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How does a government agency know if it is compromised?

No organization can be sure that a person isn't an insider threat, which is why they operate assuming anyone could be. Physical and logical controls operate on a principle of least access, which ...
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How does a government agency know if it is compromised?

They don't know. They run background checks, they run counterintelligence operations on their own territory, they try to learn what the enemy knows about them. But in the end, they cannot know that ...
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How does a government agency know if it is compromised?

Generally, agencies with counterintelligence roles like the CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS will keep track of espionage in other, non-intelligence agencies (which is the majority of them) and if they detect ...
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