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DoD, IC Officials Push Predictive Analysis And Insider Threat Policies To Protect Cyber Domain

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, September 6th, 2017

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DoD, IC Officials Push Predictive Analysis And Insider Threat Policies To Protect Cyber Domain

Cyber readiness panel at AFCEA INSA Intelligence & National Security Summit. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The cyber resiliency of Department of Defense and intelligence community (IC) networks moving forward rests on re-organizing background checks for intelligence agents in order to eliminate the potential for insider threats, and creating effective policy to promote public-private partnerships to develop predictive analysis for potential threats to the domain, according to government and industry officials at a security conference on Wednesday.Two separate panels of DoD and IC cyber and security officials spoke at the AFCEA INSA Intelligence & National Security…

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