Webinar Series
This webinar series seeks to provide resources to help practitioners stay ahead of the game.
Featured Webinar
Dr. Gary Ackerman Presents:
Advanced Red Teaming to Evaluate and Enhance ITM Processes
- Wednesday, 17 September 2025
- 10:00 EDT (16:00 CEST) – 11:00 EDT (17:00pm CEST)
- Contact Us: 908Events@pnnl.gov
Description
Multiple risk assessments, as well as empirical evidence, indicate that insiders continue to pose a major threat to nuclear security. At the same time, red teaming, the process of emulating adversary actions in order to improve defenses, has long been utilized to explore emerging threats, identify unforeseen vulnerabilities and test existing defenses. This session will explore how new techniques of red teaming, which can be conducted experimentally and at scale, can be applied to both understanding and mitigating insider threat management programs, especially in the nuclear sector.
Dr. Gary Ackerman
Gary Ackerman, PhD, is a Professor of Homeland Security at the University at Albany (SUNY) and the CEO of Nemesys Insights, LLC, a strategic analysis and advisory company. He is the founder of the Center for Advanced Red Teaming, and the Unconventional Weapons and Technology Division of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Ackerman’s research focuses on understanding how terrorists and other adversaries make tactical, operational and strategic decisions, particularly regarding innovation in their use of weapons and tactics. He has done extensive research on emerging nuclear threats and has testified on terrorist motivations for using nuclear weapons before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. Dr. Ackerman has headed more than fifteen large government-sponsored research projects in the past ten years dealing with various aspects of national security policy and operations. He is the co-editor of Jihadists and Weapons of Mass Destruction (2009), the editor of “Designing Danger: Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors” (special issue of the Journal of Strategic Security, 2016) and author of over seventy publications, including being published in both Science and Nature.
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Previous Webinars
Dr. Helge Kröger Presents: Concerning Explosives and Radioactive Materials Stashes
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Description
This presentation will underline the importance of developing strategies to find possible insiders by reviewing two recent cases where radioactive materials were in the possession of people with knowledge of how to make explosives. The cases also show that material which has gone missing in the past cannot be assumed to be gone for good. Minimizing the use of radioactive materials wherever possible is a way to prevent the misuse of such material in a dirty bomb scenario.
Dr. Helge Kröger
Dr. Kröger is the Section Head for Safety and Security of Radiation Sources at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BFS) for the Federal Republic of Germany. He started at BFS in 2006 as a scientific advisor where he worked on licensing of transport casks for spent nuclear fuel for five years. Dr. Kröger has worked on NORM in building materials for three years and on defense nuclear hazards for two years. He spent time working at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety as a scientific advisor.
Frank Greitzer Presents: Exploring Predictive Analytic Threat Assessment Models for Proactive Insider Threat Mitigation
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Description
Based on two decades of research, this presentation will discuss technical challenges and recent insights in developing and testing behavioral science-based models for proactive insider threat mitigation. Dr. Greitzer will describe the SOFIT insider threat indicator ontology, which provides a foundation for hierarchical, pattern-based models; review what expert knowledge elicitation studies have revealed about dynamic properties of potential risk indicators; and discuss recent approaches for developing and testing models that reflect how human experts think about and analyze this complex threat assessment problem.
Frank L. Greitzer
Frank L. Greitzer is the Chief Behavioral Scientist for Cogility Software and the founder and principal scientist of PsyberAnalytix. After earning a BS in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and MA and PhD degrees in psychology at UCLA, he worked as a research scientist for the U.S. Department of Defense and for the aerospace industry prior to serving for twenty years as a Chief Scientist in cognitive informatics at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In 2012, he founded PsyberAnalytix to support research and consulting in counter-insider threat. Currently, Dr. Greitzer supports development and deployment of counter-insider threat tools for U.S. government applications. Dr. Greitzer’s contributions to research and practice include numerous journal articles, conference papers, and invited talks. He served as editor-in-chief for the inaugural issue of the journal, Counter-Insider Threat Research and Practice.
Kim Covent Presents: Cross-Industry Perspective on Mitigating Insider Threats
Wednesday, 26 February 2024
Description
This presentation provides an overview of what is currently known about insider threats in the world of art and heritage crime—which, surprisingly, isn’t much. Through an analysis of historical and high-profile art thefts, we explore different types of insider threats, their motivations, and the various forms of risk they present. Finally, we introduce an approach to insider threat management, integrating threat analysis with a non-exhaustive overview of preventive and repressive measures, offering a structured way to mitigate these risks.
Kim Covent
Police Advisor Kim Covent has over 14 years of experience in local law enforcement. She co-created the cross-disciplinary program ‘Behind Enemy Minds’ on non-verbal communication, situational crime prevention, and customer safety. She trains and advises frontline colleagues in spotting and understanding deviant behavior and preparations for a criminal attack. She is part of a team of experts for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for their “National & International Training Courses on Preventive and Protective Measures against Insider Threats to Nuclear Material. Furthermore, she is a founding member of GRACE, the Ghent Research institute for Art & cultural heritage Crime and law Enforcement.
Dr Bill Claycomb Presents: Critical Pathway to Insider Risk
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Description
The Critical Pathway to Insider Risk is an empirically based behavior model created by Dr. Eric Shaw and the CERT Insider Threat Group. The model is used by numerous insider threat programs to help identify potential risk indicators of malicious insider behavior. This webinar will cover initial development of the model, studies conducted to validate it, and how insider threat programs use the model operationally.
Dr Bill Claycomb
Dr Bill Claycomb is a Principal Cyber Advisor for the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s National Initiative for the Advancement of Cybersecurity and serves as the Principal Researcher for the CERT Division’s National Insider Threat Center. He leads multidisciplinary projects related to cyber security and human behavior, primarily investigating novel techniques for detection, prevention, and mitigation of insider threats for government and industry. Prior to joining the SEI, he pioneered early efforts for preventing insider attacks on enterprise information systems at Sandia National Laboratories. Bill has published numerous peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, served as Steering Committee Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Research for Insider Threats (WRIT), served as Associate Editor for a special issue on Insider Threats for the ACM Journal on Digital Threats – Research & Practice, and is an Associate Editor for the inaugural issue of Counter Insider Threats: Research and Practice.
