Business intelligence is a systematic and ethical method of gathering and analyzing information regarding the competitors' activities, capabilities, and business orientations. The information is gathered from a wide range of sources to help identify strategic changes in the competitors' operations beforehand and predict their next steps in order to gain a relative advantage. Business environments change rapidly, so the need for a means of monitoring the competitors' progress is growing. We basically assume that gathering intelligence regarding the competitors is essential for companies' decision-making and management processes.

The National Security Unit delivers training sessions and instructions in the field of business intelligence, all of which are intended for any company that wants to enhance its competitiveness on the market. The services the National Security Unit offers its customers are intended to enable them to gather information regarding their competitors to gain an advantage. The specialists at the National Security Unit will design the optimal business-intelligence solution for your organization. This solution is intended to be used as part of the decision-making process and provide strategic, tactical, and operative data. The specialists at the National Security Unit work in collaboration with the customer in order to determine the necessary data according to the company's strategies. This process facilitates the continuous obtainment, analysis, and categorization of data, and its duration may very
pursuant to the strategies set by the company's management.

Employee and Candidate Reliability

Examining the reliability of workers has two aspects: examining workers who are already employed by the company and examining job candidates who are supposed to be employed by the company.

We may need to examine the reliability of workers who are already employed by the company for several reasons:

• Wanting to promote an employee to a position that involves commercial secrets or large sums of money.
• Wanting to promote an employee to a very senior position or offering him partnership.
• Suspecting that one of the employees is providing business information to competitors, stealing information, or intentionally causing damage to the company.
• Suspecting that one of the employees is lying about his working hours, not following directions, or has forged authorizations.

We may need to examine the reliability of workers who are undergoing the company's recruitment process for several reasons:

• Preventing the hiring of persons with a criminal/dubious record.
• Verifying the information in the candidate's CV.
• Checking the candidate's martial status and personal background to prevent a potential conflict of interest.

The National Security Unit's Security Consultation Department can inspect the reliability of workers for its customers in order to determine the threat they may pose to a company if hired. The reliability examination comprises several aspects:

• Polygraph
• Installation of surveillance and monitoring equipment
• Surveillance and wire tapping, if necessary.