2025 Virtual DCSA Security Conference for Industry Recordings
The 2025 Virtual DCSA Security Conference for Industry recording is now available! Hear from panelists discussing policy and operational updates, personnel security updates, and industrial security integration updates from the U.S. military. This year’s theme – “The Power of Partnership: Trust in People, Facilities, Systems, and Data” emphasizes the important role of trust and building strong partnership across the defense industrial base. The DCSA conference recordings can be found here.
Psychology and Counterintelligence: A Mission Critical Intersection
Save the date! Catch CDSE’s latest offering, Psychology and Counterintelligence: A Mission Critical Intersection webinar Thursday, May 22 from 1-2:30 p.m. Hear from a panel of subject-matter experts as they discuss psychology-based research and consultation centered on why trusted insiders are vulnerable to foreign intelligence recruitment. Registration for the webinar can be found here.
Getting Started Seminar for Facility Security Officers
Haven’t signed up for the next Getting Started Seminar (GSS) for Facility Security Officers (FSOs) June 9, at this year’s NCMS Annual Training Seminar? It will be here before you know it! This course is not only a great way to get started as a new FSO, but also a way for experienced FSOs to keep informed on industrial security guidance and emerging trends. Working with other security professionals offers great networking opportunities while exploring security topics through practical exercises. Learn more about the DD 254, insider threat, reporting requirements, counterintelligence, security and contractor reviews, security training and briefings, and personnel security. For more information on this seminar and how to register, visit the course page here.
Advanced National Security Adjudication Ps301.10 VILT
Don’t miss CDSE’s Advanced National Security Adjudication virtual instructor-led course June 02-12. Students will learn the basis and application of due process in unfavorable national security determinations. Those who attend the course will analyze, identify and adjudicate significant derogatory information during initial, post-adjudicative and reconsideration reviews. Recommended attendees include DOD civilian and military personnel who perform due process duties with national security eligibility determinations for access to classified information or assignment to sensitive duties. Certain prerequisites apply. Course information and registration information can be found here.
Applied Mindfulness for Insider Threat Professionals’ Webinar
Practicing healthy mental habits can often be overlooked to the detriment of national security. As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, CDSE’s Applied Mindfulness for Insider Threat Professionals webinar examines good mindfulness techniques and their benefits to mental and physical health. It examines negative assumptions that prevent people from using these techniques, and ways Insider Threat professionals can easily incorporate them into their busy routines. To learn more, visit the webinar page here.
The Pulse
Don’t forget to check out CDSE’s other publication, the Pulse. April's edition discusses a recent congressional subcommittee hearing on the impact of supply chain threats, and how these threats can be mitigated. Also, learn about new job aids, education courses, and much more. You can find the April edition here.
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