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Closing the insider threat loop with authority

Federal Times: I’ve spent the past several months writing about building an effective and successful insider threat program. Over the last two months, we’ve looked at the topic through the lens of the three “As”: advocacy, agility, and authority. Since I’ve already covered advocacy and agility, it should come as no shock that this month’s blog focuses on the third “A”: authority.

In my experience, one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome when developing a program is convincing senior leaders to give proper authority to the head of the insider threat program. For a variety of reasons, leaders often withhold authority, wanting to keep the final say on actions to themselves. However, when the organization needs to take immediate action to respond to a threat, the extended chain of command leads to untimely or unnecessarily delayed responses. The result is confusion and failure.

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