Most companies could benefit from emulating the healthcare industry when it comes to identifying insider threats through risk assessments and other best practices.
The Case for Student Threat Assessments – Part 1
Student threat assessments are becoming more accepted as a highly effective way to identify potential threats in time for positive intervention.
The Lessons of Umpqua
Four years ago today, a 26-year-old student at Umpqua Community College in Oregon fatally shot a professor and eight students and wounded eight others, before killing himself as police approached.
Continuous Evaluation Could Save Billions, RAND Says
The U.S. government could save up to $30 billion in just over two decades if it were to adopt continuous evaluation of personnel with security clearances instead of sticking with
Finding Ana Montes: A Haystax Use Case
By Hannah Hein Robert Hanssen. Edward Snowden. Ana Montes. Ana who? These names should have equal weight when people recall some of our country’s worst insider threat incidents, but for
Balancing School Risks in the Year of the Mass Shooter
As children around the U.S. start a new school year, the recent spate of mass shootings in Texas, Ohio and elsewhere is very much on the minds of their parents.
Most UBA Doesn’t Actually Focus on the User
For more than a year now, industry analysts have been warning that user behavior analytics (UBA) would become fragmented as a market segment and could eventually recede into irrelevance. In
The View from a DHS OpEx
Every two years or so, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate conducts what it calls an Urban Operational Experimentation, or OpEx, in a major metropolitan area.
