GEOPOLITICS24 May 2026· 16 min
Defensive Economic Intelligence: Protecting Strategic Assets in 2024
As economic espionage costs exceed $600B annually, organizations must deploy structured defensive intelligence frameworks. This premium analysis delivers a battle-tested methodology, quantified threat vectors, and prioritized countermeasures drawn from real-world cases.
SOURCES
[1]FBI & National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) — 'Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace' (2023 Update)
[2]IBM Security — 'Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023', Ponemon Institute / IBM X-Force
[3]ENISA — 'Threat Landscape 2023: Supply Chain Attacks', European Union Agency for Cybersecurity
[4]Lex Machina — 'Trade Secret Litigation Report 2023', LexisNexis Legal Analytics
[5]IP Commission — 'The Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property' (2017, 2022 Update), National Bureau of Asian Research
[6]Mandiant — 'M-Trends 2021 & 2023 Special Report', Google Cloud Security
[7]RAND Corporation — 'Countering State-Sponsored Corporate Espionage: Enterprise Preparedness Assessment' (2023)
[8]ASIS International — 'Global Security Report 2023: Economic Espionage and Trade Secret Protection'
[9]FS-ISAC — 'Annual Intelligence Report 2023: Threat Intelligence Sharing Outcomes'