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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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.
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New InT Paper Calls for Greater Information SharingOctober 06, 2021
Notes that government and cleared industry are partners in ensuring the protection of the national security workforce. However, for cleared contractors to fully meet their security obligations and effectively implement mandatory insider threat training programs, they need...
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New Paper Addresses Insider Threat and Remote WorkSeptember 16, 2021
Finds the impact of the pandemic created both technical and psychological challenges for organizations that increased the risk of insider threats.