Scott Shumate

Biography

Dr. R. Scott Shumate is the CEO and founder of Valutare, LLC. Scott has 33 years of national security experience with both the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer and the Department of Defense with the Counterintelligence Field Activity as a Senior Executive level director of Behavioral Science support to the departments investigative and counterintelligence units. He has developed an insider threat model based on reverse engineering the offensive operational approach to targeting and recruiting foreign assets to provide HUMINT.

Clairvoyance is a big data model, using ICG LUX, that predicts risk and insider detection based on network and readily obtained observables that pushes the detection to the far left to gain an early warning risk score. The approach is unique and novel and examines motivational shifts.

Presentation Title

Panel: Know Your Employees, Stop Insider Threats

Presentation Overview

Insider-threat detection is a high-priority focus area in government and the private sector. ICG, Inc. and Valutare, LLC, will examine the current threat-detection technology landscape and discuss how innovative assessment methodologies paired with Big Data Analytics are changing the way organizations engage with their employees, understand their motivations, and stop a wide range of insider threats before it’s too late.