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Counterintelligence chief: Contractors ‘kicking butt’ in combating insider threats

April 14, 2017 By Andrew Smith

Though some of the most damaging exposures of classified material have come from companies working for the federal government in recent years, the intelligence community’s 100,000 contractors overall “are kicking butt” in helping agencies head off insider threats, the nation’s top counterintelligence chief said on Monday.

Anticipating threats “is a team sport,” Bill Evanina, the government’s national counterintelligence executive, told a gathering of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a nonprofit group made up of contractors and former intelligence officials. “The only way to win is a partnership, a whole-of-government, whole-of-country approach” that includes contractors and the news media as well.

“We have to get back to patriotism,” he said.

Despite incidents involving National Security Agency contractors such as Edward Snowden and Howard Martin, “we need to eliminate with urgency the idea that most insider threats are contractors,” Evanina said. “There’s no evidence” either for that, he said, or for the common notion that “millennials want to be leakers.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/defense/2017/04/counterterrorism-chief-contractors-kicking-butt-combating-insider-threats/136904

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: CIA, classified information, Commerce Dept., counterintelligence, DHS, FCC, insider threats, NSA, OPM, Treasury Dept.

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