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Item COMBATING INSIDER THREATS: AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT UNITED STATES INSIDER THREAT POLICIES AND NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS(2014-05-05) Porter, Michael Lawrence; Porter, Michael Lawrence; Ehlers, Robert S; Dailey, Jeffrey D; Phelps, James R; Zamora, Manuel FIn recent years, America has seen a rise in insider threat related incidents. Insider threats are individual with placement and access to critical infrastructures, military units, and the government and their supporting agencies who have turned against and targeted their parent organization aiding a foreign power or international terrorist organization. Understanding this, this paper analyzes how successful the United States Intelligence Community has been in responding to insider threats. For this thesis, literature will serve as a base for establishing doctrinal knowledge, with interviews, with current members of the IC working on insider threat issues, supplementing knowledge gaps about real world application. This paper has found that US policies in the past five years have made great advances in addressing insider threats problems, but there is room for improvement. These improvements will be difficult to adopt because of the impediments to reform, but are necessary to adequately counter insider threats.Item Evaluating Cyber war(2010-12) Lee, Jonathan Iming; Wagner, R. Harrison (Robert Harrison); Trubowitz, PeterRichard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake’s book, Cyber war, claims to identify a new threat and vulnerability in the United States. By examining the points they make and evaluating them in the context of the first cyber attack, STUXNET, we shall conclude that the technical argument is correct; however the overall argument is incomplete. What they fail to emphasize is the amount of human intelligence involved in committing a successful cyber attack, and the extent to which having intelligence operations greatly enhances a state's cyber capabilities.