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Profiling the Threat

Posted: September 20th, 2016

By Steve Bongardt

Steve Bongardt is the VP of Security Consulting Services at Fidelis Cybersecurity. Before Fidelis, Steve served as an FBI Profiler at the Behavioral Analysis Unit specializing in cyber-related offenders, remote personality assessment, language analysis, the detection of deception, and behaviorally based interviewing. As a field agent, Steve was a terrorism investigator, a SWAT operator, sniper, a computer forensic examiner, and finished his career working espionage matters.

Behavioral profiling plays an important role in the wider effort to counter cyber threats, explains Steve Bongardt, VP of Security Consulting Services at Fidelis Cybersecurity. When it comes to external threats, behavioral profiling helps when trying to“ understand motives in general and come up with typologies,” says Bongardt.  In regard to insider threats, it can help “identify disgruntlement.”

The Cipher Brief: I understand you did behavioral profiling at the FBI. As a preface, can you describe what behavioral analysis is and what remote personality assessment is?

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