A federal contractor tasked with performing background checks on Department of Defense employees seeking high-level security clearances copped to submitting reams of bogus reports when she claimed to ...

It's a step toward tackling a security clearance backlog. President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Wednesday officially making the U.S. military responsible for virtually all security ...

For security directors and company executives, protecting a company’s people and assets encompasses the implementation of a wide variety of different solutions. For some this might be the addition ...

I was attending the CIO Dialog this week, and while sitting there listening to one speaker, a train of thought started, and it was initiated by his statement that we (by that he meant other CIO's in ...

From fake sign language interpreters to a Secret Service staffing crisis that led people to question whether the agents protecting former President Donald Trump were sufficiently qualified, recent ...

A Social Security number, sometimes referred to as an "SSN," is a nine-digit number assigned to workers in the United States by the Social Security Administration. The primary use of the number is to ...

WASHINGTON – Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances -- something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic ...

OPM is alerting more than 48,000 federal employees their personal information may have been exposed following a breach at KeyPoint Government Solutions, which conducts background investigations of ...

Eligibility for access to classified information, commonly known as a security clearance, is granted only to those for whom an appropriate personnel security background investigation has been ...