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The intellectual violations of the securities of property do the new ones of headline with the alarming frequency and create the headaches for the consumers, the businesses, the governments and the institutions everywhere. The ghost of identity and of flight of property intellectual everyone puts back directs, the house affable by the incidents as to follow it:

? Two files of 200 Moorish one that contain incomplete portions of the code source for Windows 2000 and operating systems of Windows NT were flown and were posted to the Internet. An individual downloaded the code and offered it to sell. A clandestine agent of federal judicial Police bought the code and the salesman was charged under the Act of Spying of American Economique. 1
? The more of $20 billion industry of video game shook when the new ones went out of the size of the computer network and Internet fuant of the code source to the Software of Valve, the manufacturer of the Half Life medga-populaire 2, a killer one of first person (FPS) the video game. The financial ramifications of code source already authorized to the contractors, but now free available on the sites of black market, is something that no executive needs to meet. 2
? The American Commission of Commerce of Federal one (FTC) announced that ChoicePoint of broker of data of consumer, Inc., will pay $10 million in the civil penalties and furnishes $5 million for the repair of consumer to regulate the loads of FTC that his security and the procedures report checking violated rights of intimacy of the consumers and the federal laws. Because of the violation of the security, at least 800 cases of usurpation of identity were retrieved. 3

Today the businesses must employ guarantees through the entire business to guarantee that the intellectual property is assured. As subcontractor of the to the salesmen are confided more and more with a property of the intellectual business to use the economies of cost and the productivity gains, these salesmen must raise of also the checks of security of the business. It is imperative that the businesses examine every aspect of a protocols of security of outsourcer to protect the valid intellectual property.


What can the businesses do?

When the intellectual property is violated or is flown, any matters are in for a rocky turn. Well too often, a business believes that its measures of security are satisfactory but then something arrives and it becomes evident that which security was at his place was not rather good. And "not rather good" is unacceptable if the intellectual property of your business is in game. As to lock it proverbial carries it stable after the horse already locked, improving the security after the data flight arrives is too last.

When the businesses subcontract their valid intellectual property, the potential one for the increased risk is there. Although the governments of China and India did the steps to address the offence of copyright, clearly the work always has need of be done. The wheels of bend of justice slowly and subcontracting salesmen cannot count on the authorities to oversee the intellectual property. Unfortunately, not all the outsourcers estimates their customers enough to invest in the not at all security, or to do they have a culture where integrity is at the kernel.

As the party of the process of due diligence while choosing a subcontracting salesman, the organizations should determine that the subcontracting salesman adheres to the highest norms of security to guarantee their valid intellectual property is arrangements of sure and specific security than should be detailed them in the contract. A salesman of good reputation of subcontracting would respect and would applaud these efforts.
Practice the ip-sur subcontracting.

It is critical that a business at sea of subcontracting invests and employs an approach multi-to guarantee facets to protect the news of matters of the critical customer. A good salesman considers their property of the intellectual customers as exchange to their own success of matters. To attain the protection of intellectual property maximum, the Long Circle recommends that, as the party of the security the process of due diligence, a business examines how an outsourcer addresses the following sectors.

? Weak links: Immoral employees or little suspects
The immoral employees are an evident risk to the vulnerable data. The development departments must be everywhere on the guard to guarantee that the indirect code does not slip by, not to guarantee to enter the guarantees are at his place if computer pirates cannot enter, just like to have "does not leave the premises" the protection to his place if employed cannot fly the intellectual property. Nevertheless the experts warn that nevertheless another challenge of serious security does facing commercial corporations today: social engineering.

The accounts of portable telephone of 400 customers of T MOVABLE ae" including the device of II of Under Fife of the Hilton of Paris of worldly one -- were compromised by the computer pirates. The videos of Hilton, the numbers of personal telephone of its friends of fame and of messages hit right away the sites of Internet, just like the furnished feed for the last monologues of TV in the evening. According to a history retrieved by the Post of Washington, a computer pirate that puts as an employee of T MOVABLE obtained the access to the news of security that were furnished by an employer little suspects through a telephone call. The practice of social engineering ae" the trunk with the legitimate access to the limited data to reveal confidential the news ae" underlines the need to induce employees to keep against distributing by oversight of the sensitive data on the telephone, in the person, or in the public.

? Obtain the perimeter
The intellectual property should be locked in a removed site that has a strong defense of security against the superfluous access. The building itself, the entry, and the sensitive sectors should be kept to guarantee the final ones of end cannot be impaired. Besides, a politics of checks bag should be applied to the employees as well as the guests: no data that copy the device can be let the door enter and no data can leave the premises. The protocols should include measures as the guest and as the contractors sign in when they enter the premises, the emblems of identification of wear, are employed designated always of the accompanied of, and the access is limited and is checked.

? A lot of eyes
The outsourcer should have a culture where every employee takes the security, the intimacy, and the integrity to the heart. The security is to patrol the beaches. The intimacy is to keep the news in only the right. Integrity is to show the care, the behavior, and the correct attitudes towards to protect the intellectual property of the customers. Vigilant and vigilant employees one of the better guards against the threats to a property of the customer intellectual.

? Separate and obtain
Confidential the news of every customer physically should be separated. The software of the customer and the material conception should be stored on the obtained waiters that only can be attained by the authorized personnel and the network circulation should be contained on a network of devoted Ethernet (local network).

Besides, the development teams should work in the physically separated sectors with the limited access. As a political general one, information of customer of property should not be divided between the employees that treat separated teams; violation has a has for result of the harsh consequences.

? The stops flee
It goes without saying that the bottom checks should be directed on all the employees. An outsourcer should apply a political strict one that defends any employee to remove, copy, print, or transmit any data and the physical plant should support the political one. The computers that check the news of customer physically should be locked down below, stripped of all the devices copying and of external interfaces of device, and connected to a local isolated network that allows only the circulation destined to predprogrammer, the legitimate addresses. Although the employees have the e-mail and the access to Internet; but there should be not access to Internet on any post of work of dedicated customer.

Conclusion

The businesses ip-bases represent now the biggest only sector of the American economy and, according to the Commerce Department American, the costs of flight of property intellectuals businesses American one estimated $250 billion per year and 750,000 American jobs.
An outsourcer is not only tasked with R&D development, but equally important, is counted to keep this sure intellectual property. No business can allow itself to do the matters with a subcontracting salesman that jumps or takes short cuts with the security. As a business moves his intellectual property at sea, it must watch out that the security is not behind left.

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