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Protecting the UK is everyone's business...What can the UK learn from Sweden’s Total Defence policy, which encourages citizens to take responsibility for the country's safety? PA Consulting's Decisive Decade series looks at adopting a citizen-centric approach to national security.

"Overvetting seems to be part and parcel of how the SSA operates, leading inevitably to backlogs. The ad-hoc committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill heard from the SSA that all successful applicants for positions in the public service could, potentially, be vetted. The vetting process has lost focus. Far from contributing to the fight against crime, this loss of focus is hampering it. A related problem is that the national intelligence structures, including the SSA, have a very long history of overclassifying information. For instance, the criteria for information to be considered “top secret” in the MISS are broad." Read more: https://lnkd.in/gMbBttDz

"Overvetting seems to be part and parcel of how the SSA operates, leading inevitably to backlogs. The ad-hoc committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill heard from the SSA that all successful applicants for positions in the public service could, potentially, be vetted. The vetting process has lost focus. Far from contributing to the fight against crime, this loss of focus is hampering it. A related problem is that the national intelligence structures, including the SSA, have a very long history of overclassifying information. For instance, the criteria for information to be considered “top secret” in the MISS are broad." Read more: https://lnkd.in/gMbBttDz

"Overvetting seems to be part and parcel of how the SSA operates, leading inevitably to backlogs. The ad-hoc committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill heard from the SSA that all successful applicants for positions in the public service could, potentially, be vetted. The vetting process has lost focus. Far from contributing to the fight against crime, this loss of focus is hampering it. A related problem is that the national intelligence structures, including the SSA, have a very long history of overclassifying information. For instance, the criteria for information to be considered “top secret” in the MISS are broad." Read more: https://lnkd.in/gMbBttDz

As an advocate of all things people-led... what can we learn from Sweden’s Total Defence policy, which encourages citizens to take responsibility for the country's safety? PA Consulting's Decisive Decade series looks at adopting a citizen-centric approach to national security.

"Overvetting seems to be part and parcel of how the SSA operates, leading inevitably to backlogs. The ad-hoc committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill heard from the SSA that all successful applicants for positions in the public service could, potentially, be vetted. The vetting process has lost focus. Far from contributing to the fight against crime, this loss of focus is hampering it. A related problem is that the national intelligence structures, including the SSA, have a very long history of overclassifying information. For instance, the criteria for information to be considered “top secret” in the MISS are broad." Read more: https://lnkd.in/gMbBttDz

Checklist Alert! Confidential materials such as paper documents and hard drives can pose significant data protection risks. On #DataPrivacyDay, there's no better time to run through our checklist and help make sure that your business is protected. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eDaF6crC #ProtectWhatMatters

Today, the President issued a groundbreaking Executive Order to address the #nationalsecurity risks posed by commercial transactions that enable #China, #Russia, and other countries of concern to lawfully acquire and access Americans’ sensitive personal data. Described by the White House as “the most significant executive action any President has ever taken to protect Americans’ data security,” the E.O. fills critical gaps in existing authorities. For years, the U.S. Government has warned that adversaries increasingly view Americans’ sensitive personal data as a strategic resource and are trying to acquire it. That data can be used to engage in malicious cyber-enabled activities, espionage, and blackmail, to build profiles on and target individuals and groups for surveillance and influence, and for other nefarious purposes. Big-data analytics, #AI, and other technological developments exacerbate these risks, making it easier, cheaper, and more effective to manipulate and use this data. Even as the U.S. Department of Justice works to prosecute and address hacking and other illicit means of obtaining this data, it remains legal to acquire this data through commercial relationships. Geolocation data, genomic data, health and financial data, and other #sensitivedata is for sale on the open market. Countries of concern also have legal and political systems to compel or coerce companies and individuals subject to their jurisdiction to give them access to sensitive data as part of vendor, #investment, employment, and other commercial relationships with U.S. persons. Why engage in complicated hacking when you can compel a company to provide access? Why compel access when the data can be bought? While existing authorities like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and Team Telecom allow these #datasecurity risks to be addressed on a case-specific basis for discrete kinds of activities, no existing laws comprehensively and prospectively address these risks. This E.O. starts the process of changing that. The E.O.’s cornerstone directs the Department of Justice to implement a targeted new national-security regulatory program to prohibit and restrict classes of data transactions that pose unacceptable national-security risks of enabling countries of concern to access bulk sensitive personal data or certain data on U.S. Government personnel and locations, whether directly or through companies and individuals subject to their jurisdiction, control, ownership, or direction. DOJ’s National Security Division has published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking laying out more than 90 pages of details on the contemplated program and seeking public comment. Want more? Visit the Foreign Investment Review Section’s website, where you can review the E.O., ANPRM, fact sheets and press releases, and other information as we implement this critical new authority. #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #riskmanagement #corporatecompliance #foreigninvestment

If you answer any of these data vulnerability questions with a yes, you're at risk. These are the types of sensitive information that require robust protection measures to safeguard your business (and your customers). We can help! https://hubs.la/Q02rpP530