The fed goes hunting for malcontents

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Source: Infoworld

Last week, the Office of Management and Budget asked government agencies to spell out their strategies for minimizing insider risk. The memo, published by MSNBC, asked agencies to assess their security efforts and compliance to federal standards following the release of a trove of government documents, including classified State Department memos, by Wikileaks.

It's likely that federal contractors and government suppliers will also find themselves responding to this list of questions and the central issue of preventing the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified materials. In a key section of the memo, the OMB requests information on whether organizations are measuring the "trustworthiness" of their employees and whether they use a psychiatrist or sociologist to measure the unhappiness of an employee as a measure of trustworthiness.

In an effort to prevent the leak of the crown jewels, government agencies and companies with significant intellectual property may be moving to stricter management of employees, says Ken Ammon, chief strategy officer for network access control firm Xceedium.

"Historically, policy and training have been the way (organizations) have handled insiders," Ammon says. "But if you talk with the DOD (Department of Defense), their most significant threat is an intelligent and motivated insider system administrator."

Read more: http://infoworld.com/t/insider-threat/the-fed-goes-hunting-malcontents-411

[FailureToCommunicate]

1. How will this square with 'whistleblower' laws?

So much for "open and transparent"

[mbperrin]

2. The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs is finally being

established formally here. Been implicit for a long time coming now.

Well, I'll be dead in 20 years or less, but I do feel sorry for those to come who will only know a police state.

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3. When do the torture sessions and truth serum injections for the "Loyalty Checkups" begin?nt

[LiberalEsto]

4. People are "malcontent" because

their employers, managers and supervisors treat them like crap. It's gotten far worse in recent years because the bosses know they've got their workers over a barrel.

If the feds are going to start hunting for malcontents, they'd better be prepared to find an astonishingly large number if them. Brought to you by the Corporations of America.