DODI 3020.40 Mission Assurance Flashcards
Asset
A distinguishable entity that provides a service or capability. Assets are people, physical entities, or information located either within or outside the United States and employed, owned, or operated by domestic, foreign, public, or private sector organizations.
Defense Critical Asset (DCA)
An asset of such extraordinary importance to operations in peace, crisis, and war that its incapacitation or destruction would have a very serious, debilitating effect on the ability of the Department of Defense to fulfill its missions.
Defense Critical Infrastructure (DCI)
The composite of DoD and non-DoD assets essential to project, support, and sustain military forces and operations worldwide. DCI is a combination of task critical assets and DCAs.
Defense Security Enterprise
The organizations, infrastructure, and measures (to include policies, processes,
procedures, and products) in place to safeguard DoD personnel, information, operations,
resources, technologies, and facilities against harm, loss, or hostile acts and influences. This
system of systems comprises personnel, physical, industrial, information, and operations
security, as well as SAP security policy, critical program information protection policy, and
security training. It addresses, as part of information security, classified information, including
sensitive compartmented information, and controlled unclassified information. It aligns with
counterintelligence, information assurance, foreign disclosure, security cooperation, technology
transfer, export control, cyber security, nuclear physical security, chemical and biological agent
security, antiterrorism, force protection, and mission assurance policy and is informed by other
security related efforts.
Government Coordinating Council
A council formed to enable interagency and cross-jurisdictional coordination. The Government Coordinating Councils are composed of representatives from across various levels of government (federal, State, local, or tribal) as appropriate to the operating landscape of each individual national sector.
Hazards
A condition with the potential to cause injury, illness, or death of personnel;
damage to or loss of equipment or property; or mission degradation.
Mission Mitigation Plan
A plan developed by a mission owner that reflects how to respond to the loss or incapacitation of identified DCI.
Mission Owner
The OSD or DoD Component having responsibility for the execution of all or part of a mission assigned by statute or the Secretary of Defense.
Mitigation
Actions taken in response to a warning or after an incident occurs that are intended to lessen the potentially adverse effects on a given military operation or infrastructure.
Network
A group or system of interconnected or cooperating entities, normally characterized as nodes (assets), and the connections that link them.
Remediation
Actions taken to correct known deficiencies and weaknesses once a vulnerability has been identified.
Risk
Probability and severity of loss linked to threats or hazards and vulnerabilities.
Risk Assessment
A systematic examination of risk using disciplined processes, methods, and tools. A risk assessment provides an environment for decision makers to evaluate and prioritize risks continuously and to recommend strategies to remediate or mitigate those risks.
Risk Management
A process by which decision makers accept, reduce, or offset risk and subsequently make decisions that weigh overall risk against mission benefits. Risk management is composed of risk assessment and risk response.
Risk Response
Actions taken to remediate or mitigate risk or reconstitute capability in the event of loss or degradation.
