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WikiLeaks Breach Forces Government Agencies to Address Challenges of Insider Threat Detection, Blue River IT Creates "Cloud Threat Detection Service"ARLINGTON, Va. --(Business Wire)-- In October 2010, WikiLeaks released more than 400,000 top secret documents compromising key intelligence operations and potentially weakening national security. The WikiLeaks breach proved that viruses and outside hackers aren't the only dangers to network security as an employee with a USB port poses an equally formidable threat to an organization's sensitive and classified information. In one such government agency, the House Intelligence Committee this week called on the Director of National Intelligence to establish an automated insider threat detection program to deter and detect unauthorized access to, or use of, classified intelligence networks. "Incidents like the unauthorized disclosure of classified information by Wikileaks… show us that despite the tremendous progress made since 9/11 in information sharing, we still need to have systems in place that can detect unauthorized activities by those who would do our country harm from the inside," said the Committee in its May 3 report on the FY 2011 Intelligence Authorization Act. Full operating capability would be required by October 1, 2013. Blue River Information Technology understands restrictions on government budgets span most if not all agencies and will handicap their ability to meet these deadlines. Blue River can protect organizations from crippling security leaks while maintaining the critical information sharing and collaboration objectives already in place. Their comprehensive Insider Threat Managed Services will help organizations avoid the high capital costs of implementing security measures and benefit from the large-scale service deployment necessary to deter another WikiLeaks debacle. Amidst Federal Budget cuts, Insider Threat Managed Services may actually boost an organization's financial and operational efficiency. Blue River's services secure sensitive and classified data quickly, without leveraging capital funds, additional training costs, or expensive software and hardware upgrades. Their flexible solutions ensure that data spillage does not occur, whether it is accidental or intentional, and that information integrity is maintained across an enterprise. And because Blue River offers this capability as a managed service, it can be discontinued at any time after the first year. About Blue River IT - Incorporating an impeccable reputation & customer commitment, Blue River specializes in a range of IT disciplines including Collaboration, Data Storage, Disaster Recovery/COOP, Server Consolidation, Data Encryption and Security. In addition, Blue River assists top tier government agencies in the most challenging of project management needs by integrating their certified engineers & architects into customized end-to-end solutions.
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