My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

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I recently held a webinar where I was giving folks on my newsletter list some insight into my summer plans and my everyday life and the business development side and I talked a lot

about private intelligence. And what I was shocked to discover was how many people didn't understand

the really cool aspects of private intelligence. There were great questions and great feedback

during the

webinar itself, and I was especially impressed by how deep folks wanted to go with the world of

intelligence outside of the U.S. government. And when I talk about private intelligence,

that's what I'm talking about. Private intelligence is intelligence work outside of national security.

Sometimes it has to do with business intelligence. Sometimes it has to do with security intelligence

as it pertains to government buildings or as it pertains to information security in the commercial space.

But private intelligence is a big broad brush that covers all sorts of things.

And even though it covers non-national security issues, it still uses the same skills that you

find in national security. So private intelligence still uses all the same cool technology.

It still uses weapons. It still uses dead drops. It still

uses human intelligence concepts and sources and methods. So private intelligence is a really

fascinating and exciting place to work and that's why I continue to do it. That's why I am a

private intelligence consultant. And it's why I built everyday spy to help share

intelligence tactics and techniques with everybody, with everyday people, because it can

solve everyday problems. I wanted to take some time in this conversation today with you

to break down three popular areas that people often mistake for one another.

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