SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS
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,Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Elements which, if compromised, could:
Program Information 1. Cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness
2. Shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
3. Reduce technological advantage
4. Significantly alter program direction; or
5. Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer the technology or
capability
Assets, Threat, Vulnerability, Risk, Countermeasure Elements that a security professional should consider when assessing and managing risks
to DoD assets
Three categories of Special Access Programs Intelligence, Operations, and Support
Three different types of threats to classified information Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), and Cybersecurity Threats
Concept of an Insider Threat 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, including the vast amounts of classified data available
on interconnected United States government computer networks and systems.
The purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program 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 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 Within Personnel Security:
Programs (SAP) information. - Access Rosters
- Billet Structures (if required)
- Indoctrination Agreement
- Clearance based on an appropriate investigation, completed within the last 5 years
- Individual must materially contribute to the program in addition to having the need to
know
- All individuals with access to SAP are subject to a random counterintelligence scope
polygraph examination
- Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a mandatory
access determination
- Tier review process
- Personnel must have a SECRET or TOP SECRET clearance
- SF-86 must be current within one year
- Limited access
- Waivers required for foreign cohabitants, spouses, and immediat family members
Within Industrial Security:
- The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve a carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service (DSS) of industrial security oversight responsibilities
Within Physical Security:
- Access Control
- Maintain a SAP facility
- Access Roster
- All SAPs must have an unclassified nickname/Codeword (optional)
Within Information Security:
- The use of HVASCO
- Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE: PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | COMPLETE
SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS STUDY
GUIDE, CERTIFICATION PREP & REVIEW
| GRADED A+ | GUARANTEED SUCCESS
Updated Questions and Answers
100% Verified Exam Prep
,Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Elements which, if compromised, could:
Program Information 1. Cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness
2. Shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
3. Reduce technological advantage
4. Significantly alter program direction; or
5. Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer the technology or
capability
Assets, Threat, Vulnerability, Risk, Countermeasure Elements that a security professional should consider when assessing and managing risks
to DoD assets
Three categories of Special Access Programs Intelligence, Operations, and Support
Three different types of threats to classified information Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), and Cybersecurity Threats
Concept of an Insider Threat 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, including the vast amounts of classified data available
on interconnected United States government computer networks and systems.
The purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program 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 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 Within Personnel Security:
Programs (SAP) information. - Access Rosters
- Billet Structures (if required)
- Indoctrination Agreement
- Clearance based on an appropriate investigation, completed within the last 5 years
- Individual must materially contribute to the program in addition to having the need to
know
- All individuals with access to SAP are subject to a random counterintelligence scope
polygraph examination
- Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a mandatory
access determination
- Tier review process
- Personnel must have a SECRET or TOP SECRET clearance
- SF-86 must be current within one year
- Limited access
- Waivers required for foreign cohabitants, spouses, and immediat family members
Within Industrial Security:
- The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve a carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service (DSS) of industrial security oversight responsibilities
Within Physical Security:
- Access Control
- Maintain a SAP facility
- Access Roster
- All SAPs must have an unclassified nickname/Codeword (optional)
Within Information Security:
- The use of HVASCO
- Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
