Major update to government-wide cyber manual takes on WikiLeaks
February 29, 2012
Worried that an employee may be about to take your agency's digital crown jewels to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks? The draft edition of a biennial catalog of federal information security standards advises agencies on how to spot conduct that may signal an employee plans to spill sensitive information to the public. The last time the National Institute of Standards and Technology updated Special Publication (SP) 800-53 in August 2009, no one had heard of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier who allegedly divulged a mass of classified materials to WikiLeaks.
Major update to government-wide cyber manual takes on WikiLeaks