Protecting against Insider Threats at DOD
(Excerpted from GAO-15-544)
We recommended that DOD provide more information to its services, improve guidance, and take other steps to help better protect classified information and systems. We also looked at what steps DOD took to address problems identified after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, as well as the 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting. We recommended that DOD encourage information sharing, and improve how it tracks the implementation of recommendations from the 2009 Fort Hood review.- Questions on the content of this post? Contact Joe Kirschbaum at kirschbaumj@gao.gov.
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