Security clearance

SPECIAL - Anticipating Tomorrow’s Insider Threat

The answer lies in a process called Adaptive Case Management (ACM). ACM relies on high performance analytics to manage a caseload by prioritizing risk. By evolving an intermittent reauthorization process into one smooth, risk-based continuous evaluation capability, the government can more effectively evaluate people, access controls and systems and better guard against insider threats.

These modernized case management capabilities fill in the government’s current knowledge gaps with risk factors such as abnormal financial transactions, frequent visits to foreign countries or drastic lifestyle changes. In addition to solving the problems presented by intermittent review processes, this also would enable a system to prioritize reauthorizations based on an informed understanding of potential risk. Instead of dealing with cases in the order they arrived, analytics point the agency towards the cases that present the most risk.