ARLINGTON, VA (Jan. 13, 2022)—The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) today released a new white paper, Strategies for Addressing Bias in Insider Threat Programs, that can help insider threat and security managers identify and mitigate biases that undermine the effectiveness of insider threat (InT) programs ...
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White Papers
Designating Space Systems as New U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sector
ARLINGTON, VA (Nov. 2, 2021)—In a white paper released today, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) calls for the formal designation of U.S. space systems as a new sector of U.S. critical infrastructure. Developed by INSA’s Cyber Council, the paper, Designating the U.S. Space Sector as Critical Inf ...
New Paper Calls for Changes to CUI Program
ARLINGTON, VA (October 25, 2021)—The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) today released Complex, Confusing, and Costly: Challenges Implementing the Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Program, a new paper that details the onerous implementation requirements of the government’s CUI Pr ...
New InT Paper Calls for Greater Information Sharing
Arlington, VA (October 6, 2021)—The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) today released a white paper, The Need for Transparency on Insider Threats: Improving Information Sharing Between Government and Industry, that identifies key policy and statutory changes needed to improve insider threat information sha ...
New Paper Addresses Insider Threat and Remote Work
ARLINGTON, VA (Sept. 16, 2021)—The Intelligence & National Security Alliance has released a new white paper, Managing Insider Threats in a Remote Work Environment: Lessons from the Pandemic that provides observations based on expert-level interviews on how the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic has aff ...
INSF Paper Finds Remote Work to Outlive Pandemic
ARLINGTON, VA — The Intelligence and National Security Foundation (INSF) has released a new white paper focused on the COVID-19 pandemic impact on the intelligence and national security workforce. Underwritten by Avantus Federal, The Future of the IC Workforce: The Promise and Limits of Remote Work Technology summariz ...
Op-Eds
New INSA Op-Ed: Promoting Neurodiversity in the IC
The following Op-Ed by INSA President Suzanne Wilson Heckenberg and Policy Intern Ali Berman was published on ClearanceJobs.com on Wednesday, October 6: Each year the intelligence community (IC) loses thousands of talented workers to better-paid private sector jobs and often to an onerous security clearance process. In ...
INSA Op-Ed: Six Priorities to Revitalize National Intelligence
In this January 29 Op-Ed published in The Hill, INSA Chairman Letitia A. Long and INSA Vice President of Policy Larry Hanauer, outline key steps the new Director of National Intelligence can take to help revitalize the Intelligence Community. In a strong display of bipartisanship, the Senate confirmed Avril Haines a ...
INSA Op-Ed: Major Data Thefts Enable Adversaries to Target Americans
Val LeTellier | ClearanceJobs | September 29, 2020 Despite having taken place years ago, data breaches affecting the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Anthem Health, Equifax, Yahoo, Marriott, and United Airlines continue to help foreign adversaries recruit insider sources from government agencies, businesses, and univ ...
INSA Op-Ed: Leading the IC After 2020’s Upheavals
"In the wake of 2020’s transformative events, U.S. intelligence agencies must challenge longstanding institutional habits and embrace new ways to meet the nation’s strategic challenges," INSA Chairman Tish Long writes in her July 20 Op-Ed in Government Executive. Leading the Intelligence Community After 2020's Uph ...
INSA Op-Ed Addresses Security Clearance Reciprocity
The process for security clearance reciprocity needs to change In a Dec. 17 Op-Ed, INSA's Security Policy Reform Council Chair Charlie Allen calls on the Acting DNI to address the "burdensome and often redundant security policies and practices that prevent cleared government employees and contractors from moving across fed ...
INSA Op-Ed: Companies Must Invest to Mitigate Insider Threats
The Cipher Brief published an INSA op-ed on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, encouraging companies to view measures to mitigate insider threats as a long-term investment in organizational security and brand preservation.
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