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2008-05-19 Terror Networks

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Posted by lotp 2008-05-19 08:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The private sector must proactively address the insider threat by creating a smaller informed management of secure individuals, improving employee screening for new employees, updating screening for existing employees and educating top management of potential threats. The owners of critical infrastructure and key resources have a duty to confront homegrown terrorism and the insider threat.

A lovely thought, that, but how are private business managers to get access to the kind of information necessary to identify secret jihadis who are American citizens and give no sign in their outer lives of their inner inclinations and, eventually, plans?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-19 16:25|| 2008-05-19 16:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The answer is a few paragraphs above, or so the author intended I think:

It is anticipated that the report will discuss the need for the private sector to acknowledge these threats and risks and to take proactive steps to mitigate them.

This is the first step. So long as private sector leaders see this as a foreign/government issue we are incredibly vulnerable. Once they acknowledge the threat, then the report will provide recommendations on what they can do:

The recommendations to corporate America will likely focus on the need for increased education and heightened awareness, meaningful employee screening with assistance from the federal government by way of access to criminal history records, modifications to existing technology and cyber security policies and standards, and information sharing. The report is also expected to provide a library of resources to help further educate the private sector.

Some private sector organizations are working this sort of thing but way too many are oblivious to their vulnerabilities and the potential for major economic and other destruction.

Posted by lotp 2008-05-19 16:35|| 2008-05-19 16:35|| Front Page Top

#3 To me those paragraphs do not communicate well -- I don't respond well to passive language, taking it to imply a passive attitude, even when that isn't intended. Hopefully I am an exception.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-19 16:49|| 2008-05-19 16:49|| Front Page Top

#4 I know from personal experience that Homeland Security ignores substantiable complaints that are posted on their website tip form. What GWOT?

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-19 18:39|| 2008-05-19 18:39|| Front Page Top

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