Classified information in the United States

Insiders represent the greatest threat to any information systems. The majorities of insiders have the proper security clearances, have signed the non-disclosure agreement, are firmly loyal to the United States, and know that they are obligated to protect the nation's secrets and sensitive information. The insiders are granted certain authorities and trust and have the ability to abuse their authorized access to exploit or otherwise misuse information systems. Imagine a federal employee is disdained

Introduction: Thomas Andrew Drake, a man who was a former senior executive of U.S. NSA (National Security Agency), a decorated United States Air Force And Navy veteran and a whistleblower. In 2010, Thomas Andrew Drake was alleged with mishandling of documents, rarest of the Espionage act in the history of United States. Defenders of Drake claim that he was instead being prosecuted for challenging the trailblazer project. In 2001, exactly on the day of 9/11 he was appointed as the Signals Intelligence

In “Assessing the First Amendment as a Defense for WikiLeaks and Other Publishers of Previously Undisclosed Government Information,” Janelle Allen explores whether WikiLeaks should be entitled to the same protections that traditional media outlets are given when they publish classified information. In her work, she goes over two possible avenues that the government can take if it wants to silence WikiLeaks; the two options are: prior restraint (censorship) and the Espionage Act. Allen, in order to

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was starting to lead towards nuclear war. President Eisenhower started to become fearful of these types of events and looked towards using agencies to uncover the secrets of the Soviets. The Central Intelligence Agency or CIA was formed in the United States, and the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopanosti (Committee for State Security) or KGB was formed in the USSR. Both of the agencies conducted covert operations and were able to infiltrate

Currently, ECI does not house any classified material, documentation or networks. As a government contractor, ECI employs its staff with work locations designated based on the contractual agreement. All of ECI’s contractual work (classified) is completed on site within a SCIF environment or within government spaces. ECI Insider Threat Policy

On September 17, 1787, the Constitution was signed into law and applied to the United States of America. Since its establishment, there have been numerous situations where the government has created laws that go against the Constitution. Importantly, the First Amendment in the Constitution protects freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. The First Amendment restricts the federal government on imposing any system of prior restraint. Prior restraint allows the government to censor material

University   Communications Security Communications Security is critical to preventing adversaries from obtaining information traversing the internet. With today’s technology just about all information is being transmitted via the internet or phone lines or mobile radios. This can be anything from credit card payments for online purchases to classified secret level or above information for military operations. The technology involved in the area evolving crypto systems such as KG-175s, emissions security

late October, 2010, an independent website publisher named wikilieaks.org released documents alleging government and corporate misconduct as told by soldiers in the United States Army. This marked the single largest classified documentation leak that the United States government has ever encountered. This leak included 391,832 classified documents that covered a span of five years, from 2004-2009. I would like to take a second to dive deep into the five ethical examinations that our textbook covers

Stewart David Nozette, a “respected U.S. scientist who had worked on the Star Wars missile-shield effort and helped discover water on the moon” became a disgraced criminal. Nozette was arrested in October of 2009 for attempting to provide classified information to a person he believed to be an Israeli Mossad agent (Fitzpatrick 2009). His guilty plea brought closure to a case that required the cooperation of a significant number of U.S. agencies and departments and serves as “a prime example of what

This specific group supported Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State. They greeted me warmly and asked who I supported. I replied Bernie Sanders. I wasn’t going to lie. I thought he presented a nice platform and his