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Are Your Staff Fraudbusters? |
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Do your staff know not to click on suspicious emails? Can they recognize the signs and various elicitation styles practiced by those wishing to do harm? Do they only practice their fraudbusting at work?
If an individual compromises his or her home computer and then brings a flash drive or other media to work or FTPs (File Transfer Protocal) information to their work computer, then their work station can also become compromised. Thus a domino effect begins....
Personnel security specialists who provide additional services to their staff such as information on how to protect children, family, and elderly parents in addition to how to stay safe at work or when traveling build rapport and increase the value of security to the facility as a whole.
How can you build up a library of resources to address this need? Consider the following:
The FBI website (www.fbi.gov)
OnGuard Online
Opting out of Pre-Screened Offers
http://www.annualcreditreport.com is the ONLY authorized online source for you to get a free credit report under federal law.
The Federal Trade Commission
The above are only a few of the resources you can find to assist in providing more relevance and generating goodwill toward your security department.
If you would like assistance in generating a staff briefing or would like one customized to your facility, please give me a call at (512) 650-4819 or send me an email requesting more information. |
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Social Engineering & Social Networking |
Have you briefed your staff and management on Suspicious Contacts, the Counter Intelligence threat your company may be facing, on Social Engineering -- explaining the what and how? Have you role-played with them so that they can come to understand that it can really happen? Are you bold enough to send in a stranger to test them and their security awareness? How often do you examine the office trash before the cleaning crew picks it up? Found proprietary items or ITAR marked items just thrown away instead of shredded? Is your management aware of just what kind of information is heading out the door in the trash can, emails, instant messages, postings on the internet, or oral communications at lunch or after work?
If your company, management, and staff, are new to the varied threats you now face as a DoD Contractor, you should visit the DSS website (www.dss.mil) and download the four trifold brochures mentioned in the Left column of the website. As FSO, you can ask your DSS CI Rep or your FBI contact to give you a briefing. If your client is one of the military branches or one of the three (3) letter agencies, you may be able to ask your Cognizant Security Officer for a briefing.
Then there is always the consultant or contractor (like AJ's Consulting) who has specialized in researching these type of threats and the differing ways to reach your staff and management. If I may be of assistance on this or any other Personnel Security topic, please do not hesitate to call upon me, schedule a training class, or purchase a customized briefing. |
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Sweethearts & Reporting Responsibilities |
Are your staff familiar with their responsibility to inform you of continuing contact with foreign nationals -- including dating one or an immediate family member dating or marrying one. This relates to foreign influence and can have an impact on his or her clearance status.
Even if your staff members would not dare consider dating or marrying a foreign national -- have they kept you updated with their marital status? Do they host foreign students? Are they roommates -- even if their relationship is not a spouse-like one?
Have they informed you along with human resources when their address and/or phone numbers change?
Would you like a one-page handout to use as a reminder of their reporting obligations? Request a customizable 20 Reporting Responsibilities of a Cleared Individual and/or a customized briefing on Reporting Responsibilities. |
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Charlotte, NC |
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