Security Clearance Insecurity

A key focus in the national security space today remains making national security careers more accessible for diverse populations. Lauren Bacon Smith, Chief People Officer at Enabled Intelligence discusses how her company works to make national security careers more accessible to diverse audiences. From improving questions and streamlining the interview process, to providing advice and assistance around obtaining a security clearance, there are steps all companies can take to ensure a better path to a national security career.

In the second half of the program, Lindy Kyzer, ClearanceJobs and security clearance attorney Sean Bigley discuss social media and the security clearance process. If you're on Facebook, Twitter, or (goodness gracious) TikTok - what should security clearance holders expect if social media comes up in the security clearance process?

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Next week ClearanceJobs is hosting Connect 2022, the only conference designed to bring recruiters, talent acquisition professionals and security officers together to discuss issues in the national security hiring space. There is still time to register to attend. Speakers include the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, Avantus Federal, GDIT, and others across the defense industrial base and intelligence community. 

In the second half of the show security clearance attorney Sean Bigley (also a Connect speaker!) and Lindy Kyzer with ClearanceJobs discuss the issue of undocumented relatives and how a family member's immigration status affects an applicant's clearance eligibility. 

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Space is one of those topics that at least in theory unites Americans. We all love to watch a big rocket go boom - or up. But the devil is in the details, and the devil is certainly where we meet some of the issues that were recently uncovered in NASA's attempted launch of the more than 4 billion dollar Artemis rocket.

To discuss Artemis, space, and the attempt to once again get to the moon and beyond, we are joined by David Brown. David is an author of several books including The Mission, and a regular ClearanceJobs contributor.

The first time I heard of the SLS launch was while reading your book the Mission, which was released in 2021 and is just recently out on paperback. That book is about Europa, the smallest of the four Gallilean moons orbiting jupiter, but it's actually a book that speaks much more broadly to our space program, and how projects like SLS and Artemis come together. 

David was on site for the Artemis launch for both attempts - he unpacks the history of Artemis and what those who (may) see the rocket launch in the future could expect.

In the second half of the program Lindy Kyzer of ClearanceJobs and security clearance attorney Sean Bigley discuss the issue of dual citizenship for security clearance applicants. Contrary to popular opinion, dual citizenship isn't an automatic disqualifier for obtaining a security clearance, and in many cases applicants can't help their dual citizenship status. 

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News of Donald Trump possibly having classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence have led to a flood of online experts sharing their own clearances and security clearance stories. Love Rutledge, a 22-year-federal employee and host of the FedUpward podcast talks about best practices for federal employees navigating classification news in the headlines. The bottom line is you shouldn't be sharing information about the classified programs you've worked on, and you shouldn't view documents that get released unless you know they're declassified. 

In the second half of the program security clearance attorney Sean Bigley and Lindy Kyzer with ClearanceJobs discuss the OPM data breach lawsuit settlement, and why the average security clearance holder probably won't be getting any cash. 

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The Pentagon is America's largest office building, and if you work in the national security community, particularly in the Washington, D.C. metro, there is a decent chance you'll work there at some point in your career. For the majority of professionals, it is either a love or hate relationship. Perfecting the concept of 'home away from home' well before Google, the Pentagon truly is a stand-alone complex, with amenities that range from chocolate and flowers to banking and dry cleaning. ClearanceJobs' Lindy Kyzer and Aileen Xenakis Koslowski give an ode to that Pentagon work life.  

In the second half of the program Lindy Kyzer and security clearance attorney Sean Bigley discuss side hustles and your security clearance.   

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NISPOM Change 2 went into effe ct in May of 2016, codifying policies around insider threat training and mitigation for contractors within the defense industrial base. Still today questions about insider threat and how to stop the next Snowden or Alexis are ever hot topics for security offices today. Tom Langer, principal of Atlantic Security Advisors, an industrial security, risk mitigation, and leadership organization and an advisor to SIMS Software shares his insight about insider threat and why it matters across an entire organization or agency.

In the second half of the program, security clearance attorney Sean Bigley and Lindy Kyzer, ClearanceJobs, talk about the issue of prescription drug abuse and security clearances. From opioids to Adderall, prescription drugs are a growing problem for many security clearance holders and applicants. 

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Security clearance mobility is the latest topic of a white paper released by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). We sat down with Larry Hanauer, vice president for policy at the INSA, and Gregory Torres, director of personnel security at Booz Allen and chair of the personnel security working group at INSA. They discussed why security clearance mobility is a critical national security issue, including recommendations for improving the process for transferring security clearance eligibility across agencies.

In the second half of the program Lindy Kyzer, ClearanceJobs and Sean Bigley, security clearance attorney, discuss hot topics around foreign influence and security clearances and why current geopolitical issues in Russia and China are creating new concerns for security clearance applicants and holders in those countries. 

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A recent New York Times article highlighted in the prevalence of continuous evaluation or employee vetting - and how things like criminal backgroun d checks, credit checks, and public searches were no longer just a part of onboarding - but a way for employers to track insider threats. It's a reality the government has been exploring for some time and has rolled out extensively over the past several years in its Continuous Evaluation and Continuous Vetting programs for security clearance holders. ClearanceJobs chatted with Brian Dunbar, Director of Security for CACI’s National Security and Innovative Solutions Sector. Prior to that he spent a 32-year career with the CIA and served as assistant director at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center as they rolled out the government's CE program.

In the second half of the program security clearance attorney Sean Bigley and Lindy Kyzer with ClearanceJobs discuss summer travel pitfalls for security clearanc e holders. 

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