What is Eavesdropping Protection and Audio Security?
The technique of protecting the intelligibility of sensitive conversations from detection, collection, and comprehension by inadvertent, deliberate, or electronic eavesdropping through the use of soundmasking is referred to as audio security. The scope of this application of soundmasking is different than soundmasking used in the typical open office environment. The goal in Audio Security is to protect intellectual property and sensitive information that is discussed by establishing a secured conferencing environment. While in the open plan environment, soundmasking is used to minimize distraction and improve concentration, in a secured environment soundmasking prevents information discussed from being interpreted by others outside the secured room (sometimes referred to as a SCIF, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility). Since the goal is different then that of open plan soundmasking applications, the devices used are designed to secure breech points, such as doors, windows,
