[DoughtyOne]

How many times have see seen that headline on F.R. It seems like about every six months there's a new scandle. Just a question... do they even have a security department over there?

[Paladin2]

Sandy Burglar is in charge.

[Army Air Corps]

"do they even have a security department over there?"

I think that these guys run security:

[Calvin Locke]

What's her name, Hazel O'Leary? IIRC, the FOB/FOH that had the security contract wanted to increase his margins,
so Hazel did him a big favor and reduced the requirements for security, meaning he could cut back expenses.

[conservativeharleyguy]

:...Just a question... do they even have a security department over there"?

Of course they do, and they are all very professional.

The problem is not with the "Security Department", it's with the staff-members and the "College Campus" environment they fought for years to maintain.

You can have the most stringent security measures possible (having worked security at LANL for over 15 years, I can tell you that they do), and if the operational personnel choose to ignore or circumvent the rules, and their managers don't hold them accountable for doing so, you will have incidents like this in any organization.

It's not a "Security problem", it's a human factors problem.

If indeed there really was a compromise of classified matter, and it really is on a "thumb-drive, whoever did it has to have violated numerous policies, procedures, and circumvented at least one physical barrier just to have plugged it in, in addition to introducing an unauthorized removable media device onto a classified computer.

That's not "Security's" fault. It's that person's fault (and maybe their Manager's), and that person should be held accountable.

Do you have a better idea, or are you just talking???