SPēD SFPC: General Exam Study Guide

SPēD SFPC: General Exam Study Guide Principle incident/events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations - Answer-espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber Indicators of insider threats - Answer-1. Failure to report overseas travel or contact with foreign nationals 2. Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope 3. Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know 4. Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private 5. Exploitable behavior traits 6. Repeated security violations EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024 EMILLECT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024. Page 2/7 7. Attempting to enter areas not granted access to 8. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means 9. Anomalies (adversary taking actions which indicate they are knowledgeable to information) 10. Illegal downloads of information/files Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program Information - Answer- Elements which if compromised could: 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 reverseengineer the technology or capability EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024 EMILLECT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024. Page 3/7 Asset, threat, vulnerability, risk, countermeasures - Answer-Elements that a security professional should consider when assessing and managing risks to DoD assets The three categories of Special Access Programs - Answer-acquisition, intelligence, and operations and support Three different types of threats to classified information - Answer-Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity Threat The concept of an insider threat - Answer-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 - Answer-To track and approve access by a foreign entity to information that is classified; and to approve acces