Executive Order Responding to WikiLeaks Due Shortly

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Source: Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy

Executive Order Responding to WikiLeaks Due Shortly
August 12th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood

The Obama Administration is putting the finishing touches on a new executive order that is intended to improve the security of classified information in government computer networks as part of the government’s response to WikiLeaks.

The order is supposed to reduce the feasibility and the likelihood of the sort of unauthorized releases of classified U.S. government information that have been published by WikiLeaks in the past year.

According to an official who has reviewed recent drafts, the order addresses gaps in policy for information systems security, including characterization and detection of the insider threat to information security.  It does not define new security standards, nor does it impose the security practices of intelligence agencies on other agencies.  (“It doesn’t say, ‘go polygraph everybody’,” the official said.)

Rather, the order establishes new mechanisms for “governance” and continuing development of security policies for information systems.  Among other things, it builds upon the framework established — but not fully implemented — by the 1990 National Security Directive 42 (pdf), the official said.

Read more: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/08/eo_wikileaks.html

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