Appel Cybervetting

Internet Searches for Vetting, Investigations, and Open-Source Intelligence, Second Edition
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4822-3886-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Researching an individual’s, firm’s or brand’s online presence has become standard practice for many employers, investigators, and intelligence officers, including law enforcement. Countless companies and organizations are implementing their own policies, procedures, and practices for Internet investigations, cybervetting, and intelligence. Cybervetting: Internet Searches for Vetting, Investigations, and Open-Source Intelligence, Second Edition examines our society’s growing dependence on networked systems, exploring how individuals, businesses, and governments have embraced the Internet, including social networking for communications and transactions. It presents two previously unpublished studies of the effectiveness of cybervetting, and provides best practices for ethical cybervetting, advocating strengthened online security.

Relevant to investigators, researchers, legal and policy professionals, educators, law enforcement, intelligence, and other practitioners, this book establishes the core skills, applicable techniques, and suitable guidelines to greatly enhance their practices. The book includes the outcomes of recent legal cases relating to discoverable information on social media that have established guidelines for using the Internet in vetting, investigations, and open-source intelligence. It outlines new tools and tactics, and indicates what is and isn’t admissible under current laws. It also highlights current cybervetting methods, provides legal frameworks for Internet searching as part of investigations, and describes how to effectively integrate cybervetting into an existing screening procedure.

What’s New in the Second Edition:

- Presents and analyzes results of two recent studies of the effectiveness of cybervetting

- Updates key litigation trends, investigative advances, HR practices, policy considerations, social networking, and Web 2.0 searching

- Includes the latest tactics and guidelines for cybervetting

- Covers policy, legal issues, professional methodology, and the operational techniques of cybervetting

- Provides a strengthened rationale, legal foundation, and procedures for successful cybervetting

- Contains compelling evidence that trends in legal, policy, and procedural developments argue for early adoption of cybervetting

- Presents new strategies and methodologies

Cybervetting: Internet Searches for Vetting, Investigations, and Open-Source Intelligence, Second Edition is a relevant and timely resource well suited to businesses, government, non-profits, and academia looking to formulate effective Internet search strategies, methodologies, policies, and procedures for their practices or organizations.

Zielgruppe

Corporate security directors, chief security officers (cso), internal corporate investigators, human resource professionals, business owners and recruiters, as well as private investigators, security consultants, employment agencies, vendors in the background investigations/screening industry, fraud and theft professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Appel, Edward J.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I Behavior and Technology

The Internet’s Potential for Investigators and Intelligence Officers

Introduction

Growth of Internet Use

A Practitioner’s Perspective

The Search

Internet Posts and the People They Profile

Finding the Needles

The Need for Speed

Sufficiency of Searches

Notes

Behavior Online

Internet Use Growth

Evolution of Internet Uses

Physical World, Virtual Activities

Connections and Disconnecting

Notes

Use and Abuse: Crime and Misbehavior Online

Introduction

By the Numbers?

Online Venues

Digital Delinquency

"Free" Intellectual Property

The Insider

Misbehavior Online

Notes

Internet Search Studies

Introduction

Academic Study

Study Summary

iNameCheck Cybervetting Case Study

Notes

Implications for the Enterprise

Introduction

The New User: Someone You Would Trust?

Employer Liability

Vetting, Monitoring, and Accountability

The Evolving Personnel Security Model

Notes

Section II Legal and Policy Context

Liability, Privacy, and Management Issues

Liability for Service Providers

Liability for Employers

Accountability for Employees

Notes

Laws

Introduction

Constitutional Rights

Statutes

Federal Statutes

State Statutes

Federal Rules of Evidence and Computer Records

International Treaties and Standards

US Legislative Proposals

Notes

Litigation

Introduction

Internet Search Litigation

Anonymity

Expectation of Privacy

Due Process

Libel/Defamation

Invasion of Privacy Torts

Sanctions for Public Postings

Internet Privacy for the Twenty-First Century

Admissibility of Electronically Generated and Stored Evidence

Trends and Legal Challenges to Investigative Searching

Notes

International and Domestic Principles

US and International Privacy Principles

Government Standards

Parallel Guidance: Internet Research Ethics

Notes

Professional Standards and the Internet

Introduction

ASIS Standards

National Association of Professional Background Screeners

Association of Internet Researchers

Librarians

Inside and Outside the Workplace

Reputational Risk, Public Affairs

Bottom Line

Notes

The Insider Threat

Introduction

Benevolent Big Brother

Notes

Section III Framework for Internet Searching

Internet Vetting and Open-Source

Intelligence Policy

Introduction

Legal and Ethical Limitations

Policy

Information Assets Protection

Notes

Tools, Techniques, and Training

Introduction

Training Analysts

Open-Source Intelligence Process

Quality Control

Notes

Proper Procedures for Internet Searching

Introduction

Criteria

Security

Standard Methodology

Notes

Section IV Internet Search Methodology

Preparation and Planning

Introduction

The Library

Scope Notes

Notes

Search Techniques

Introduction

Internet Content

The Browser

The Search Engine

Metasearch Engines

Finding Search Engines

Search Terms

Social and Commercial Searching

Social Networking Sites

E-Commerce

Sites

Directories

Blogs

Chat

Notes

Finding Sources

Introduction

US Government

State, County, and Local Governments

Other Government-Related

Sources

Business-Related

Sources

News

Web 2.0

Looking Up Subscribers

E-Mail

Commercial Database Providers

Notes

Automation of Searching

Introduction

Why Automate Searching?

Enterprise Search Middleware

Best-in-Class Desktop Tool

Investigative Search Tool Requirements

A Homegrown Solution

Reducing Analytical Time Using Automation

Caching and Data Mining

The Human Interface in Internet Investigations

Notes

Internet Intelligence Reporting

Introduction

Records

Content

Analyst’s Comments

Organization and Formatting

Source Citations

Attribution

Verification

Notes

Illicit Websites and Illegal Behavior Online

Introduction

Cybercrime

Child Pornography and Internet Porn

Unauthorized Use of Computer Systems

Contraband Digital Assets

Information (Cyber) Warfare

Notes

Model Cybervetting Investigative Guidelines

Introduction

Enterprise Strategy

Model Internet Search Guidelines

Authorized Internet Search (Cybervetting) Personnel

Definitions to Consider

Notes

A Model Internet Investigation Policy

Introduction

Key Considerations

Higher-Risk Candidates

Application Procedures and Forms

Legal Issues

Confidentiality

Ethics in Investigations

Disciplinary Action

Model Forms for Candidates

Notes

A Model Internet Posting Policy

Note

Internet Intelligence Issues

Introduction

Privacy

Smoking Guns

Completeness of Internet Searching

Adjudication

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward J. (Ed) Appel, Sr., is owner-principal of iNameCheck, a boutique private investigative, consulting, and training firm. He is a retired FBI special agent and executive, specializing in counterintelligence and terrorism, and served as the director of counterintelligence and security programs at the National Security Council and the White House. Appel has written numerous government-sponsored classified and unclassified counterintelligence and counterterrorism studies, lectures, and papers. Ed is a graduate of Georgetown University, the Defense Language Institute, and the National Cryptologic School, and taught at the FBI Academy and as visiting lecturer at such institutions as Carnegie-Mellon, MIT Lincoln Labs, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University.