Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/federal-agencies-embrace-new-technology-and-strategies-to-find-the-enemy-within/2014/03/07/22ce335e-9d87-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html

Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within
By Christian Davenport, Published: March 7

After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence strategies at their own employees to root out spies, terrorists or leakers.

Agencies are now monitoring their computer networks with unprecedented scrutiny, in some cases down to the keystroke, and tracking employee behavior for signs of deviation from routine. At the Pentagon, new rules are being written requiring contractors to institute programs against “insider threats,” a remarkable cultural change in which even workers with the highest security clearances face increased surveillance.

The “if you see something, say something” mind-set of the post-9/11 world has fully arrived in the workplace, with new urgency following high-profile leaks such as the revelations of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

“People’s sensitivity to this has changed substantially,” said Lynn Dugle, president of a Raytheon business unit that markets an insider threat detection system called SureView. “I can tell you five years ago, when we were talking to agencies or companies about insider threat, we would normally be talking to (chief information officers) who were under budget stress. . . . And that was a very tough sell. Now we see boards of directors and CEOs really understanding what the threat can mean to them, and the risk it poses to them.”

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1. Not The Onion.

but hilarious anyway.