NIST SP 800-137

The Pentagon thinks it can build an automated system to predict and prevent future Fort Hood-style attacks. But it’s a problem as big as big data itself.

By Patrick Tucker

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Key to DoD’s these efforts is what’s called continuous evaluation, a method to continuously monitor personnel with important clearances or access for changes that Department believes could make them insider threats, like credit problems, family issues, arrests, etc. But DoD would like to be able to subject all personnel to that sort of examination.

A recent quarterly report of the Insider Threat program suggested that 225,000 personnel would be subject to continuous evaluation by one of the CE pilot programs by the end of 2015, and 1 million by 2017. But, as recent GAO reports make clear, progress has been uneven.