Business Espionage Countermeasures South Africa (BECSA) was founded in October 2011. It is a voluntary professional association for individuals with an interest in countering corporate espionage and who recognise the uniqueness of the task in the corporate environment.

BECSA was formed to coordinate and promote business counterintelligence and business espionage countermeasures in South Africa in a constructive and positive manner.

The association was founded by members of Corporate Business Insight & Awareness (CBIA) and other leading local information protection specialists to provide a forum for those interested in promoting corporate countermeasures and protecting their organisations.

BECSA aims to become the authoritative industry voice to introduce and promote business espionage countermeasures in South Africa. It further aims to bring countermeasures experts together in a formal network to establish protocols, controls and guidelines to South African corporations and businesses to counter to growing threat of business espionage.