IMPACT '23 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Best Practices for Implementing Your Insider Threat Program

Monday, April 17 | 2:00 –3:15 pm
Attend this Panel Presentation to Learn How You Can
Take Your Insider Threat Program to Next-Level Effectiveness

IMPACT Panelists/Presenters
Kevin Clifton, Head of Intelligence and Risk Management, RAND Corporation
Mark Levett, Director, Corporate Security, Cyber Intelligence, L3Harris Technologies
Mark Werkema, Strategic Intelligence, Boeing

Insider threat programs are designed to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by insiders who represent a threat to national security and classified information. Now that you’ve met the baseline requirements, how does your insider threat program measure up against the best-in-class? Have you extended its reach to include CUI and valuable intellectual property? Do you get the cooperation you need to most effective?

Effective insider threat programs need more than just a great security team – they also need collaboration across a multitude of teams. Successful insider threat programs rely on teamwork across levels and functions. Join this session to hear from three of the defense industry’s top insider threat experts to learn how they built and operationalized their program.

Drive significant financial value to your organization by methodically building out an insider threat program on top of the minimum NISPOM requirements. You will learn everything you need to know to move faster and make progress even if you are challenged for resources.

Protect every stitch of valuable data from insider theft and compromise: classified, CUI and intellectual property. The panel will show you how to bring tremendous, measurable value to your business partners with a program proven to create a healthy insider threat management culture; robust data driven analysis that’s the right size for your organization; tips and techniques that encourage sensible reporting and self-reporting.

You Will Learn:

  • Simple ways to incorporate data into your program
  • Easily expand your classified program to also protect CUI and IP
  • Encourage self-reporting and a healthy insider threat culture
  • Getting buy-in from the organization
  • Creating cross-functional collaboration
  • Examples of positive security outcomes
  • Steps to incrementally develop an efficient insider threat program

Take Your Security Awareness Program from Good to Great

Monday, April 17 | 3:35 — 4:50 pm
Attend this Panel Presentation to Learn How You Can
Take Your SETA Program to Next-Level Effectiveness

IMPACT Panelists/Presenters

Roslyn Wesley, Senior Manager Audit & Compliance, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jeremy Treadwell, Co-Founder, Managing Director, Treadwell Agency

Protecting your most sensitive data takes more than just the right security tools—it takes a well-structured security awareness & education program with a simple strategy for getting people’s attention and increased cooperation.  

Every incremental step towards a great SETA program is a step towards increased risk mitigation and stronger protection of your organization’s classified data and CUI. Learn new methods that motivate employees to integrate security thinking into their everyday routine. Get ideas you can use right away, ways of thinking about how to actually reach people and get them on your side, and a simple method for planning out a proven-effective program you can scale over time.

Human behavior is the security wild card, an area of risk management that requires you to combine creativity with a methodical approach. Even just one new step towards a great SETA program is a step towards increased risk mitigation and stronger protection of your organization’s data.

People have jobs to do and a lot of responsibilities so it’s no wonder it can be hard to get their attention (never mind commitment) to integrate security thinking into their everyday routine. Influencing colleagues to give a listen to your message takes a combination of leadership, creativity, and persistence. It also takes a structured plan.

Attend this session to get ideas you can use right away, ways of thinking about how to actually reach people and get them on your side, and a simple method for planning out a proven-effective program you can scale over time.

You will learn:

  • Easy way to apply a “marketing plan” structure
  • Account for different learning styles, ages, roles
  • Tips for being creative and persuasive
  • Make progress in manageable steps
  • Account for different learning styles, ages, roles
  • How to do the right kind of briefing
  • Method for prioritizing your topics
  • Secret to building trust and open dialogue
  • Get templates to build your own marketing plan structure