Mental Health in CI/KR.
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Thank you for bringing up this important topic, and for sharing your personal connection to the recent events in Virginia Beach. It’s clear that events like the shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Building, although not directly related to critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR), do have broader implications for security and community well-being. Your perspective on the potential impact of such incidents, as well as the need to consider the human element in CI/KR protection, is insightful.
Addressing the mental health and well-being of personnel in fields related to CI/KR security is indeed crucial. The psychological stress and pressure that individuals in these roles may experience can have significant consequences, and it’s essential to support and protect their mental health. The link you provided to the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) is a valuable resource for understanding threat assessment and risk management, which can be applied to various scenarios, including those involving disgruntled employees or insider threats.
As you mentioned, focusing on issues like mental health and the longevity of personnel in these fields is a different angle, but a very relevant one. It’s important to have a comprehensive approach to security that includes not only technical safeguards but also attention to the well-being of the individuals responsible for maintaining that security.
Discussing and exploring topics beyond the typical focus on cybersecurity, natural disasters, or terrorism is essential for broadening our perspective on security issues and ensuring a more holistic approach to protecting critical infrastructure and key resources. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the link to the Secret Service’s resources. This opens up a valuable discussion on an often-overlooked aspect of security and resilience.
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Based on the openness of this weeks discussion, I wanted to talk about a topic that resonated closely with me recently. As I mentioned before in my introduction, I use to live in Virginia Beach for 6 years where many of my friends still reside (some whom are in Law Enforcement). As most of you know there was recently a shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Building. While this is not necessarily related to CI/KR, I believe that significant events like this also have a dramatic effect on the local populations in which they occur (much like a hurricane, wildfire, disaster, etc. would). While this is a stretch, the human factor, which in this case created a massive event throughout Virginia Beach, can also have similar effects if conducted across the CI/KR sector of our government. There were talks this past week about the Hawaii Missile Crisis. What if a more devastating situation were to prevent itself because of the actions of one disgruntled employee, or an insider threat due to terrorist influence? I think we need to invest more time and money into the human element of our CI/KR in regards to mental health and the longevity of our personnel in these fields. There is a lot of interesting material out there relating to topics such as this. One that I have read was an operational guide to preventing targeted school violence, much of which was also derived from the Secret Service (USSS) threat assessment model.
A good place to start is https://www.secretservice.gov/protection/ntac/ and I’m curious to see what some of you think about this, as I didn’t want to go down the typical path of cybersecurity, National disasters or terrorism.
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