Security Clearance Careers Podcast

A pandemic, a change in administration, inflation issues, and your own personal life can cause stress outside the workplace – but if your workplace is the federal government, you have added pressure to do your job well, so the American people thrive. But what if federal workers are becoming unhappy with their employment? As we forecast the next ten years of policy, federal jobs, and what the futur...

Insider threats are a major risk to all companies, not just those in the national security space. But it’s important to know who the threat actors are – and why they’re acting. Dr. Eric Lang, director of the DoD Personnel and Security Research Center, or PERSEREC, discusses his work on insider threat, and why non-malicious actors are as concerning as the headline grabbing cases we see. You can rea...

Jill Hamilton and Katie Keller run through a story of an employee at a mid-sized aerospace company as a lead engineer in the software domain. They are about to complete a big federal project and start a new one with a another federal defense agency. None of their present or future projects to date have needed a security clearance, but their company does a lot of work and advertises for roles requi...

Roxanne Wood, CEO of Boeing Intelligence & Analytics , thinks Boeing has a lot to offer to cleared candidates looking for a job. We sat down with her to discuss why Boeing is a great place to work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With all of the talk of tech layoffs and a crunch in the tech market, it's important to remember that open technology positions continue to far outpace the supply of talent - particularly in the Northern Virginia region, where technology innovation and government need meet.  ClearanceJobs recently chatted with Jennifer Taylor, president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council...

November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. As we close out this important celebration, the Security Clearance Careers Podcast hosts Mike Noll and Brett Moeller, both ClearanceJobs employees and military veterans, to talk about their service and share tips on how employers can better their brand in terms of reaching veteran talent, how recruiters can reach the elusive secret squirre...

The pandemic shifted DoD billable personnel’s thoughts on working in a SCIF five or six days out of the week. Experiencing a taste of the work from home lifestyle helped to change their perspective on what work / life balance means. Whether burnt out from putting their phones in a cubby while entering a government building or feeling closer their families as you they spent less time commuting and...

The common belief now is frequently that sexual norms have changed so much - how could anything be considered off limits or deemed a risk as a part of the security clearance process? But sexual behavior remains an adjudicative guideline, and while it's rarely used alone for a security clearance denial or revocation, it can play a role. Security clearance attorney Sean Bigley and Lindy Kyzer discus...

ClearanceJobs sat down with Roxanne Wood, CEO of Boeing Intelligence and Analytics, to learn more about Boeing’s role in national security and how they’re preparing to take on the security world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The False Claims Act, also called the “Lincoln Law” enables the government to impose liability on those who overcharge the government or make false claims about their products. It is the government’s biggest stick in combatting fraud and recently made headlines due to a high profile case, Markus vs. Aerojet RocketDyne, was recently settled with a $9 million payment after allegations of  cyber...

One of the easiest ways to get your foot in the door to a national security career (and a clearance for that matter) is by becoming a field investigator. But your security career certainly doesn’t end there, and the fact of the matter is, whether physical or information, security careers are exploding in our sector. Mike   Runyan assumed the role of Director of Risk Management in 2020 with ne...

Boeing is a leading global aerospace company, but the company does so much more than build airplanes. Roxanne Wood, CEO of Boeing Intelligence and Analytics, sat down with Clearance Jobs to discuss her role at Boeing, how the Intelligence and Analytics arm relates to the greater Boeing Company, and the experience Boeing brings to national security. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Social media monitoring is not a typical part of most security clearance background investigations - but it could be. And for at least one government agency, there has been a security clearance denial based on social media monitoring. While the chances of a social media monitoring related denial are incredibly rare, it could happen. The list of possible sites that could be monitored include: Socia...

With the convenience of the digital age come new concerns, as well. While it is incredibly easy to network online, apply to jobs, and showcase your resume, it is also more frequent that you hear stories of catfishing, social engineering, and other scams. On platforms like LinkedIn, and even Craigslist, scammers are posting fake job opportunities, or reaching out to candidates, in hopes of obtainin...

A key focus in the national security space today remains making national security careers more accessible for diverse populations. Lauren Bacon Smith, Chief People Officer at Enabled Intelligence discusses how her company works to make national security careers more accessible to diverse audiences. From improving questions and streamlining the interview process, to providing advice and assistance...

ClearanceJobs sat down with Roxanne Wood, CEO of Intelligence and Analytics at Boeing, to learn more about her role at Boeing and how Boeing supports national security and their employees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Phishing scams, cyber-attacks, and other forms of malicious cyber activity are some of the real-life threats any of us could encounter at any time. We sat down with Tom Millar, senior advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), to learn more about real-life scary cyber stories and what we can do to avoid a starring role in one of these events. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Clearance Jobs sat down with Aastha Verma, Branch Chief in Vulnerability Management at CISA, to learn more about cybersecurity, why it’s so important, and what steps businesses and individuals can take for better cyber hygiene. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cybersecurity affects everyone from individuals to small firms, to multi-national corporations. Senior Technical Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Bob Lord joined us to discuss how businesses and individuals can use multi-factor authentication, or MFA, to improve their cyber posture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does the future of the operational battlefield look like? More importantly, can we forecast imminent threats to get ahead of our adversaries? The Army Mad Scientist Initiative is a U.S. Army program and a community of action that continually explores the future through collaborative partnerships and continuous dialogue with academia, industry and government. Luke Shabro is the Deputy Dir...

Foreign influence and foreign preference are both adjudicative guidelines that can trip up security clearance applicants. A part of the confusion comes from changes in the past ten years to how Department of Defense security clearance holders should handle foreign passports and foreign citizenship. Country of origin is a factor in the security clearance eligibility process, but it all comes down t...

Phishing attempts to steal identities, money, or both, are also becoming more common. ClearanceJobs sat down with Colby Turley, Informations Security Manager at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to learn more about phishing attempts and the best ways to avoid them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last year marked our soft launch of ClearanceJobs Connect, and with so much success in bringing together industry recruiters, government leaders, and other talent acquisition advisors with stake in the cleared recruiting game, we will launch our second ClearanceJobs Connect this week. Hosts of the Security Clearance Careers podcast come together to talk about what attendees can expect this year, i...

“Whistleblowers are a rare breed, and that’s one of the reasons why they get these big financial rewards.” One of the biggest settlements in the last year was a $48.5M case where a company posing as a service-disabled veteran owned organization and going after those set aside contracts, when they in fact were not own by a service-disabled veteran. The whistleblower in this case was a competing com...

David Brown is the author of The Mission, which details many aspects of the SLS program and how Artemis came to be the unlikely solution to our problem of being unable to go interplanetary. He recently sat down with ClearanceJobs to talk about the Artemis launch. He twice attempted to see the program take flight and was met both times by the rocket's fueling woes. He discussed how his writing on t...