OPSEC Flashcards
1
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Identify Critical Information
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- analyzing friendly and adversary strategies to achieve objectives
2
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Analyze the Threat
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- adversaries with the INTENT and CAPABILITY to be a threat to our mission.
3
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Analyze vulnerabilities
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- when critical information is susceptible to exploitation by an adversary.
4
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Indicator
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- any detectable activity or information that, when looked at by itself or in conjunction with something else, POINTS TO VULNERABILITIES
- ex: uniforms in unusual places, cars in a parking lot.
5
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Indicators that establish a profile
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- activities that show patterns of an organization
6
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Indicators that show a deviation
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- activities not part of an organizations normal conduct
7
Q
Tip off indicators
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- activities that give the adversary direction on where to focus their intel
8
Q
What are 3 types of indicators
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1) Indicators that establish a profile
2) Indicators that show deviation
3) Tip off indicators
9
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Assess risk
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- risk is the likelihood that an adversary with gather and exploit your critical information
10
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2 basic ways to assess risks:
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1) Intuitive reasoning approach
2) Committee approach
11
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Intuitive reasoning approach
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- done alone and based on personal experience
12
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Committee approach
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- a group of people look at the problem
- PREFERRED METHOD
13
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RISK =
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Threat x Vulnerability x Impact
14
Q
Apply Countermeasure
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- a countermeasure is anything that effectively reduces an adversaries ability to exploit vulnerabilities.
- a “smarter way” of doing a task.
15
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Types of countermeasures:
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- changes in procedure
- controlling dissemination
- cover and deception
- speed and execution
- awareness training
