Department of Defense: Observations on the National Industrial Security Program

Department of Defense: Observations on the National Industrial Security Program
Author: Ann Calvaresi Barr
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1437903819

The National Industrial Security Program (NISP) ensures that contractors safeguard the government¿s classified info. (CI). NISP protects technologies critical to maintaining military technological superiority and other U.S. nat. security interests. The Defense Security Service (DSS) grants clearances to contractor facilities so they can access and store CI. In 2005, DSS monitored over 11,000 facilities¿ security programs to ensure that they meet NISP requirements for protecting CI. In 2004 and 2005, reports were issued that examined DSS responsibilities related to facilities accessing or storing CI. This testimony summarizes the findings of these reports and their relevance to the effective protection of technologies critical to U.S. national security interests.

National Industrial Security Program

National Industrial Security Program
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1995-08
Genre:
ISBN: 0788121359

Creates a new government & industry partnership which empowers industry to more directly manage its own administrative security controls. Covers: security clearances; security training & briefings; classification & marking; safeguarding classified information; visits & meetings; subcontracting; automated information system security; international security requirements; & much more. Also contact list, glossary, & foreign equivalent markings. Produced jointly by: the Energy Dept., DoD, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, & the CIA.

Countering Cyber Sabotage

Countering Cyber Sabotage
Author: Andrew A. Bochman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000292975

Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastructure owners, operators and their security practitioners make demonstrable improvements in securing their most important functions and processes. Current best practice approaches to cyber defense struggle to stop targeted attackers from creating potentially catastrophic results. From a national security perspective, it is not just the damage to the military, the economy, or essential critical infrastructure companies that is a concern. It is the cumulative, downstream effects from potential regional blackouts, military mission kills, transportation stoppages, water delivery or treatment issues, and so on. CCE is a validation that engineering first principles can be applied to the most important cybersecurity challenges and in so doing, protect organizations in ways current approaches do not. The most pressing threat is cyber-enabled sabotage, and CCE begins with the assumption that well-resourced, adaptive adversaries are already in and have been for some time, undetected and perhaps undetectable. Chapter 1 recaps the current and near-future states of digital technologies in critical infrastructure and the implications of our near-total dependence on them. Chapters 2 and 3 describe the origins of the methodology and set the stage for the more in-depth examination that follows. Chapter 4 describes how to prepare for an engagement, and chapters 5-8 address each of the four phases. The CCE phase chapters take the reader on a more granular walkthrough of the methodology with examples from the field, phase objectives, and the steps to take in each phase. Concluding chapter 9 covers training options and looks towards a future where these concepts are scaled more broadly.

U.S. Education Reform and National Security

U.S. Education Reform and National Security
Author: Joel I. Klein
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 087609521X

The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.