What is the DOD insider threat program?
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What is the DOD insider threat program?
The Insider Threat Program addresses and analyzes information from multiple sources on concerning behaviors and any risks that could potentially harm DCSA’s people, resources and capabilities. You are the first line of defense against insider threats.
What are the three types of insider threats?
Insider threats come in three flavors:
- Compromised users,
- Malicious users, and.
- Careless users.
What does the insider threat office do?
The NITTF helps the Executive Branch build programs that deter, detect, and mitigate actions by insiders who may represent a threat to national security. The NITTF develops guidance, provides assistance, assesses progress and analyzes new and continuing insider threat challenges.
What are the three phases of insider threat recruitment?
Classic recruitment by adversaries includes three phases: spot and assess, development, and recruiting and handling.
What is considered a threat to national security?
Anything that threatens the physical well-being of the population or jeopardizes the stability of a nation’s economy or institutions is considered a national security threat.
What are some examples of insider threats?
Types of Insider Threats
- The employee who exfiltrated data after being fired or furloughed.
- The employee who sold company data for financial gain.
- The employee who stole trade secrets.
- The employees who exposed 250 million customer records.
- The nuclear scientists who hijacked a supercomputer to mine Bitcoin.
Which of the following is mostly considered an insider threat?
An insider threat is a category of risk posed by those who have access to an organization’s physical or digital assets. These insiders can be current employees, former employees, contractors, vendors or business partners who all have — or had — legitimate access to an organization’s network and computer systems.
Who can you report insider threat to?
Who should you report an insider threat to? If you are not affiliated with the government as an employee, military member or contractor and find yourself in a position where you believe you need to report an insider threat, you would contact your local law enforcement or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
What are indicators of insider threat?
Indicators of a potential insider threat can be broken into four categories–indicators of: recruitment, information collection, information transmittal and general suspicious behavior.
What is the best defense against malicious insider attacks?
These should include:
- Disabling the departing employee’s account.
- Disabling the user’s email logins.
- Changing all shared account passwords that the departing user knows.
- Terminating access to voicemail.
- Terminating VPN and Remote Desktop access.
- Informing company staff that the user is no longer employed there.
What threat level is the U.S. at today?
Elevated
The current Nationwide Threat Level is Elevated as defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
What represents the greatest threat to federal information systems?
The greatest threats to federal information systems are internal – from people who have working knowledge of and access to their organization’s computer resources.
What is not considered an insider threat?
These users do not need sophisticated malware or tools to access data, because they are trusted employees, vendors, contractors, and executives. Any attack that originates from an untrusted, external, and unknown source is not considered an insider threat.
What must be reported to Dcsa and FBI?
Cleared contractors must also report actual, probable, or possible espionage, sabotage, terrorism, or subversion promptly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and DCSA (NISPOM 1-301).
Which of the following is likely to be an indicator of insider threat behavior?
Which of the following controls helps prevent insider threats?
Which of the following controls helps prevent insider threats? Two-person control is specifically intended to prevent insider threats by requiring two individuals to take a given action.
How and why to build an insider threat program?
Designate an insider threat program senior official to oversee the institution’s insider threat program
How to build an effective insider threat program?
Each employee will show a regular pattern of activity.
How to implement an insider threat program?
Keys to a Successful Insider Threat Mitigation Program
What would you do to counter the insider threat?
Insider Threat – It may not be what you think
