U.S. Intel Chief: Insider Leaks A Top Priority

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/232500579

By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
January 27, 2012

Building the architecture necessary to prevent another Wikileaks might 
take several years, director of national intelligence James Clapper said 
at an event Thursday in Washington, D.C.

The Wikileaks scandal, in which 260,000 diplomatic cables, many of them 
sensitive, were burned onto CD-RWs and later published online, has 
accelerated work toward ensuring that information sharing is secure, 
Clapper said in a speech on information sharing at the Center for 
Strategic and International Studies. However, there is no silver bullet 
to preventing insider threats.

"Inherently, we've always had a responsibility for protecting against 
insider threats," Clapper said in a speech on information sharing at the 
Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Wikileaks has 
heightened our sensitivity. In the IT context, the insider threat is 
quite profound, and that's why everybody is more sensitized to being 
alert."

The intelligence community is taking a multi-pronged approach to 
addressing the insider threat problem, Clapper said. Among other things, 
the community is developing a "national insider threat policy," is 
investing heavily in more pervasive auditing and monitoring 
capabilities, is improving identity management, and is tagging data as a 
means of access control. In addition, any of the policies and procedures 
around removable media have already been overhauled, and security 
clearance procedures are continuing to improve, he said.

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