Managing the Insider Threat

Preface

An enemy launching a frontal attack can be anticipated and repulsed. An adversary who attacks from within, however, is not so readily countered. This book began as a study seekingto identify defenses against trust betrayers who were targeting critical infrastructure. It then evolved into a thesis that earned top writing honors at the Naval Postgraduate School¹ and into a subsequent article in the peer-reviewed journal Homeland Security Affairs.² Bolstered by further research commissioned by a professional security industry association, the work next migrated into an industry research report, Tackling the Insider Threat,³ samplings of which reappear in this book in Chapter 10 in edited form, with the permission of the ASIS Foundation. ...