GEOPOLITICS3 August 2026· 16 min
Defensive Economic Intelligence: Protecting Strategic Assets in 2024
As economic espionage costs exceed $600B annually, organizations must deploy systematic defensive intelligence frameworks. This premium guide delivers a battle-tested methodology with quantified risk matrices, three concrete case studies, and 12 prioritized strategic recommendations.
SOURCES
[1]Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property — IP Commission Report 2022 (ipcommission.org)
[2]EUIPO — The Economic Cost of IPR Infringement in the EU, 2023 (euipo.europa.eu)
[3]FBI Economic Espionage Unit — Annual Report to Congress, 2023 (fbi.gov)
[4]Ponemon Institute — Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, IBM Security (ibm.com/security)
[5]CERT National Insider Threat Center — Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, 7th Edition (Carnegie Mellon University SEI, 2022)
[6]RAND Corporation — Estimating the Value of Trade Secret Theft, 2022 (rand.org)
[7]ASIS International — Security Management: State of the Profession Survey 2023 (asisonline.org)
[8]U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center — Best Practices in Supply Chain Risk Management, 2023 (dni.gov/ncsc)
[9]Verizon — Data Breach Investigations Report 2023 (verizon.com/dbir)
[10]U.S. Federal Trade Commission — Non-Compete Clause Rule, April 2024 (ftc.gov)