THE LEGAL CHALLENGES OF PREVENTING TRADE SECRET THEFT
Both the academic and corporate communities have sought to stem the tide of trade secret theft through the implementation of aggressive organizational security programs (Boni, 1999; Thompson et al., 2015; CERT Insider Threat Center, 2016; Fitzpatrick & Dilullo, 2015).
You should also have a company-wide trade secret policy in place and make sure all your employees are familiar with it.
What they are after is what makes their companies what they are, their trade secrets!
Thus, any business with confidential, valuable information should develop its cybersecurity practices with protection of its trade secrets in mind.
Trade secrets can be almost any business information that is valuable because it is secret.
source code held as a trade secret brought to courts in violation of the
trade secret law and an examination of the legal elements of Section
It also notably omits any requirement that a
trade secret plaintiff describe its
trade secrets with particularity, which helps to protect the sensitive
trade secret information after prosecution of the offender.
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trade secrets, trademark, copyright, employment and business torts.