Dactyloscopic accounting as a destructive factor affecting the security of subjects of competitive intelligence

The article analyzed the modern forms, methods and procedures of processing various anthropogenic biometric indicators by foreign law enforcement agencies and interested private structures. The peculiarities of how they apply biometric systems of identification and verification of persons based on fingerprints are distinguished. Studies have shown that international economic crimes and organized transnational crime have become widespread in today's conditions. Undoubtedly, these factors have a destructive effect on stability and security in all spheres of life of the civilized society of the leading countries of the world. Therefore, the prospect of neutralizing the mentioned factors needs to be resolved as soon as possible. But the organization of adequate countermeasures against these factors today requires considerable efforts on the part of the relevant state structures and becomes possible only thanks to the combination of all available forces and means at the global level, primarily the capabilities of modern information technologies and biometric systems. However, the use of biometric technologies by foreign law enforcement agencies, in particular the identification of persons by fingerprints, today causes certain contradictions between the forms and methods currently used by competitive intelligence entities to hide their activities. In particular, on the one hand, the intensive implementation of modern information technologies enables law enforcement agencies of many countries of the world to effectively search for international criminals thanks to the successful use in their practice of modern biometric systems of identification and verification of persons based on their biometric indicators. On the other hand, such systems may pose certain threats to the activity of competitive intelligence entities. In view of the level and nature of such threats, the authors of the article selected for evaluation a system of identification of persons based on fingerprints, the component of which is the so-called dactyloscopic records. It is known that today foreign law enforcement agencies constantly create, fill and use for their own purposes dactyloscopic records, which include a certain category of persons. First of all, we are talking about persons who have violated the current legislation of one or another country or are suspected of committing a criminal offense. Therefore, the danger of the activities of the subjects of competitive intelligence on the territory of a foreign country is precisely the possible entry of dactyloscopic characteristics (parameters) of its employees into the specified records. However, the process of forming, replenishing and using these accounts is not sufficiently perfect today. This makes it possible for interested structures, primarily subjects of competitive intelligence, to find new ways to deceive (circumvent) them and to constantly improve the methods developed in this field. The assessment of the possibilities of modern biometric systems for the identification of persons based on fingerprints and the peculiarities of their use by foreign law enforcement agencies in their professional activities gave the authors of the article the opportunity to develop and offer to the subjects of competitive intelligence separate practical recommendations for the organization of effective countermeasures against those systems during the performance of professional tasks abroad.