Don Alston Alston Strategic Consulting LLC Overview The Breach Y12 Security Response Contributors to Failure Initial Recovery Actions Personal Observations The Breach Predawn trespass ID: 573975
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2012 Security Breach at Y-12 National Security Complex
Don Alston
Alston Strategic
Consulting,
LLCSlide2
Overview
The Breach
Y-12 Security Response
Contributors to Failure
Initial Recovery Actions
Personal
ObservationsSlide3
The Breach
Pre-dawn trespass
Cut through multiple fences
Achieved objective
Defaced HEUMF
Paint, blood, hammering
Highly Enriched Uranium Materials FacilitySlide4
Y-12 Security Response
Perimeter alarms activatedSurveillance cameras
inoperative
Unauthorized camera
failed
to see trespassers
Slow dispatch
Inept initial
responseGuards inside HEUMF silenced alarm; no visualAssumed maintenanceUltimately: robust security responseSlide5
Contributors to Failure
Inadequate operational testingHigh false and nuisance alarm ratesCritical features inoperative
Not Priority maintenance
Compensatory measures
Growing
maintenance backlog
Reduced
funding for security
Culture of PermissivenessSlide6
Split accountability and responsibility
Plant management contractor:
Security
systems
vs.
Security contractor:
Security personnelFederal oversight … early indicatorsContributors to Failure (cont.)Slide7
Initial Recovery Actions
Fortified HEUMFReduced false alarm rateSecurity personnel and system management into single contract
Security system maintenance prioritySlide8
Personal Observations
Secretary of Energy Task:
Examine DOE security constructs
Central Observation:
“… a pervasive culture of tolerating the intolerable and accepting the unacceptable.
”
Defective Culture In Need of ChangeSlide9
Set Conditions for Successful Security Culture:
Responsibility for success shared by all
Clear lines of authority/accountability
Performance testing: operational effectiveness
Incentivize information flow and self-criticism
Circulate assignments between HQ and field Walk the talkPersonal Observations
Culture: Preparing to Pass It OnSlide10
Trespassers
- Federal convictions
- Sentenced: 3, 5 years Slide11
Questions?