USB Detection in Industrial Espionage Cases

Aparna Chandran, Harsha V

Abstract: Industrial Espionage is the covert and illegal practice of investigating competitors to gain a business advantage. The target of industrial espionage might be a trade secret such as a proprietary product specification or formula, or information about business plans. Nowadays USB plays a leading role in Industrial espionage. Employees can easily access systems and there is a chance of thefting confidential data and that may cause problem. Here I introduce a new concept which provides a way to store USB details in central server system and the method runs in client systems without the knowledge of employees. The method will retrieve every information about the USB drive whenever it is mounted in any of the system which is useful to verify the data theft team.

Keywords: USB, Registry, Backup, Data Transfer, Industrial Espionage