The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) within the . intelligence community (IC) has several research “thrusts,” including one on advanced Information Assurance (IA) headed by Richard C. Brackney. On March 2–4, 2004, an unclassified workshop was held at the offices of McAfee Security (a division of Network Associates, Inc.) in Rockville, MD. The topic was “Understanding the Insider Threat.