Insider Threat Special Report: Private Sector Challenges

When defense contractor Harold Martin was charged with the alleged theft of highly classified documents from the National Security Agency (NSA), federal prosecutors deemed the potential crime “breathtaking” in scope.

The documents were said to date back from 1996, when Martin first got security clearance, to his arrest this year.

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