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classified information technology systems, the insider threat is likely to persist due to the ever-
increasing proliferation of anti-secrecy militant groups within the information technology
community who seek to advance their own political agendas.

About the Author

Dr. Joshua Sinai is a Director of Analytics & Business
Intelligence at the Resilient Corporation (www.resilient.com) and
at its wholly-owned subsidiary, CRA (www.cra-usa.net), where
he specializes in terrorism, counterterrorism, and homeland
security studies. He has worked as an Associate
Professor/Research at VT Research Center - Arlington, Virginia
Tech (National Capital Region), which he joined in April 2010.
Dr. Sinai’s specializations include developing methodologies to
forecast terrorist warfare, root cause analysis, performance metrics in counterterrorism, and
insider threats in IT. He has more than 25 years of experience in government (including working
at Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate and, as a contractor,
at a U.S. government counterterrorism operations center). Dr. Sinai has published a pocket
handbook on active shooter prevention and more than 80 articles and book reviews on terrorism
and counterterrorism related topics, in academic publications, magazines, and newspapers. He
also serves as Book Reviews Editor for the online academic journal “Perspectives on
Terrorism,” for which he also writes the regularly published “Counterterrorism Bookshelf” review
column. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a specialization in Comparative Politics and
the Middle East, from Columbia University.

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