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Security Clearances: What You Need to Know as a Cleared Professional

Featured Attorney: Anthony Kuhn

Published: May 31, 2023

Tags: Guideline E: Personal Conduct

How does continuous monitoring impact cleared professionals and self-reporting? The big difference is, under the periodic reinvestigations, individuals knew how long they had between investigations. So if you have a secret clearance, you’re usually good for 10 years before you get reinvestigated, and a top secret is five years, etc....

How The Misuse Of Information Technology Systems Can Have A Negative Impact On An Individual’s Security Clearance

Featured Attorney: Ryan Nerney

Published: May 27, 2023

Tags: Adjudicative Guidelines, Guideline M: Use of Information Technology Systems

The misuse of information technology systems in relation to national security clearance is governed under Guideline M, Use of Information Technology Systems in the Security Executive Agency Directive 4 (SEAD 4). Under Guideline M, the government may have security concerns related to the misuse of information technology systems as it tends to show an inability to follow laws, rules, and regulations and thus creates a heightened risk of coercion, exploitation, or duress....

Why Did Congress Ban TikTok From Federal Devices?

Featured Attorney: Dan Meyer

Published: January 17, 2023

Tags: Guideline M: Use of Information Technology Systems

The announced decision by the House of Representatives spotlights the growing social media security concern created by individuals and corporations working with, or for, the federal government. On December 23, 2022, Congress, in a bipartisan spending bill, banned TikTok from all government devices....

Will George Santos’ Lies Cost Him Access To Classified Information?

Featured Attorney: Dan Meyer

Published: January 4, 2023

Tags: Guideline E: Personal Conduct, Guideline F: Financial Considerations, Guideline I: Psychological Conditions, Guideline J: Criminal Conduct

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) has been unmasked as purveyor of so many falsehoods, it’s really hard to know where the fiction ends and the real person begins. He has also, perhaps unknowingly, walked the Republic back into a security concern it has previously failed to resolve....

Understanding Guideline B: Foreign Influence

Featured Attorney: Dan Meyer

Published: November 21, 2022

Tags: Guideline B: Foreign Influence

Many employees and contractors of the United States federal government, military personnel, government officials, and other individuals charged with upholding public safety and the public good who require access to classified information in the course of performing their duties are required to obtain and maintain a security clearance....

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