The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has crafted a structure the agency said is designed to combat potential transportation sector insider threats.
The TSA Insider Threat Roadmap streamlines processes, identifies requirements and capabilities, and leverages partnerships to proactively mitigate insider threats risks.
The framework addresses efforts to promote data-driven decision making to detect threats, while also advancing operational capability to deter threats and maturing capabilities to mitigate threats to the transportation sector.
“Together with our interagency partners and industry stakeholders, we will maximize innovation and technology to mitigate insider threats,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said. “In addition to addressing key operational needs, implementing the Roadmap will also enhance our position as a global leader in transportation security and advance transportation security standards worldwide.”
Pekoske said the document provides a vision to guide TSA and the transportation community in mitigating risks associated with the insider and acknowledged publishing the roadmap during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a challenge. Still, the TSA intends to coordinate and plan implementation with stakeholders and security partners as the nation recovers.
“While we recognize that there is no turn-key solution to mitigating insider threat, this roadmap will help implement safeguards that incrementally raise the security baseline,” Pekoske said.