The “Insider” Threat

ABSTRACT

All speeches, memoranda, magazine and journal articles, Congressional discussions, and the often-referred “talking heads” of television address their material on homeland security (HS) and homeland defense (HD) to an “outsider” attack (i.e., individuals or groups not belonging to the organization or locale under attack). Any attack against this country's infrastructure and population, against its very political, economic, and social lifestyle by foreign or home grown terrorist organizations is a dynamic target for the country's HS/HD protective efforts. However, there is an absence, at least a dearth or paucity, of oral or written comment about the “insider” threat.

Key Words:

• Insider threat
• homeland security
• personnel security
• training
• security threat