Corporations spend millions of dollars annually to secure patents, registered marks (trademarks and service marks), copyrights and trade secrets because these create valuable barriers to entry. Despite the care taken to legally protect their intellectual property (IP), abuse of IP is widespread and growing. Today, digital content is particularly at risk due to hackers, employee theft and external peer to peer networks wreaking havoc at every opportunity.

The Business Software Alliance estimates that 25% of all U.S. companies used pirated business software programs; in some countries that figure soars to 99%. The American Society of Industrial Security has estimated the losses attributable to the theft of trade secrets to be at least $2 billion a month.

Infortal Worldwide has worked on thousands of IP theft investigations on behalf of its corporate clients. Based upon our intelligence gathering, Infortal believes that the dramatic increase in IP crime is due to minimal start-up costs, the dearth of international enforcement of IP laws and insufficient awareness of cyberfraud activities by corporate victims.

Infortal's IP Assured™ is designed to safeguard intellectual property from criminals. IP Assured™ addresses the following areas:

• Intellectual Property Policies and Procedures
• Employee Awareness Programs
• IP and Computer Security
• Intellectual Property Investigations
  • Patent and Registered Mark Infringements
  • Copyright Violations
  • Trade Secret Theft
• Surveillance
• Corporate Counter Espionage Programs
• Vulnerability Studies
• Computer Forensics