Corporate counterintelligence protection services
Zieliński now runs a private consulting firm that provides counterintelligence protection to companies—training staff, creating Blue Teams, developing incident response procedures, and coordinating IT security with awareness of what specific information needs protection.
DisclosureThis is Zieliński's own current business. He offers these services commercially.
His service includes: training employees (e.g., teaching receptionists not to plug in random USB drives found on desks), creating a 'Blue Team' from management with defined procedures for all possible incident types, and coordinating with the company's IT security provider so they understand the specific information assets that need protection. He also offers business intelligence services—investigating competitors using actual intelligence tradecraft, not just open-source research. He notes that in the US, such firms are massive and staffed by former intelligence officers, while in Poland the concept is just emerging. He was surprised to discover that most Polish firms calling themselves 'business intelligence' are run by lawyers who simply rebranded legal services.
He contrasts his service with the typical Polish 'business intelligence' firms: '95% of people doing this never had anything to do with any intelligence or counterintelligence—the vast majority are or were lawyers from law firms who just gave themselves the name that they do business intelligence.' Their work is limited to 'white intelligence'—publicly available information. His service includes actual operational security, personnel training, and coordinated IT/physical security integration.
He developed this business after leaving state service and finding no support from the Polish government. He had to work abroad as a contractor before translating his skills into the civilian market.
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