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Are there? I've done some hiring and I don't recall any procedures in place for the detection of foreign intelligence assets. I suppose it is possible that I ha
by nsxwolf 6y ago
Are there? I've done some hiring and I don't recall any procedures in place for the detection of foreign intelligence assets. I suppose it is possible that I have never worked for a serious organization.
- qbasic_forever 6y agoSecurity clearances would help, but obviously that's not something that's going to be tenable for all companies. I think the main way to prevent issues is to just assume at any time you could be infiltrated. Don't mistrust all your employees, but don't live with lax security policies that allow a person to get away with something undetected.
- vitus 6y agoGoogle learned this the hard way, between the Snowden revelations and China's cyberattacks. Audit trails are important, as is, um, not giving read access to user data without really really good justifications. Even beyond espionage, employees could stalk personal contacts (as happened at Uber in 2016 and Facebook in 2018).
- sanderjd 6y agoMy reading of the comment was that the protections are in the form of limiting what insiders can do / auditing what they do, rather than in detecting them during the hiring process.