Category: Senior Leadership Perspectives
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Adapt or Die: Building Internal Intelligence Networks to Combat Modern Insider Threats
Insider threat professionals across Western governments, industry, and academia face a reckoning. As near-peer adversaries continue to target wide swathes of American innovation, industry, and government, a generation of tech-savvy millennials have joined the workforce with the ability to exfiltrate unprecedented amounts of data with a few swipes of the finger. This generation no longer…
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Bystander Engagement
The power of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Counter-Insider Threat Program resides in every individual in the DoD and their willingness to take action to help a friend, co-worker, supervisor, or family member in need. This requires us all to be aware, know whom to communicate with, understand which avenues for assistance are available, and…
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Complexity: Leveraging Data While Being Human Centric
It is crucial to identify and mitigate insider risks within our organizations; however, there are two persistent challenges: 1. Leveraging ever more complex and disparate data sources for the mission. 2. Balancing this information system-driven approach with the human elements of our organization. A holistic information system that can identify insider threat risks based on…