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Q: 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
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7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. Illegal downloads of information/files
Q: 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.
Q: 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
Q: The three categories of Special Access Programs
Ans: acquisition, intelligence, and operations & support
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Q: Types of threats to classified information
Ans: Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities,
cyber threats, business competitors
Q: 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
Q: 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.
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Q: 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.
Q: Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program
(SAP) information
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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;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have Secret or TS clearance;
• SF-86 must be current within one year;
• Limited Access;
• Waivers required for foreign cohabitants, spouses, and immediate family
members.
Within Industrial Security:
The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve carve-out provision to relieve Defense
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Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access Control;
• Maintain SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have unclassified nickname/ Codeword (optional).
Within Information Security:
• The use of HVSACO;
• Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
Q: Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor
Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO)
SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas Questions and
Answers 100% Correct Answers Already
Graded A+
Q: 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
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7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. Illegal downloads of information/files
Q: 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.
Q: 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
Q: The three categories of Special Access Programs
Ans: acquisition, intelligence, and operations & support
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Q: Types of threats to classified information
Ans: Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities,
cyber threats, business competitors
Q: 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
Q: 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.
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Q: 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.
Q: Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program
(SAP) information
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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;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have Secret or TS clearance;
• SF-86 must be current within one year;
• Limited Access;
• Waivers required for foreign cohabitants, spouses, and immediate family
members.
Within Industrial Security:
The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve carve-out provision to relieve Defense
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Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access Control;
• Maintain SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have unclassified nickname/ Codeword (optional).
Within Information Security:
• The use of HVSACO;
• Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
Q: Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor
Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO)
