It has been almost four years since President Barack Obama issued the National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs, which identified six minimum standards that executive-branch agencies are required to include in their insider-threat programs.
Defense agencies and the military branches are working to meet those standards, which total 26 when all of the subtasks under each of the six broad topics are included. However, they are encountering some challenges connected to their missions that are complicating the task.
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The military services have a global footprint. The Navy has ships afloat and monitoring a network on a ship is always a challenge. The presence of reservists, who often have what amounts to a dual identity between civilian duty and times of service.
The National Insider Threat Task Force within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is working with Defense Department program managers to help identify which of DoD’s components need a new insider threat program and how those programs need to be implemented. For example, The Defense Commissary Agency needs a program that looks different from what the Navy or a Combatant Command builds out.
“The insider threat is a pervasive and difficult problem, because it is a human problem, not a technical one. So any technical tools must be user-based,” Daniel Bradford, deputy to the commander and senior technical director/chief engineer with the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM), said during a C4ISR & Networks webcast in 2015.
