Attendee Information For The Taking At 6Connex Job Fair For Intelligence Community
The virtual job fair, which took place on August 13, attracted more than 3,000 attendees and included recruiters and subject matter experts from 17 government intelligence agencies including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), NSA, and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
“The United States Intelligence Community (IC) employs thousands of professionals in a wide variety of occupations. And we are currently looking for qualified candidates to fill key openings,” read a web page promoting the event. The event was hosted on the 6Connex platform and open to the public. Attendees could register with nothing more than an email. Once in, they could visit virtual booths and talk with recruiters and “subject matter experts” from the agencies.
6Connex is one of a number of virtual conference platforms that have taken on greater importance during the COVID pandemic, as in-person industry and career events have moved online. But job seekers who assumed that the intelligence community event would bring top shelf privacy protections to their virtual event would be disappointed: attendees’ personal information including their first and last names, chats and, in some cases, social media profiles, current employer and resumes were exposed to anyone in attendance who knew where to look, according to Dillon Beresford, an independent security researcher who attended the event.
