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What are OPSEC rules for?
OPSEC best practices help protect critical Department of Defense information and keep enemies from learning about military information. OPSEC comprises a set of best practices and rules to keep service members safe, protect critical information, and ensure that military operations stay secret.
Can military take pictures on base?
The Army Public Affairs regulation states: Ground or aerial photographs, sketches, or graphic representations of classified military equipment or installations designated as restricted areas is punishable by law (18 USC 795).
What is adversary exploiting?
An adversary’s capability is defined by his ability to acquire and exploit information. If an adversary can’t exploit the information, there is no threat. Analyzing your vulnerabilities means identifying weaknesses in your operations.
What is CIL for military?
The Critical Information List (CIL) includes specific facts about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities needed by adversaries to plan and act effectively against friendly mission accomplishment.
What does OPSEC mean?
Operations Security (OPSEC) Operations Security is the systematic and proven process by which potential adversaries can be denied information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities.
What is the OPSEC awareness course?
This is an interactive web-based course that provides OPSEC awareness for military members, government employees, contractors and dependents. The course provides information on the basic need to protect unclassified information about operations and personal information to ensure safe and successful operations and personal safety.
Is it An OPSEC violation to release public information?
Information released publicly by those offices, often through press releases or through the base or unit’s Facebook page, is not an OPSEC violation. That information is cleared for public release through the change of command.
What happens when you break OPSEC?
Technically speaking, OPSEC — or operational security — is how we keep service members safe and military actions going as planned. Breaking OPSEC, then, happens when we say or do something publicly that puts either of those things at risk.