HIDDEN ACTIVE CELL PHONE DETECTOR

Abstract

Imagine you are an IT security consultant for Pharmaceutical companies. Recently a company hired you to find out why their latest drug leaked to one of their competitors prior to release. The company has many labs, each with sensitive drug information stored on computers that are closely monitored by cameras. The building they are housed in has security guards at every entrance and every employee is required to wear ID. Visitors must be escorted to ensure that no drug information leaks out.

You meet with the head of security and go over the security procedures. After a little digging you find that employee-owned electronic devices such as cellular phones are allowed in and out of the facility. The company feels that the non-disclosure agreements in combination with security personnel monitoring everything on camera are strong enough to keep employees honest and that the cost of screening for electronic devices is too high. You tell the head of security that tomorrow morning security must seize every employee’s electronics device as they enter the building.

The next morning you show up early and post yourself outside the entrance to the building. As people start to come into work their electronic devices are taken away. Eventually you notice that someone walking up to the entrance immediately turns around and walks back to their car. You alert security and they find the person trying to each away a cellular phone.

Later that morning, you download the contents of the cellular phone and find the files that were recently leaked. The employee confesses to everything and gives the details of how they did it. The files were stolen by transferring from the computers via a Bluetooth Connection. Evidently, some of the computers came with Bluetooth and wasn’t camera, since there were no wires being plugged into the computer.

Therefore the company needs a way to detect cellular phones in the facility. There are a few existing cellular phone detectors on the market today that could have caught the employee prior to the information leaking out. However, this technology still needs a lot of improvement and development.