Page 33 - Publication6

and other global brands, by time the breach is discovered,
handling during the new-
days and sometimes weeks have passed.
hire onboarding process
were unsuccessful.”
Thirdly, with all the missteps the government had with the
healthcare.gov website rollout coupled with the skepticism
of NSA practices, the vendor community is going to be a A closer look at HR practices for onboarding employees

little reticent to let the government take the lead on a joint reveals that very little has changed procedurally for new
effort to corral global cybercrime. And there might even hire identification protocol in the last 30 years or so. The

be a fourth reason; vendors will be reluctant to share Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986
proprietary information that exposes the �secret sauce� established that all newly hired employees present �facially

about their respective SIEM products that deliver a valid� documentation to verify their identities. From the
competitive advantage. IRCA was borne the I-9 Employment Eligibility

Verification From.
Whatever reason you believe (or discount) from the above
list, it is unlikely that the U.S. government is going to lead This is not to say employee identity verification during

the charge anytime soon for a single national standard for new-hire onboarding was not required prior to 1986, the
managing employee new-hire identity data. procedure established a paper trail for employers with the

I-9 form – as in more documentation to secure. Dating
Where do we go from here�
farther back, the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 re-
According to the Society of Human Resource Management
introduced requirements (�Current� because of the repeal
(SHRM), 25 percent of the U.S. population experiences
of the Income Tax Act of 1916.) to withhold tax from
some type of career transition each year and many of these
personal income in response to the increasing numbers of
transitions do not stick. Half of all hourly staff leave their
soldiers on the government payroll. And going back
new jobs within the first four months. With all of the job
farther, the origins of the IRS are rooted in the Revenue Act
shuffling going on, there are a lot of new-hire packets being
of 1862 to fund the Civil War. The Revenue Act established
created each year and a lot of paperwork out there with
the role of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and
driver license scans, I-9 & W-4 forms, SSNs, and we the
eventually led to the Bureau of Internal Revenue which in
people, entrusting in our employers (and formers) to fight
1953 was renamed the Internal Revenue Service.
the good fight to secure our data.

“Several attempts to obtain The milestones of government tax collection are not the

commentary from the story here; the story is how new-hire identity protocol has
remained the same over the last 28 years since the insertion
Society for Human Resource
of the I-9 form into the process. Conversely, over this time
Management (shrm.org) on period, a digital evolution was borne then matured, and yet

best-practice document the protocol for validating a new hire�s identity has

remained basically the same – show me your photo I.D., give

CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE - ANNUAL EDITION 3