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Whom Do You Give Access to Community?

By Milica D. Djekic

The community is a very broad term including the social, business and organizational aspects of some
group. By community we mean the members of some network that are correlated with each other through
a certain set of rules and interactions. In the best case, those parts of the group work for a benefit of their
community and anyone being damaging about the union can be recognized as an insider threat. The
appealing stuff is any insider threat cell can generate the new inner risk making the community being
harmful about itself as well as anyone else in its surrounding. In the practice, there are some best
practices in preventing, managing and responding to the insider risks, but the ongoing situation
demonstrates that we still need to learn how to tackle that concern. Today’s threats are well-implemented
into all segments of our activities and it’s only the matter of time when some of them will become the
inner risk to all. That’s nothing new for a defense community as the similar scenario has been noticed
during the history. Every novel epoch will bring the new challenges and some responses from the past
can be modified and adjusted to the current situations. The worst-case scenario with the insider threats
is they can generate the new risks literally multiplying themselves as a virus trying to infect everyone in
the group or wider. This topic is especially concerning in the area of transnational crime and terrorism as
those malicious actors can try to spread their grids nearly anywhere. In other words, they can be like a
spider attempting to catch any naive fly believing there is nothing critical about such a transparent, but

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