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Applied Human Threat Management in

Cyber Industry

By Milica D. Djekic

The high-tech industry is an extremely emerging environment dealing with the sophisticated and skilled
workforce that is recruited to develop an ultimate cutting-edge technology, so far. The majority of things
done in that area of the business are highly confidential or if being a contractor with defense or space
industries, might be from a national or even global significance especially when there is a word about an
international collaboration among law enforcement, military and intelligence communities that do not
need an insider risk within their cooperators which could sell some of the projects or professional secrets
on the black market or to some of competitors and enemy countries. In other words, it’s very important
to be confident about the own human resources certainly in a field of cyber industry as those staffing
should be managed in a trustworthy, not only skilled manner in order to remain reliable and friendly about
their roles within such an employer. On the other hand, the human threat management is a branch of
security which copes with pre-, in- and post-employment screenings requiring not just a professionalism,
but also some of the background checking, as well as the entire trust management which could be truly
correlated with the in-employment screenings, so far. The human threat management is a pretty new
concept in security being in use only a couple of years and it is not yet fully developed, but more likely
seeks some pioneering effort to get better understanded and implemented into the practice. In addition,

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