17B. Operations Security Flashcards
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Operations Security
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- Means of weighing risk of op
- Reduces AF mission vulnerabilities
- Reduces adversary collection of info
- Series of analyses to examine entire spectrum of military planning/action
2
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Signature Management
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- Active defense of operational profiles at a military installation
- Countermeasures to hide, control, or simulate indicators
3
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Activity’s Profile (aka Operational Profile)
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- Sum of the signatures generated by each functional activity
4
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Operations Security Process
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- Identify critical information
- Analyze vulnerabilities
- Analyze threats
5
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Operations Security Indicators
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- Friendly, detectable actions
- Pieced together to derive critical info
6
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5 Basic Characteristics of Operations Security Indicators
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- Exposure - when/how long indicator is observed
- Profiles - sum of the signatures
- Signatures - characteristic of an indicator
7
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Profiling Process
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- Process to identify vulnerabilities/indicators
- Used to capture process points that present key signatures and profiles with critical information value.
