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How to Combat Threats from Within

How to Combat Threats from Within

August 17, 2018 | Tatiana Burn

Internal threats are a looming problem for both government and private organizations. That鈥檚 why government agencies joined 香港六合彩玄机, and others at a briefing last week to discuss solutions to the insider threat problem across government. They examined privacy and security implications, as well as preventative strategies like a 360-degree view of personnel who can help identify and mitigate insider threats.

, Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), may have hit a chord when he said, 鈥淐ombating the threat from within sounds like a really scary movie; the sad thing is it is based on truth.鈥

The event drew national attention. Here are highlights from that news coverage:

  • | C-SPAN | 8/7/18
    • Nextgov, a federal technology and cybersecurity website, hosted a forum with intelligence officials and security experts on insider threats in the government and the private sector. They discussed privacy and security implications, training employees to identify malicious activity and the key components for constructing an insider threat program.
  • | ExecutiveGov | 8/8/18
    • , director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, has said the Defense Departmentis more likely to integrate NBIB into its operations than splitting the bureau workload鈥
  • | MeriTalk | 8/8/18
    • Officials in government, the private sector, and academia discussed their efforts to establish a defensive posture and use technology-augmented programs to deter and detect insider threats 鈥
  • | Defense Systems | 8/7/18
    • It looks like the Defense Department will indeed be taking over background investigations鈥
  • | MeriTalk | 8/7/18
    • Charles Phalen, director of the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), said today at an event hosted by Nextgov and 香港六合彩玄机 that he supports a proposal in the President鈥檚 government reform and reorganization plan to move NBIB 鈥渋n its entirety from the Office of Personnel Management into the Department of Defense.鈥濃

where you鈥檒l hear from other speakers, including National Counterintelligence & Security Center Director William Evanina, National Insider Threat Task Force Director Wayne Belk, Lockheed Martin Intelligence Analyst Kimberly O鈥橤rady and

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Tatiana Burn

Tatiana Burn

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