Special to WorldTribune.com

Compiled by Bill Gertz, Geostrategy-Direct.com

A provision of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill calls on the Obama administration to step up security measures designed to defeat the “insider threat,” which has resulted in the posting of hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Internet.

Section 922 of the bill, passed last week, calls on the secretary of defense to set up a program to safely share information and mitigate insider threats to information systems. The measure calls for detecting “unauthorized access to, use of, or transmission of classified or controlled unclassified information.”

The program will include technology solutions that permit centralized monitoring and detection of unauthorized activities.

The measures include monitoring the use of external ports, read and write controls, disabling removable media ports of computers, electronic auditing and reporting of unusual activities.

The effort also will involve the use of data-loss prevention and data rights management technology aimed at preventing the unauthorized export of information from a network or to make stolen data unusable if it is exported illicitly.

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