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5 Homeland Security Rev. 135 (2011)
Protecting Critical Infrastructures: Screening Workers for Private Sector Security-Related Employment

handle is hein.journals/homlndsr5 and id is 139 raw text is: The Homeland Security Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2017). Protecting Critical Infrastructures: Screening Workers for Private Sector Security-Related Employment BY JOHN WINN, JD, LLM* Introduction The quality and trustworthiness of human capital is the single most important factor in homeland security. In 2003, the National Security Advisory Council NIAC defined insider threats to critical infrastruc- ture' as one or more individuals with the access and/or inside knowl- edge of a company, organization, or enterprise that would allow them to exploit the vulnerabilities of that entity's security, systems, services, products, or facilities with the intent to cause harm.2 As the share of critical infrastructure in private hands continues to grow and diversify, threats and vulnerabilities to those systems are also increasing. Mitigation of threats to cyber and telecommunications systems, energy, medicine, bio-technology, chemical, banking, finance, transportation (including HAZMAT), and others requires deterrence, detection, and prevention. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) indicates that attacks by trusted insiders will become an increasingly serious threat as increased information sharing results in greater access to, and distribution of, sensitive information.I Security screening entails the collection of a minimum sufficiency of background data regarding conduct, character, and other relevant * John Winn, JD, LLM is an Associate Professor of Business Law at the Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. Mr. Winn also served in the Army, Judge Advocate General's Corps UAG) from 1985 through 2005. Among his various military assignments, Mr. Winn was on the Law Faculty at the United States Military Academy, West Point as well as Department of Criminal Law at the Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina, The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Winn has published and lectured in the fields of National Security Law, Health Law, Cyber-Law, and Professional Ethics. 135

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