- Acronym
OPSEC
Operations Security
- Board question
What are the five steps of the OPSEC process?
Identify critical information, analyze the threat, analyze vulnerabilities, assess risk, and apply OPSEC measures or countermeasures. The process is continuous, not a one-time check.
- Board question
What is OPSEC, and what is critical information?
Operations security is the process of denying an adversary the unclassified indicators that, pieced together, would reveal friendly intentions, capabilities, or vulnerabilities. Critical information is the specific information about friendly plans and operations an adversary needs to act effectively against us. Most of what OPSEC protects is not classified.
- AR 380-5Publication
Army Information Security Program
AR 380-5 governs how the Army classifies, marks, stores, transmits, and destroys classified information. It is the regulation behind end-of-day checks, safe custodian duties, and security incident reporting. Anyone holding a clearance or running a security container is accountable to it.