ClearanceJobs chatted with Vince Virga, chairman and co-founder of Skillstorm. Skillstorm trains and deploys developers and tech talent to help assist companies and government agencies with their workforce needs. Skillstorm also works directly with talent…
July 21, 2023
A new book by Danny Olmes, President at Xcelerate Solutions, spotlights how ordinary moments can be pivotal ones. Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy details many seemingly ordinary moments that led to extraordinary shifts – in…
July 7, 2023
Insider threat topics are in the news today – but the idea of insider threat is nothing new. Policies for insider threat training and how to conform to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual…
June 23, 2023
Alisha Jordan, education director at the National Cryptologic Foundation chats with ClearanceJobs about the role of the Foundation and their current efforts to help attract young people into cybersecurity and codebreaking careers. Cyber Saturday is…
June 9, 2023
Congress began looking into security clearance procedures after classified documents were found in former president Donald Trump’s Mar a Lago residence, with new legislation released following the latest alleged leak by Airman Jack Teixeira. Critics…
May 27, 2023
Lynn Burns, president of NCMS and Sarah Turner, member of the board of directors, NCMS, discuss the upcoming NCMS 2023 Annual Seminar on this episode of Security Clearance Insecurity. NCMS is a professional security organization…
May 13, 2023
The security clearance process is in the spotlight. But the reality is the transformative effort to improve the security clearance process has been underway for the past several years, with significant new benchmarks announced just…
April 28, 2023
Retired Defense Intelligence Agency Director Vincent Stewart certainly has more than enough laurels to rest on. But he’s not sitting down, or spending too much time looking back – he’s still moving forward, with a…
April 5, 2023
Cyber hygiene, CMMC, and ransomware – oh my! – we unpack the state of the current cyber threat landscape with Kurtis Minder, CEO and founder of GroupSense, a digital risk protection agency with expertise across…
March 17, 2023
National security remains a male-dominated field, with a higher percentage of men filling a variety of roles including those in many security offices. But that’s changing, and more women aren’t just entering security careers but…
March 6, 2023
The Office of Personnel Management recently released a draft version if its new Personnel Vetting Questionnaire, an update to the SF-86, SF-85, and SF-85P forms in one, segmented package. In a period of open comment…
February 20, 2023
The intersection of counterintelligence, security clearances, and personnel vetting is what the National Counterintelligence and Security Center does. Michael Orlando, current head of NCSC talks about the current state of suitability, personnel vetting, and efforts…
February 6, 2023
Security cleared recruiting continues to be a challenge, and 2023 is poised to be the toughest year yet. Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com unpacks the macro and micro aspects of the security clearance…
January 23, 2023
Open source information is frequently discussed as the future of intelligence analysis. But too many agencies are still caught up more concerned about definitions than moving the discipline forward. Matthew Scott, senior vice president and…
January 7, 2023