This new form of espionage is affecting the economic and political relationships between nation-states as well as changing the shape of modern warfare. The author explores the opportunities for, as well as the obstacles to and risks connected with, intelligence service support to national science and industry in a contemporary Russian context. Espionage between nation-states is hardly a new phenomenon, but in the last few decades the world had moved into a whole new realm of spying: cyber espionage. In this report, the current situation in Russia is reviewed through the study of historical precedents, contemporary official documents and assessments by professionals in the field of intelligence. Espionage is the practice of using covert means to obtain confidential information from non-public sources.1 Meanwhile, economic espionage is concerned with the unlawful targeting and theft of critical intelligence, such as trade secrets and intellectual properties. Even though support from the intelligence services may seem like a promising short cut to Russian modernisation, it could in the long run turn out to be a dead end. of economic competitiveness in the definition of national security. A definition and brief description of Economic Espionage in relation to national security is as follows:Spying conducted for the benefit of a commercial or industrial enterprise, typically to gain information not available through open channels. This could lead to the increase in the economic espionage threat from Third World. There were, however, problems with successfully transferring the foreign technology acquired, and there were obvious hazards involved alongside the benefits of employing intelligence services to further national science and industry. Economic Espionage Economic Espionage in the National Security Context. The multiple Russian intelligence services had been gathering foreign scientific and technological know-how for many years as well as providing security and, to some extent, managerial support to Russian industry.

Economic Espionage professionals defined Honeypots as intelligence.

In 2010, it was not so much a question of whether the intelligence services of the Russian Federation would support domestic science and industry as of how effective they would be in doing so. economic espionage in that it involves the theft of trade secrets, however, indus-. Espionage is a federal crime that involves the gathering and transmission of military classified and defense information.

Economic espionage definition