Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

The Watergate scandal is an unforgettable example of a threats we still face today known as “technical surveillance", commonly called “bugging”. With today’s sophisticated technical surveillance equipment your communications could easily be compromised without your knowledge or awareness.

Corporate espionage in the global marketplace is a very real threat which is constantly increasing. It may be as simple as stalking or intrusions into your private affairs, or as serious as kidnapping and extortion. Recently, cases of computer identity theft and altered computer records have been perpetrated by criminals who gained access to telephone data lines using electronic bugs.

ICS can help protect you from illegal or malicious eavesdropping. Our TSCM Sweep Team will conduct a thorough physical and electronic search of your home and property, including a security assessment to identify potential problems or actual breaches in every aspect of physical and information security.

Utilizing the most advanced equipment available, our TSCM Sweep Team’s “acoustic leakage detection” can discover the complete range of devices from inexpensive “baby monitors” and wireless microphones to the most sophisticated electronic surveillance devices and audio/video transmitters, including illegal eavesdropping transmitters that may be in a "non-operating" mode.

An effective method of locating and identifying possible Covert Surveillance Devices (bugs) and/or technical security weaknesses, TSCM includes both electronic and physical inspection of items such as briefcases, cell phones, automobiles, aircraft, watercraft, as well as home and office. A complete TSCM Inspection will assess weaknesses of all locks, alarms, and various security systems, and will also identify and eliminate all devices that may pose a possible security breach in client operations and could compromise sensitive personal and/or business secrets.

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Services:

• Certified and accredited TSCM experts
• Government-trained experts available
• Top 5 US Countermeasures schools

   Electronic Devices covered -

• Infrared
• Laser
• Audio
• Taps
• Bugs
• Cameras
• GPS
• Tracking
• Beacon
• Hard wire
• All types of telephone systems
• All types of vehicle. Aircraft-Marine
• Expert witness testimony

Threats discoverable during inspections:

• Wireless Microphones
• Intercom Systems
• Audio Monitors
• Tape Recorders
• Video Cameras (Hidden and Covert, fiber optic, etc.)
• Camcorders
• Recorder Start Delays (Voice Activated Systems)
• Remote Activated Devices
• Telephone Taps
• Parallel
• Serial
• Inductive
• Delay Listen
• Others
• Body Wires
• Beacons Tracking Devices
• Digital VLF Transmitters
• LAN/WAN eavesdropping devices
• Copy/Fax Machine Taps or acquisition devices
• Inactive, Off or Dead Devices
• Onsite Devices:
• Microphones
• Shotgun Microphones
• Cellular Interception Systems
• Pager Interception systems
• Wired Microphones
• Offsite Devices:
• Live Operations
• Demarcation point to CO battery line

A Usual TSCM Inspection Includes:

• Initial Threat Assessment
• Identification of Sensitive Areas
• Brief Physical and Perimeter Security Assessment
• Structural Elements Survey (i.e. walls, ceilings, floors, exits, etc.)
• Identification of Probable Intercept and Listening Posts
• Set-up of Primary TSCM Station
• Radio Frequency Sweeps (TSCM practical demodulations)
• Automated Sweep
• Spectral Analysis Sweeps
• Vectors And Waveforms Assessment
• Mobile Search and Intercept Receivers Sweep
• VLF/RF Sweep - (AC, DC, wiring, etc)
• Targeted Frequency Search
• Line Carrier Sweeps
• Other Proprietary Sweeps
• Very Low Frequency Sweeps
• Infrared Frequency Sweeps
• Infrared Lighting Sweep
• Ultraviolet Lighting Sweep
• Visible Light Spectrum Sweep
• Telephone Systems Analysis
• Problems Assessment
• Demarcation Points Located (Telephone Rooms)
• Visual Inspection and Inventory
• Central Office Trace
• CO Battery Test
• Digital Line Analysis
• Line Attachments and Instruments Test
• Time Domain Reflectometer Wire Tests
• Physical Inspection (instruments, demarcation points, wire, etc.)
• Key Service Unit Inspection
• Fully Active Remote Switching Activation
• Digital Line Analysis
• Series Devices Test
• Impedance and Balance Line Tests
• Modified Systems Test and Inspections
• Specialized Systems Test and Inspections (Faxes, Modems, etc.)
• Other ICS Proprietary Sweeps
• Physical Inspections
• Wire-by-Wire Inspection (AC, Computer Output Devices, Controls, LAN, Fire/Security Alarms, etc.)
• Wall Plates
• Furniture and Artifacts (Hyper-intensive)
• Oblique Lighting
• HVAC Ductwork
• Other Tests (On demand as needed)
• Acoustical Leakage
• Non-Linear Junctions Inspections
• X-ray Imaging
• Thermal Imaging

NOTE: Due to current export restrictions all non-USA clients must agree to purchase equipment available within their domestic markets.

Please also see: Eavesdropping Detection (Bugs and Taps)

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM): Counterintelligence techniques and measures designed to detect and neutralize a wide variety of hostile penetration technologies used to obtain unauthorized access to classified security information, restricted data, or sensitive information. Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, TSCM, ECM, Electronic Countermeasures, Counter-espionage

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Comment by: Anonymous 2/14/2009 9:02:57 AM I have an electronic nut neighbor whom I believe has a laser pointed at my window. I also believe he has bugged my phone. Since he has, I can't call you.