Security Executive Blog

Let’s test your knowledge of international operations. The following situation is pure fiction, but is based on issues facing businesses everyday. This situation is tricky enough with unclassified contracts, but the addition of possible classified work may complicate the issue. Try to answer the following question: As the security manager of a classified facility, you have many responsibilities including approving classified visits. Not a problems since most visit requests are handled through agency approved data bases . Besides, you have a very large staff and the process is pretty much routine until…. A program manager enters your office and informs you that her foreign customer wants to send an employee to work onsite on a classified program for six months. The program manager wants you to give her a visit request form that the foreign company can use to submit a visit request. You think about this for a moment and realize that though the situation is unusual, it should be a worka...

Order your copies from www.redbikepublishing.com /itar A few years back I wrote an article referring to the practice random computer searches occurring as travelers returned to the United States from trips abroad. Now with technology improvements, time, and the shrinking of borders in this well-connected global economy, I thought it would be a great time to revisit the idea of, “what would an adversary with limited resources be able to exploit in our computers?” This is an important question to ask as cyber-attacks are becoming more common. Now an adversary on foreign lands can gather military or dual use technical information governed by the international Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) and commercial information covered in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This cyber-attack activity should not be surprising to the well-educated security cleared employee. What may be surprising is the risk to protected sensitive information available on well-connected informatio...