The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released a roadmap to deter and combat potential threats from insiders across the nation’s transportation systems that emphasizes data-driven decision making to detect threats, stakeholder collaboration to deter threats, and best practices and technology innovation to mitigate threats. The TSA Insider Threat Roadmap 2020 “defines the common vision” for the transportation sector and outlines the need to work with all stakeholders, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a message included in the roadmap. “Together with our interagency partners and industry stakeholders, we will maximize innovation and technology to mitigate insider threats,” Pekoske said in a statement last Thursday announcing release of the roadmap. “In addition to addressing key operational needs, implementing the Roadmap will also enhance our position as a global leader in transportation security and advance transportation security standards worldwide.” A threat assessment included in the 18-page document says that for the most part in the U.S., sabotage, theft and smuggling have been the primary insider threats. However, it also mentions the 2016 arrest of a transit authority police officer in a U.S. city for providing support to the Islamic State although no link to a planned attack was discovered. “These incidents, and other similar cases, highlight tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by the drugs or arms smuggling insiders—exploiting insider access to bypass security measures—that could be replicated by terrorist insiders,” the assessment says.
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