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
Indicators of insider threats
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. Illegal downloads of information/files
Elements which if compromised could:
1. cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness,
Elements that should be considered in 2. shorten expected combat-effective life of system
identifying Critical Program 3. reduce technological advantage
Information 4. significantly alter program direction; or
5. enable adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer
technology/capability.
1. Assess assets
Elements that security professional should 2. Assess threats
consider when assessing and managing 3. Assess Vulnerabilities
risks to DoD assets (risk management 4. Assess risks
process) 5. Determine countermeasure options
6. Make RM decision
The three categories of Special Access acquisition, intelligence, and operations & support
Programs
Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities, cyber threats,
Types of threats to classified information
business competitors
An employee who may represent a threat to
The concept of an insider threat national security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against
the Government or the nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information
To track and approve access by a foreign entity to information that is classified; and
The purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program 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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A program established for a specific class of
Special Access Program classified information that imposes safeguarding and access requirements that
exceed those normally required for information at the same classification level.
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;
Enhanced security requirements for • SF-86 must be current within one year;
protecting Special Access Program (SAP) • Limited Access;
information • 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
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).
• Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least equal to highest level of
Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement, and the
Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control program for each
SAP.
Responsibilities of the Government SAP • When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable
Security Officer/Contractor Program classified material.
Security Officer (GSSO/ • When required, establish SAPF.
CPSO) • Establish and oversee visitor control program.
• Monitor reproduction/duplication/destruction capability of SAP information
• Ensure adherence to special communications capabilities within SAPF.
• Provide for initial Program indoctrination of employees after access is approved;
rebrief and debrief personnel
• Establish and oversee specialized procedures for transmission of
SAP material to and from Program elements
• When required, ensure contractual specific security requirements are
accomplished.
• Establish security training and briefings specifically tailored to unique requirements
of SAP.
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