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ISSN: 2769-5166
Scholarship In Practice
October 23, 2024 PDT
The Design and Implementation of an Insider Threat Maturity Model
Andrew StewartMark Handy
An insider threat maturity model, created by synthesizing recommendations from multiple best practice documents. The design of the model and its application at a large multinational investment bank are detailed.

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Introducing CITRAP's new Editor-in-Chief
Introducing CITRAP’s new Editor-in-Chief
After a lengthy search, CITRAP has identified a new Editor-in-Chief and will resume publication. Dr. Kristin Schneider is the Threat Lab's newest program manager.
Changes to CITRAP's Editorial Board
Changes to CITRAP’s Editorial Board
Dr. Frank Greitzer is stepping down as Editor-In-Chief of CITRAP because the Editor-In-Chief role was recently identified as inherently governmental.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Call for papers for Counter-Insider Threat Research and Practice (CITRAP)
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Letter from the Editor in Chief
August 02, 2022 PDT
Introduction to CITRAP’s Inaugural Issue
Frank L. Greitzer

Introducing Counter-Insider Threat Research and Practice, the Editor-in-Chief discusses the journal’s scope, its intended social-science based research and operational contributions, and the research- and practitioner-oriented articles comprising the inaugural issue.

Original Research
August 02, 2022 PDT
The Critical Pathway to Insider Risk Model: Brief Overview and Future Directions
Mark F. LenzenwegerEric D. Shaw

Challenges and thoughts on the future evolution of the Critical Pathway to Insider Risk (CPIR) framework, which is widely used to describe characteristics and contributing factors underlying insider threat incidents.

Multiple Approach Paths to Insider Threat (MAP-IT): Intentional, Ambivalent and Unintentional Insider Threats Original Research
August 02, 2022 PDT
Multiple Approach Paths to Insider Threat (MAP-IT): Intentional, Ambivalent and Unintentional Insider Threats
Jordan Richard SchoenherrKristoffer Lilja-LolaxDavid Gioe

Extending the notion of insider threats beyond characterizing maladaptive behaviors and psychopathologies to reflect normal psychological mechanisms for coping with perceived discrepancies in attitudes or behaviors versus those of groups.

Reducing Insider Risk Through Positive Deterrence Scholarship In Practice
August 02, 2022 PDT
Reducing Insider Risk Through Positive Deterrence
Andrew P. MooreCarrie GardnerDenise M. Rousseau

Why and how insider risk management programs should consider a positive deterrence approach to promote the mutual interests of employees and their organization in ways that reduce insider risk.

Domestic Extremism: How to Counter Threats Posed to Critical Assets Scholarship In Practice
August 02, 2022 PDT
Domestic Extremism: How to Counter Threats Posed to Critical Assets
Jessica BawejaMadelyn P. DunningChristine Noonan

This study on protecting critical assets against domestic extremism threats emphasizes the importance of appropriate prevention and response measures and early intervention for insiders potentially vulnerable to radicalization.

Scholarship In Practice
August 02, 2022 PDT
Seven (Science-Based) Commandments for Understanding and Countering Insider Threats
Eric L. Lang

Seven science-based “commandments” provide overarching human factors and social science insights and recommendations for understanding and countering insider threats.

Perspectives
August 02, 2022 PDT
Counter-Insider Threat: A Process of Evolution… and a Point of Departure
Brad Millick

A Department of Defense stakeholder’s perspective on the mission and evolution of its counter-insider threat program.

Welcome to the Counter-Insider Threat Research and Practice Journal’s Inaugural Issue Perspectives
August 02, 2022 PDT
Welcome to the Counter-Insider Threat Research and Practice Journal’s Inaugural Issue
Robert Rohrer

The National Insider Threat Task Force welcomes the publication of this new journal to provide a needed social/behavioral science perspective on the counter-insider threat mission.

The Security Net, Safety Net, and Stakeholder Net for Countering Insider Threat Perspectives
August 02, 2022 PDT
The Security Net, Safety Net, and Stakeholder Net for Countering Insider Threat
Eric L. Lang

Research by PERSEREC and its Threat Lab promotes collaboration among organizational leaders, policy-makers, operations managers, HR specialists, security professionals, social scientists, and education/training experts to understand and counter insider threat.