If you are considering retaining the services of a professional technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) practitioner to undertake debugging sweeps of your key offices meeting and conference areas, you need to be fastidious with your TSCM team selection

 Businesses that operate primarily as management consultancies, private investigators, background checkers, dirt diggers and due diligence ‘specialists’ generally are not professional technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) practitioners, debugging experts, or business counter espionage consultants. Nor have they the requisite knowledge or professional lab grade equipment to detect, defeat and nullify, electronic bugs, concealed cameras or other eavesdropping devices. However, adding bug sweep detection services, to their website supposedly makes them look good, and should they hook a client then it’s a nice earner as they neither have to maintain high levels of training or pay for equipment and calibration, or spend that long onsite for a good pay day! FYI TSCM debugging sweeps are neither cheap nor quick. If you are paying peanuts, then you are likely hiring monkeys! Conversely, being charged high professional fees does not mean you are getting value for money either.

Your TSCM team should be equipped with a spectrum analyser that will cover the frequency range 10Mhz – >12Ghz, for radio frequency analysis. A telephone and cable analyser, for cable and wire analysis, a non-liner junction detector to identify electronic components in walls, ceiling, and furniture, a thermal imager for thermal emissions analysis, and suitable equipment’s to evaluate the GSM 4G, WiFi and Bluetooth wireless networks as well as a selection of craft tools. Reporting – A detailed report of findings should be presented within a few days after completion of the onsite audit. For more information please give us a call; all initial consultations are free of charge.

At Risk3 Consulting, we have been protecting the spoken word in Asia for almost 20 years, and our founder and chief TSCM security ronin, has resided in Hong Kong since 1992. We always take your concerns for your business seriously. Our bug sweep detection services are second to none. We can normally respond to calls for business counter espionage debugging quickly anywhere in Asia. We operate at the highest levels of confidentiality and integrity and will keep your eavesdropping sweep investigation as low key as possible. To find out how we can help protect your business and keep your competitive edge please give us a call – Always call away from the suspected area!

What you say in private is your business keeping that way is ours!