Spy Agency To Pilot Insider-Threat Hunting Tech

Nextgov: A spy agency plans to identify people within the organization likely to abuse their access privileges by analyzing pieces of text.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is investing in "sentiment analysis" technology, which generally works by parsing text and categorizing its author's sentiment as positive, negative or neutral. NGA intends to sole-source an award for a 1-year pilot to WT Government Services, which sells such a system called SCOUT Tool.

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