“…All of this is consistent with the studies by Díaz (2018), Muñoz-Gallego (2018 and Norberto et al (2018) who state that although Colombia has made progress in legal matters regarding trade secrets, operational and procedural mechanisms are still required to sanction them (Sánchez et al, 2020 Once the descriptive statistics of each dimension were analyzed, the arithmetic average of the business counterintelligence variable was calculated, which obtained an average of 3.42, which represents a good system of business counter-intelligence in Colombian SMEs in the scale of interpretation of the results described in table 3. However, these results contradict the cross-cutting approaches of Múnera Pavón (2019), Durst and Zieba (2020), Jalil and Hassan (2020), Knickmeier (2020), who indirectly believe that businessmen believe that their companies are protected from the leakage of strategic material by having a closed video camera monitoring system, leaving aside information traffic as a determining factor in the development of a company. Therefore, a reconceptualization of the concept of security and protection of assets is required, reflecting on the professional secrets that give life to the economic entity (Button, 2020;Jung & Jung, 2020;Konopatsch, 2020;Sailio et al, 2020).…”