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Luncheon and Panel on Combatting the Insider Threat – MEMBERS ONLY

A panel discussion over lunch with leadership from the FBI and National Counterintelligence and Security Center. We will be joined by NCSC Director Michael Casey and Deputy Director Laura Dehmlow and FBI Assistant Director for the Counterintelligence Division Kevin Vorndran. BENS Chief Operating Officer Major General Chris Craige, USAF (Ret.) will moderate the panel.

About NCSC: NCSC is led and staffed by a cadre of professionals with decades of national security and law enforcement expertise and varied analytic, investigative, and policymaking backgrounds. Working with partners across the Executive Branch departments and agencies and the private sector, NCSC provides expertise in several mission areas including insider threat, supply chain risk management, and personnel security.

About the FBI Counterintelligence Division: They are the lead FBI division for exposing, preventing, and investigating intelligence activities in the U.S. Because much of today’s spying is accomplished by data theft from computer networks, espionage is quickly becoming cyber-based. The goals of the FBI’s counterintelligence work are to: Protect the secrets of the U.S. Intelligence Community Protect the nation’s critical assets, like our advanced technologies and sensitive information in the defense, intelligence, economic, financial, public health, and science and technology sectors Counter the activities of foreign spies Keep weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands. The goals of the FBI’s counterintelligence work are to:

  • Protect the secrets of the U.S. Intelligence Community
  • Protect the nation’s critical assets, like our advanced technologies and sensitive information in the defense, intelligence, economic, financial, public health, and science and technology sectors
  • Counter the activities of foreign spies
  • Keep weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands

Cost: $40

Organizer:

AVolp@bens.org

Registration

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Venue

BENS National Office
1030 15th St NW, Suite 200 East
Washington, DC 20005 United States
Phone
202-296-2125

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