially because their students have to do some terms in foreign countries.

Generally you can say, that data security is becoming more and more an advantage of location.

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	Article in austrian online newspaper "Der Standard" (german)
	Curatorship secure Austria (board of trustees)

In case of doubt the management is liable A security study of Silicon.de show that IT security measures are still inapropriate.

Using chipcards in companies Company cards with digital signature offers more security and allow access to many applications. The austrian commerce chamber is equipping its staff with signature chipcards of a.trust. Till end of november 2004 were the first 800 cards enrolled.

Industrial espionage threatens Austria Industrial espionage is threatening not only single companies, but also the credit rating of whole business location of Austria, said a member of the office for the protection of the constitution.

Windows Server 2003 is ISIS-MTT certified Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is vested with ISIS-MTT-Seal. This is a initative of the german ministry of economics and labour for a mandatory standard for signatures, secure e-mail and secure document handling compliant to the requirements of eGovernment-applications.

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