Companies Must Invest in More Robust Insider Threat Programs
The most infamous spies, moles, and saboteurs have come from intelligence and military organizations. However, recent allegations made against an employee by Tesla CEO Elon […] More
Posts Tagged ‘insider threat’
What if the Insider Threat Is You?
Sometimes we’re the threat, whether to ourselves or others, without even realizing it. Insider threats trace back to humans, thus, it’s at our own peril […] More
Harvard Admits Manning Hire ‘Mistake’ Amid Intel Community Outrage
Michael Morell, former acting and deputy director of the CIA, resigned Thursday from his teaching position at Harvard University in protest of the school’s naming of […] More
Defusing Leakers Means Knowing What Makes Them Tick
Tackling insider threat — everything from leaking classified information to potential workplace violence — is a key part of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center’s […] More
Lack of Sharing, Training Compounds Insider Threat
Malicious and trusted insiders pose a range of challenges in terms of counterintelligence risks and physical threats, and experts say policy needs to catch up […] More
A CSO’s Guide to Insider Threats
Each minute of each day federal cybersecurity teams triage an unimaginable number of threats to our national security. While many of those threats are from […] More
Changing the “Gotcha” Approach to Insider Threats
With the help of big data analytics, the Department of Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center — better known as the DITMAC — is […] More
Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a “Hostile Intelligence Service”
CIA Director Mike Pompeo called WikiLeaks a “non-state, hostile intelligence service” that is “often abetted by state actors like Russia” in his first public speech […] More
It Takes a Team to Stop the Bleeding from Insider Threats
The top counterintelligence priorities of the United States government are insider threats, protecting critical infrastructure, and supply chain security, according to National Counterintelligence Executive Bill […] More
WikiLeaks Sparks Insider Threat Debate for CIA
The leak of documents allegedly describing secret CIA hacking techniques has shined a light on the intelligence agency’s use of contractors and its efforts to […] More
Insider Threat Special Report: Edward Snowden’s Access to Secrets
Among the least understood and considered elements of the Edward Snowden saga are the details around what his job was and what data he could […] More
Insider Threat Special Report: Contracting at the NSA
Steven Bay was a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton for nine years. He was working on an NSA contract in Hawaii when he hired Edward […] More
What if the U.S. Can’t Keep a Secret? The Real Impact of Manning’s Leaks
Now that the dust has settled on President Obama’s unexpected decision to, his last week in office, commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, it’s worth […] More
An Exclusive, Personal Chat with Edward Snowden’s Former Boss
Steven Bay has held his secrets and his struggles close for nearly four years now. Bay was Edward Snowden’s boss in June of 2013 when […] More
Insider Threat Special Report: Whistleblowers
Distinguishing between whistleblowers who want to point out and fix problems within the intelligence community and employees who want to damage national security will demand […] More
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 […] More
Insider Threat Special Report: Future Snowdens and Harsh Realities
In the wake of the arrest of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Aldrich Ames as a spy, then-CIA Chief of Counterintelligence Paul Redmond commented, “There […] More
Obama: “Justice Served” but Manning Decision Angers Security Community
President Barack Obama’s decision on Tuesday to commute the sentence of U.S. Army private Chelsea Manning’s sentence is being met with outrage in the military […] More
Hill Report: NSA Leaker Snowden Maintains Contact with Russian Intel Services
NSA leaker Edward Snowden “has had, and continues to have, contact with Russian intelligence services” since his arrival in Moscow, a declassified report released on […] More
NSA Leaks: How Could This Happen Again?
The filing of a criminal complaint by the U.S. government against a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor has once again raised the harrowing possibility that […] More
The Biggest Challenge: Insider Threats
The Cipher Brief sat down with Steven Grossman, VP of Strategy and Enablement at Bay Dynamics, to discuss the current cyber threat landscape facing the […] More
Trade Secret Theft Trends: A Closer Look at the Perpetrators
American businesses lose an estimated $160 billion to $480 billion annually due to trade secret misappropriation. To combat this loss, over the past few years […] More
Insider Cyber Threats: A Pressing Problem Facing Business
There are two different types of insider threat: negligent and malicious. Negligent insiders are people who give attackers access by mistake. For example, the employee […] More
Visualizing the Threat
The Cipher Brief sat down with Stuart Clarke, Chief Technical Officer for Cybersecurity at Nuix, to discuss how the visualization of data plays a critical […] More