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