Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Dive deeper into monthly BTAC Bulletin topics to further your understanding of insider threat and behavioral threat assessment and management. BTAC is a multidisciplinary team of insider threat professionals who assess risk and provide tailored, case-specific recommendations in threat management, behavioral science, cyber, counterintelligence, law enforcement, and employee management relations. Each month, BTAC co-hosts Pete Lapp and Dr. Kristin Schneider go “Beyond the Bulletin” with a special guest to discuss research, best practices, and insights on the topics that will drive your insider threat programs closer to full maturity.
Dec 8
In this episode, Pete and Kristin talk with special guest Unit Chief Dr. Karie Gibson from the FBI’s famed Behavioral Analysis Unit about the often-overlooked topic of humiliation and how it can motivate acts of targeted violence. Karie, who is a certified FBI profiler and published scholar on the topic of targeted violence, tolerates Pete’s obvious fanboy over the BAU, her, and Silence of the Lambs, but thankfully Kristin keeps him on topic.
Nov 13
Introducing the BTAC, Pete and Kristin sit down with DITMAC Director James Shappell to talk about the BTAC, the Bulletin, the podcast, and his vision for all of these. They also dive into James, what drew him to insider threat, and what he really wanted to be growing up. Finally, they talk some Yankees baseball, but that’s a little bit of a touchy subject…