Former DIA Spy Shawnee Delaney on Recruiting Insiders for a Living

Former Spy and intelligence officer, Shawnee Delaney, join us. She is the founder and CEO of Vaillance Group (https://www.vaillancegroup.com) and spent nearly a decade with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as a decorated Clandestine Services Officer conducting Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations all over the world. 

She served four combat zone tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Case Officer and Detachment Chief and served as a Supervisory Branch Chief in Europe. 

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction and Background
• 00:30 Shawnee's Expertise in Cybersecurity and Counterintelligence
• 02:21 The Influence of Shawnee's Family and Childhood
• 04:01 Shawnee's Work with the Defense Intelligence Agency
• 08:04 Stories from Shawnee's Government Service
• 15:07 Difference Between Insider Risk and Insider Threat
• 20:01 Mitigating Insider Risk and Threat
• 24:28 Security Awareness and Training Programs
• 32:12 Building a Security Culture
• 41:27 Insider Threat Program at Uber
• 46:12 Lessons Learned from Uber
• 52:41 Upcoming Books on Insider Threat and Cybersecurity Education

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