Systems Security Protection

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Mission categories are assigned to reflect:

  • Type of information handled
  • Integrity requirements
  • Available services

Mission categories:

  • Mission critical
  • Mission support
  • Administrative

Information systems that allow open and uncontrolled access through the Internet will employ mechanisms to ensure availability and prevent malicious tampering or destruction.

Levels of system security protection mechanisms are:

  • Basic
  • Medium
  • High

Levels of concern reflect the following guidelines:

  • High - systems process classified information
  • Medium - systems are national security systems and process unclassified information
  • Basic - systems process sensitive information

System Security Protection provides for the safeguard of all DoD information systems.

These systems will be assigned a mission category by the DoD functional domain owner or component head.

DoD information systems will employ protection mechanisms that satisfy criteria of robustness based on the level of concern for the information to be protected.

Basic security protection mechanisms are equivalent to common security practices while medium and high mechanisms require additional security measures.

Levels of concern are assigned based on the security classification of the information being processed by the information system.


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