Airport security

Airport Security – Insider Employee Threats

The majority of airports in the US do not have full employee screening at secure access points, resulting a serious insider threat to airport security. Furthermore, they “are unable to demonstrate the security effectiveness of their existing employee screening efforts, which consist largely of randomized screening by Transportation Security Administration [TSA] officers or airport law enforcement personnel,” warns the House Committee on Homeland Security Majority Staff in its new report, America’s Airports: The Threat From Within.

The report stated that “access controls, the capabilities and systems in place to safeguard access to sensitive areas and the means by which employees are screened at airports were shown to be a source of vulnerability to securing the aviation sector.”