Unspecified Information Handling Failure

Official mitigating conditions in play

The formal mitigating conditions (by official paragraph) that case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted vs denied. Extracted for a subset of cases; counts are cases, not percentages of everything. Read what each condition says.

Recent decided examples

• ISCR 04-04264.a2 granted · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a senior software engineer for a defense contractor who faced security concerns under Guideline K (Security Violations) of Department of Defense Directive 5220.6. The al…
• ISCR 04-05802.a1 granted · 2007
  The applicant in this case was a computer technician for a defense contractor who had held a security clearance since 1990. The Department of Defense's Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) in…
• ISCR 14-05127.a1 denied · 2016
  The applicant in this case was a retired military official who sought a security clearance after the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing security concerns under Guid…
• ISCR 17-03588 denied · 2018
  The applicant in this case was a 70-year-old senior principal engineering fellow employed by a defense contractor, who sought to maintain his security clearance after a series of security violations. …

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Related issues under Guideline K

• Failure to Safeguard or Secure · 156 cases
• Unauthorized Disclosure · 76 cases
• Removed Classified Info to Personal Space · 37 cases
• Cross-Domain (Spillage) Violation · 27 cases