However, its charter as a security countermeasures organization makes it ideally suited to provide industry with a proactive approach to implementing effective countermeasures tailored to the appropriate threat level likely to be encountered. DIS currently has a work force of trained industrial security professionals, a field structure positioned to respond to industry's needs and contacts within the intelligence community facilitating a mutually beneficial relationship with industry. If the government desires to be effective in assisting industry in protecting unclassified information of value it must accurately ascertain industry's needs. The government must approach industry as a viable consumer of a value added product and offer its services in a rational, threat appropriate, cost effective manner. Attempts to impose a compliance based regulatory program are doomed to fail.
Industry has little desire to increase the regulatory burden it currently faces.
Industry must be convinced that the service afforded by the government will be of value. The first step in this process is to identify key industry requirements. Ensuring the private sector has a clear comprehension of the threat is a must. Specific threat information presented in a manner that satisfies clearance and classification issues should be the objective. However, the FBI with its primary mission as an operational and investigative one, may not be positioned most effectively to obtain and convey this threat data from the intelligence community.