CHAPTER 2

New Research and Contrarian Findings

It is not logic that we need … It is insight, the faculty of grasping at once the essential out of the irrelevant.

Will Durant

DELPHI RESEARCH ON INSIDER THREAT

The author’s hostile insider studies began as a social sciences research effort carried out under the rigors and oversight of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. The data gathering took place between January and April 2009, with subsequent analysis and academic review culminating in the author’s published thesis on this subject in September. The research inquiry asked seasoned defenders, investigators, and line managers to answer questions and distill judgments through the iterative Delphi research process.1 This project ...

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