Panel Summary of “International Perspectives on Trustworthiness Programs” July 15, 2015, at the 2015 INMM Annual Meeting in Indian Wells, CA

The issue of insider threat, and the need for thoughtful, comprehensive approaches to address it, is not specific to any one facility, industry, region, or country. Rather, it is an issue that every institution and organization that deals with sensitive materials and information must wrestle with — to ensure that the people with whom some of the most important and sensitive materials and technology are trusted are capable of keeping those materials secure, doing their jobs safely, and are honoring the incredible responsibility that they are given. The INMM Annual Meeting provides an excellent venue to bring together practitioners and academics working to implement measures to mitigate against insider threats. This panel discussion on “International Perspectives on Trustworthiness Programs,” included representatives from U.S. Department of State’s Partnership for Nuclear Security (PNS) program’s partner countries that are developing and implementing their own human reliability programs, including Nigeria and Indonesia, as well as U.S. and international technical experts from Japan, U.S. NRC, and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.