Israel installs security safeguards to prevent Wikileaks-type revelations

[News_Editor]

Israel installs security safeguards to prevent Wikileaks-type revelations

2010-11-30 15:44:08 GMT+7 (ICT)

JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) -- Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has installed a number of new security measures over the past year in order to prevent major leaks of sensitive information such as Wikileaks did to the United States this year.

The new safeguards were developed by the IDF's Information Security Unit and include a system that will track every document classified as top secret by the military, whom it is sent to, who printed it and who burned it onto a CD.

The new system will not allow that a document classified as top secret will be transferred to someone without the necessary security clearance to handle this kind of files. Another safeguard will require a disc-on-key to be inserted in an IDF computer to set the alarm off to avoid a security breach.

"This doesn't mean that something like Wikileaks cannot happen in Israel, but it would be more difficult," a former officer involved in information security told local media.

The new measures were implemented over the last year and were fundamental in the arrest of Anat Kam. The investigation revealed that Kam leaked thousands of top secret and classified documents to a local reporter.

Kan allegedly copied documents into a personal folder on her computer and then burned them onto a CD during her last week at work. She apparently engaged in this criminal behavior for approximately one year.

Other steps taken by the IDF includes background checking and polygraph tests on soldiers serving in sensitive positions and the cataloging of every IDF soldier according to their level of clearance.

-- © BNO News All rights reserved 2010-11-30

[A_Traveller]

Good PR puff, but irrelevant. The breach that WikiLeaks is taking advantage of was of lower classifications distribution system, Siprnet [secret Internet Protocol Router Network] which should not be used to route Top Secret and above. This may account for the maximum class distributed being Secret. Siprnet was expanded to include cables explicitly after 9/11 as a methodology aimed at closing 'gaps in intelligence'. However, I'm still having difficulty at understanding how a single PFC [allegedly] was able to access such a wide range of subjects.

Regards

[geriatrickid]

I have this image now of Shmuelie the political liason officer running in to the data center covered in sweat and screaming at Ivan, Yuri and Sergei the 3 Russian cyber wizzes, "stop with the porn, you have to plug the leaks"................

[astral]

Shutting the door after the horse has bolted, comes to mind,

as the Wikileaks material goes back several years.............