No matter how you slice it, security managers are an indispensable yet under-utilized resource in many organizations. With a bit of foresight and thoughtful decision-making, that doesn’t have to be the situation.

Unfortunately, a full field background investigation uncovers, through in-person interviews with references, what a largely automated prior background investigation will not.

Obscure executive orders may be just what the doctor ordered for curing insomnia; they certainly aren’t what anyone would consider pleasure reading. Nonetheless, Executive Orders 10865 and 12968 should be required reading for all security clearance holders.

A memo released last year clarifies what security clearance holders are required to self-report. It doesn’t specify how to do so, and that may be to the clearance holder’s advantage.

Given that financial issues are the number one reason for security clearance denials and revocations, it’s no small wonder that one of the most frequent questions my office receives is how to resolve delinquent debt.

Unfortunately, where most agencies have developed a well-defined system for handling reprisal complaints, DoD’s process is muddied at best.

Fortunately, there are a few creative ways to maintain your security clearance eligibility if you find yourself facing a commercial sector opportunity you can’t refuse.

The 2017 revisions to the national adjudicative guidelines for security clearances establish a government-wide ban on using polygraph “technical calls” to deny or revoke a security clearance in the absence of “adjudicatively significant information.”

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard someone who tested positive on a random drug test claim they only used drugs once – right before their test – I’d be a rich man.

The process of taking a polygraph is stressful and nerve-wracking by design, but here are four critical things to understand before you ever set foot in an examination room.