| When building an adaptive, constantly growing | | | | assist the organization's management and Security |
| Enterprise or even the nation as a whole, in which | | | | Officers in ensuring the protection of the Organization. |
| Businesses and IT are synchronized to capitalize on | | | | Presently DSS taken responsibility for approximately |
| change, it requires a secure IT infrastructure. With | | | | 11,000 cleared contractor facilities. |
| security safeguards tightly integrated you can enhance | | | | Security Education, Training and Awareness Program |
| your ability to address risk management, cost | | | | A Security Education, Training and Awareness |
| containment, quality of service, and overall business | | | | Program called SETA is implemented by DSS which |
| agility. | | | | provide security education and training to security |
| Different Security Services You can Avail | | | | professionals and develops security awareness |
| A Managed Security Service Provider is an Internet | | | | products for their use. Through regular classrooms, |
| service provider that provides an organization with | | | | computer-based training, correspondence/distance |
| some amount of network security management like | | | | learning and tele-training, the Program provides a |
| virus blocking, spam blocking, intrusion detection, | | | | curriculum focusing on the core security disciplines |
| firewalls and virtual private network management. It | | | | while integrating counterintelligence and network or |
| can also handle system changes, modifications, and | | | | information systems security. |
| upgrades. | | | | Mission critical areas for DSS are implementing the |
| Apart from this, we also have the Defense Security | | | | National Industrial Security Program (NISP) and the |
| Service (DSS) which is a Department of Defense | | | | Collaborative Adjudication Services (CAS) under which |
| agency. The Under Secretary of Defense for | | | | the Counterintelligence (CI) Office, the Defense |
| Intelligence has the complete authority, direction and | | | | Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) and the |
| control over DSS and has its field offices throughout | | | | Clearance Liaison Office (CLO) operate. |
| the United States. DSS Headquarters are located in | | | | DISCO which is located in Columbus-Ohio, processes |
| Alexandria, Va. An Enterprise can take the help of | | | | requests for industrial personnel security investigations |
| DSS. It has about 285 Industrial Security | | | | and provides eligibility or clearance notifications for |
| Representatives who are located across the U.S. in | | | | industry personnel which comes under NISP. There are |
| four geographic regions. They provide guidelines and | | | | approximately about 800,000 cleared contractor |
| assistance to cleared contractor facilities and also | | | | personnel under the NISP program. |