Defensive Security
Classification System Overview
Threat Awareness
Security Procedures & Duties
Reporting Responsibilites
100
A report made to the Facility Security Officer when planning a trip abroad.
What is a Foreign Travel Briefing?
100
Information that is leaked which would cause damage to US National Security.
What is Confidential information?
100
A security threat that originates from within the organization being attacked or targeted, often an employee or officer of an organization or enterprise.
What is insider threat?
100
To give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, or done. Particularly pertaining to security.
What is reporting?
100
The action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties.
What is vigilance?
200
The act of securely storing a phrase or code that grants access to systems, documents, information etc...
What is Password Protection?
200
A spill or leak of information to an individual without a proper need to know.
What is unauthorized disclosure?
200
A security threat that originates from outside the organization being attacked or targeted, often conducted by a hacker or foreign intelligence service.
What is an external threat?
200
The action of protecting someone or something, or the state of being protected.
What is protection?
200
Change in name, marital status or co-habitation, or citizenship status
What is a changed condition report?
300
An unknown and unwanted individual with an acute and unexplained interest in obtaining or exploiting information from you or gaining access to prohibited areas.
What is a suspicious contact?
300
Information that is leaked which would cause serious damage to US National Security.
What is Secret information?
300
The practice of spying or using spies, typically by governments to obtain classified information.
What is espionage?
300
Official permission for someone to have access to classified information.
What is security clearance?
300
Unauthorized access to a system, classified information or closed/secured area
What is a security incident?
400
The ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening to the team with regards to the mission, OR, being aware of one's surroundings.
What is situational awareness?
400
Information that is leaked which would cause exceptionally grave damage to US National Security.
What is Top Secret information?
400
A non-technical method of intrusion hackers use that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures. One of the greatest threats that organizations encounter today.
What is social engineering?
400
The protection of personnel, hardware, programs, networks, and data from physical circumstances and events that could cause serious losses or damage to an enterprise, agency, or institution.
What is Physical Security?
400
A report made to the Facility Security Officer prior to planning a trip abroad.
What is a foreign travel report?
500
An unfriendly and organized government entity which attempts to gain advantage for their nation through the collection of information.
What is a Foreign Intelligence Service?
500
The process of determining whether information that is to be included in a document or material has been classified, and, if it has, ensuring that it is identified as classified information by marking or similar means.
What is derivative classification?
500
An attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users, such as to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the internet.
What is a denial of service attack?
500
An investigation that takes place every 5 years for Top Secret and every 10 years for Secret clearance eligibilities.
What is a Periodic Reinvestigation (PR)?
500
Legal trouble such as DUI, drug/alcohol abuse, arrests and financial trouble such as bankruptcy, wage garnishing, etc...
What is adverse information?