GEOPOLITICS4 April 2026· 16 min
Defensive Economic Intelligence: Protecting Strategic Assets in 2024
As economic espionage costs exceed $600B annually, organizations that deploy structured defensive intelligence frameworks reduce asset compromise risk by up to 73%. This premium guide delivers a battle-tested methodology with measurable outcomes.
SOURCES
[1]Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property — 2023 Annual Report on Economic Espionage
[2]IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 — Ponemon Institute / IBM Security
[3]Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2023
[4]CERT Insider Threat Center — Carnegie Mellon University SEI, 2023 Annual Study
[5]ISACA Risk IT Framework and FAIR Model — Factor Analysis of Information Risk, 2023 Edition
[6]EU NIS2 Directive (Directive 2022/2555) — European Parliament, October 2024 transposition deadline
[7]CISA Strategic Plan 2023–2025 and Threat Advisory TLP:WHITE publications
[8]SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals) — 2023 State of CI Survey
[9]AFCEA International — Economic Counterintelligence Best Practices Report, 2022
[10]Recorded Future / Mandiant / CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence — Threat Actor Profiles, 2023–2024