GEOPOLITICS5 September 2026· 16 min

Defensive Economic Intelligence: Protecting Strategic Assets in 2024

As corporate espionage costs exceed $600B annually, organizations must deploy systematic defensive intelligence frameworks. This premium analysis delivers a battle-tested methodology, quantified threat matrices, and prioritized countermeasures drawn from documented case studies.

InekIA Editorial Team

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[1]FBI Intellectual Property Theft Statistics & Annual Report 2023 — fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/ip-theft

[2]IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 — ibm.com/security/data-breach

[3]Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2023 — verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir

[4]Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 — microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/microsoft-digital-defense-report-2023

[5]European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO): The Economic Cost of IP Infringement 2023 — euipo.europa.eu/en/discover-us/about-euipo/observatory/documents-and-publications

[6]EUIPO & EPO: IPR-Intensive Industries and Economic Performance in the EU 2023

[7]U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Annual Threat Assessment 2023 — dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications

[8]Resilinc: Supply Chain Resilience Report 2023 — resilinc.com/resources

[9]Open Group FAIR Institute: Factor Analysis of Information Risk Standard — fairinstitute.org

[10]U.S. Department of Justice: Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) Enforcement Statistics 2023 — justice.gov