SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas Exam Questions And Answers

SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas Exam Questions And Answers Indicators of insider threats - ANS 1. Failure to report overseas travel or contact with foreign nationals 2. Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside job scope 3. Engaging in classified conversations without NTK 4. Working inconsistent hours 5. Exploitable behavior traits 6. Repeated security violations 7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means 8. Illegal downloads of information/files Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program Information - ANS Elements which if compromised could: 1. cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness, 2. shorten expected combat-effective life of system 3. reduce technological advantage 4. significantly alter program direction; or 5. enable adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer technology/capability. Elements that security professional should consider when assessing and managing risks to DoD assets (risk management process) - ANS 1. Assess assets 2. Assess threats 3. Assess Vulnerabilities 4. Assess risks 5. Determine countermeasure options 6. Make RM decision The three categories of Special Access Programs - ANS acquisition, intelligence, and operations & support Types of threats to classified information - ANS Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities, cyber threats, business competitors The concept of an insider threat - ANS An employee who may represent a threat to national security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or the nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information The purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program - ANS To track and approve access by a foreign entity to information that is classified; and to approve access by a foreign entity to information that is unclassified, related to a U.S. Government contract, or plant visits covered by ITAR. Special Access Program - ANS A program established for a specific class of classified information that imposes safeguarding and access requirements that exceed those normally required for information at the same classification level. Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program (SAP) information - ANS Within Personnel Security: • Access Rosters; • Billet Structures (if required); • Indoctrination Agreement; • Clearance based on appropriate investigation completed within last 5/6 years; • Individual must materially contribute to program and have need to know (NTK); • SAP personnel subject to random counterintelligence scope polygraph; • Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a mandatory access determination;