Insider Threat Subcommittee
The Insider Threat Subcommittee works to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and security of both government agencies and the private sector, as well as to foster more effective and secure partnerships. Priorities include:
- Research and analyze challenges related to insider threats, including malicious insiders’ motivations, tactics, and collaborators and the impacts of malicious insiders’ actions;
- Raise awareness of various types of insider threats, including the theft, loss, or leak of classified, sensitive, or proprietary information; the deliberate infliction of damage to an organization’s facilities, operations, or networks; or violence or harassment perpetrated by a trusted insider against other employees of the organization, whether at the workplace, at another location, or online;
- Identify and assess new methods for combating malicious insiders; and
- Capture best practices for establishing and executing insider threat programs
Publications
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INSA Paper Warns of Growing Insider Threats to U.S. National Security TechnologiesJune 05, 2025
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a new white paper, Countering Insider Theft of National Security Technology, which examines the growing risk of insider-enabled intellectual property theft targeting U.S. national security technologies. The report outlines how foreign adversaries, particularly the Chinese Communist Party, are increasingly using cyber and human intelligence operations to gain access to sensitive innovations developed outside the traditional classified space.
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Reel Life vs Real Life: Social Media & Your Security ClearanceOctober 05, 2023
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) today released a new paper, Reel Life vs. Real Life: Social Media and Your Security Clearance that provides policy recommendations for the U.S. government to clarify how Trusted Workforce 2.0 and Continuous Vetting will address social media activities and how such behavior will influence decisions regarding clearance eligibility.
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Managing Insider Risk During M&AsApril 03, 2023
In an April 2023 white paper, INSA argues that despite potential catastrophic consequences, many corporations do not prioritize personnel risk indicators or insider risk practices during the Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) process.
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New Paper Examines Potential Implications of Insider Threat Program NamesSeptember 29, 2022
In a September 2022 Intelligence Insights paper, “Insider Threat Program Naming Convention,” INSA argues that how an organization names its program influences personnel buy-in and program effectiveness.
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New Paper Addresses InTP Effectiveness MetricsSeptember 27, 2022
In a Sept. 2022 white paper, INSA recommends that both businesses and government agencies re-examine the metrics of their insider threat programs in order to ensure their programs’ effectiveness and resiliency.
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New Paper Addresses Bias and Insider Threat ProgramsMay 20, 2022
Developed by INSA’s Insider Threat Subcommittee, this paper identifies sources of potential bias that can be attributed to both people and technology. Through personal cognitive biases, whether implicit and unrecognized or overt, InT program staff can affect the objectivity of InT analyses.
