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InfoworldLast week, the Office of Management and Budget asked government agencies to spell out their strategies for minimizing insider risk. The memo, published by MSNBC, asked agencies to assess their security efforts and compliance to federal standards following the release of a trove of government documents, including classified State Department memos, by Wikileaks.
It's likely that federal contractors and government suppliers will also find themselves responding to this list of questions
and the central issue of preventing the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified materials. In a key section of the memo, the OMB requests information on whether organizations are measuring the "trustworthiness" of their employees and whether they use a psychiatrist or sociologist to measure the unhappiness of an employee as a measure of trustworthiness.
In an effort to prevent the leak of the crown jewels, government agencies and companies with significant intellectual property may be moving to stricter management of employees, says Ken Ammon, chief strategy officer for network access control firm Xceedium.
"Historically, policy and training have been the way (organizations) have handled insiders," Ammon says. "But if you talk with the DOD (Department of Defense), their most significant threat is an intelligent and motivated insider system administrator."
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