Joe Kirschbaum, Director of Defense Capabilities & Management, GAO

Half of the Defense Department\'s components are tracing the normal network activity of their personnel. The Pentagon is supposed to look at common user behavio...

Half of the Defense Department’s components are tracing the normal network activity of their personnel. The Pentagon is supposed to look at common user behavior to help it find cases where its employees might leak classified information. It’s part of a series of executive orders from President Barack Obama that require agencies set up their own insider-threat programs. Joe Kirschbaum, director of defense capabilities and management issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the Pentagon’s progress on its insider threat program.

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