Detection Section (TSCM)
Anti-spy audit prior to a sensitive meeting
Protect Your Most Strategic Communications
Certain meetings alone involve significant stakes: board of directors meetings, acquisition negotiations, executive committee meetings, and confidential discussions among executives. It is precisely these moments that someone seeking to learn about your decisions before they are made public will try to capture. A room can be set up in advance, a device rigged, or a tracking device left on standby.
The pre-meeting audit addresses this specific risk: its purpose is to ensure, just before discussions begin, that there are no listening devices in the room. This one-time check protects the precise moment when sensitive information is exchanged—the moment when it is most vulnerable.
Unlike round-the-clock security, a pre-meeting audit focuses on the critical moment. It ensures confidentiality at the most vulnerable point, without requiring heavy-handed measures or disrupting the meeting.
What Our Services Include
Our goal is to ensure the privacy of the room during the meeting.
- A thorough sweep of the room shortly before the meeting;
- Search for hidden microphones, cameras, and transmitters;
- Inspection of objects, furniture, and access points;
- Neutralize or report any device that is discovered;
- Monitoring the integrity of the room until the discussions begin.
Every critical point is systematically checked. This service complements our securing a meeting room over the long term.
How the audit is conducted
It all begins with a confidential discussion to understand the context of the meeting and the layout of the venue, followed by a clear quote. Our technicians arrive shortly before the meeting, working discreetly to sweep the room and verify its security. Our detection operations are led by Igor Defosse, the Aquila Group’s TSCM technical lead. This ensures you have a verified space exactly when you need it.
A quick scan right before the meeting
The timing of the audit is critical. A room inspected several days in advance offers no guarantee on the day of the event, as equipment may have been installed there in the meantime. That is why our audit takes place shortly before the meeting, as close as possible to the time when sensitive discussions will take place, so that the inspection retains its full value.
When the situation warrants it, we can also ensure the integrity of the room between the end of the sweep and the start of the meeting, so that no devices are brought in during that time. This continuity closes the last possible loophole.
The package is designed to blend seamlessly into your organization, without drawing attention or delaying the meeting.
For which meetings?
The pre-meeting audit is intended for all meetings where confidentiality is critical: board meetings, negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, strategic committee meetings, and discussions among executives or with key partners. The more valuable the information exchanged, the more valuable the assurance of a verified space becomes.
This is particularly relevant when the meeting is held in a location you do not fully control—a rented room, a shared space, or a third-party site—where there is a higher risk that a device has been installed.
We tailor our services to the frequency of your sensitive meetings, ranging from a one-time consultation to ongoing support.
Complete discretion and integration
Discretion is essential here for two reasons. First, to prevent any potential malicious individuals from knowing that the room is being inspected. Second, to ensure that the participants’ peace of mind is not disrupted by any visible intervention. Our technicians therefore operate with the utmost discretion.
This seamless integration into your organization is part of the service: security must be invisible to be effective.
Why Choose the Aquila Group
The Aquila Group is a firm accredited by the CNAPS, whose technical detection division is supported by a dedicated specialist and professional equipment. Our services are provided by our own technicians throughout France, with high demand in the Paris region, thanks to our network of twenty branches across five regions.
Discretion, thoroughness, and a keen sense of timing are the cornerstones of our work. To schedule an audit before your next sensitive meeting, contact our teams : the initial consultation is confidential and non-binding.
One-time or recurring
A pre-meeting audit can be requested for a single, one-time meeting or scheduled on a regular basis for organizations that frequently hold sensitive meetings. Quarterly board meetings, monthly strategy committee meetings, or recurring negotiations often warrant a recurring audit rather than a one-time audit.
We tailor the service to your schedule—from a one-time session to support planned throughout the year—so that the protection of your communications keeps pace with the actual schedule of your important meetings.
A supplement to other measures
The pre-meeting audit naturally fits into a broader security strategy. It can supplement the ongoing protection of a dedicated room or be part of a recurring program covering all of your sensitive areas. This flexibility allows you to build a coherent response, ranging from one-time measures to ongoing ones.
Regardless of the approach you choose, the principle remains the same: to ensure that your most strategic communications take place in a verified and controlled environment.
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Pre-Meeting Audit, Frequently Asked Questions
This involves sweeping a room shortly before a strategic meeting to ensure that no listening devices are present during the discussions.
Because even if a venue is inspected several days in advance, there’s no guarantee that everything will be in order on the day of the event: equipment could be set up there in the meantime.
Yes, when the situation warrants it, to ensure that no device is introduced between the end of the sweep and the start of the meeting.
Yes. This is especially true in a place you don’t fully understand, where the risk is higher.
Yes, throughout France, thanks to our network of branches.
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