Debugging (Electronics Countermeasures)

SIP’s Managing Director has been engaged in Counter Electronic Surveillance Sweeps (De-bugging) for over 40 years. As one of our main specialist areas, we have undertaken such service for UK and overseas Government Departments, Embassies, Major Financial Institutions, Corporations etc.

Due to the calibre of service we provide, it is important we keep up to date on technology insofar as ‘attack and defence’. It is extremely important you ensure that any company quoting to carry out a debugging survey has the equipment and the knowledge to perform
the sweep correctly.

Questions you should raise are:

  • do they use radio receivers with a frequency coverage up to at least 15GHz? SIP’s coverage is up to 20Ghz, although we acknowledge that transmitters within the 15-20Ghz range are large and difficult to conceal and would be more applicable to military applications
  • are they able to identify and, more importantly, eliminate digital transmissions from being transmitted from within the survey area?
  • are they able to detect and/or eliminate illicit transmitting devices using a mobile sim card? Often other agencies may identify a transmission on a known mobile phone network provider’s frequency but they are unable to identify who or where the transmission is coming from and therefore take no further action
  • do they know how to analyse DIGITAL and/or VOIP telephone lines or do they bypass any analysis of them and rely on a physical only which, due to concealed wiring, is not always possible? Or do they advise that digital and VOIP are secure so do not need checking. If the latter, it is not correct. Digital lines can be decrypted and VOIP lines can be intercepted. SIP covers all these elements so do not risk using an inadequate service and working under a false sense of security. Contact us now for a free quotation.