Personnel training and metrics

There are two things you should implement a training program for and that is OPSEC compliance and institutionalizing an OPSEC culture to increase your intelligence collection capabilities. From a compliance perspective, everything we have laid out in this chapter is going to be hard to learn, so expect to make some mistakes during your implementation. Recurring training establishes the expectations of the staff and assists managers with enforcement. All OPSEC policies, processes, and procedures should be covered in the material and organizations should establish a cultural expectation that this is a requirement for work.

After creating your CTI program, don't expect all your employees to have the talent or skill to establish a long-term identity in a vetted access community. Training will be needed and a vehicle to measure the employee's collection skill set will need to be implemented. Apply a metric to your employee's skill set that...