Technological, Social, and Economic Trends are Increasing U.S. Vulnerability to Insider Espionage

Kramer, Lisa A.; Heuer, Richards J.; Crawford, Kent S.

doi:10.1037/e454452006-001

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“…Despite a growing body of research into the psychology and motivation of insiders, it is difficult to predict who will commit security fraud (Kramer, Heuer and Crawford, 2005). Shaw and Fischer (2005) noted that most of the threats in their study could have been prevented by timely and effective action to address the anger, pain, anxiety, or psychological impairment of perpetrators, who exhibited signs of vulnerability or risk well in advance of the crime: [Shaw and Fischer, 2005, pp.…”

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Identifying at-risk employees: A behavioral model for predicting potential insider threats

Greitzer¹,

Kangas²,

Noonan³

et al. 2010

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SummaryA model was developed to assess employees' behavioral manifestations of a number of psychological and personality predispositions that are hypothesized to indicate an increased risk of insider abuse. This psychosocial model is based on case studies and research literature on factors and correlates associated with behavioral precursors of individuals committing insider crimes. In many of these crimes, managers and other coworkers observed that the offenders had exhibited signs of stress, disgruntlement, or other issues, but no alarms were raised. Barriers to using such psychosocial indicators include the inability to recognize the signs and the failure to record the behaviors so that they can be assessed.The model has been implemented as a Bayesian belief network, designed with the help of human resources staff experienced in evaluating workplace behaviors. We conducted an experiment to assess the agreement of the model's risk assessment output with judgments of human resources and management professionals on the relative insider threat risks of a collection of sample scenarios. The model exhibited strong agreement with judgments of the human experts, suggesting that it has potential as a tool to raise an alarm about employees who pose higher insider threat risks. While additional testing is needed, we suggest that combining this type of analysis with more traditional cyber/workstation monitoring tools can ease the processing burden and improve performance of computer-assisted insider threat monitoring and detection.v

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Identifying at-risk employees: A behavioral model for predicting potential insider threats

Greitzer¹,

Kangas²,

Noonan³

et al. 2010

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“…This raises one of the most serious and vexing problems in contemporary counterespionage, the insider threat (Kipp, 2001;Smith, 1990). A recent analysis of U.S. espionage cases by DoD's Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC) suggests that the threat posed by internal espionage, for a variety of reasons, has increased in recent years (Kramer, Heuer, & Crawford, 2005). This threat presents both a risk and an opportunity to CI efforts.…”

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Psychological Support to Defense Counterintelligence Operations

Shumate

Borum

2006

Military Psychology

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The practice of providing psychological or behavioral science support to counterintelligence operations is relatively new, but actively evolving. Psychologists-some of whom refer to themselves as operational psychologists-provide assessments for, and consultations to, operators, case officers, service members, and others on psychological or behavioral issues relevant for planning, managing, or terminating elements of an operation and handling human assets. Specifically, they may conduct direct or indirect risk assessments, offer perspectives on source recruitment and handling, or support interrogations and other information-gathering activities. Counterintelligence's focal areas, currently, are counterespionage and counterterrorism. We describe how psychologists have provided value-added support to each of those Department of Defense missions.

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“…For instance, according to [15] insider threats has been referred to as an action to harm by trusted individual to the organization. Some of the researcher relates psychology and motivation for human to make this kind of threat shows that, the fact remains as it was difficult to predict who will perform or commit securities fraud [16] and severe employment crises contributed to exhibited signs of dissatisfaction and serious personnel problems months aforementioned to a threat [17]. The aim of this research is to assess an employee's behavior associated with the risk of insider abuse with the use of prototype psychological model [15].…”

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An Insider Threat Categorization Framework for Automated Manufacturing Execution System

Mohammad

Yassin

Ahmad

et al. 2019

IJIES

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Insider threats become one of the most dangerous threats in the cyber world as compared to outsider as the insiders have knowledge of assets. In addition, the threats itself considered in-visible and no one can predict what, when and how exactly the threat launched. Based on conducting literature, threat in Automated Manufacturing Execution Systems (AMESs) can be divided into three principle factors. Moreover, there is no standard framework to be referring which exist nowadays to categorize such factors in order to identify insider threats possible features. Therefore, from the conducted literature a standard theoretical categorization of insider threats framework for AMESs has been proposed. Hence, three principle factors, i.e. Human, Systems and Machine have considered as major categorization of insider threats. Consequently, the possible features for each factor identified based on previous researcher recommendations. Therefore, via identifying possible features and categorize it into principle factors or groups, a standard framework could be derived. These frameworks will contribute more benefit specifically in the manufacturing field as a reference to mitigate an insider threat. Keywords—automated manufacturing execution systems insider threats, factors and features, insider threat categorization framework.

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Technological, Social, and Economic Trends are Increasing U.S. Vulnerability to Insider Espionage

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Identifying at-risk employees: A behavioral model for predicting potential insider threats

Identifying at-risk employees: A behavioral model for predicting potential insider threats

Psychological Support to Defense Counterintelligence Operations

An Insider Threat Categorization Framework for Automated Manufacturing Execution System

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