Operations Security
This chapter covers operational security. We talk about the history of operational security, which reaches at least as far back as the writings of Sun Tzu in the sixth century BC, to the words of George Washington, writings from the business community, and formal methodologies from the US government. We talk about the five major steps of operations security: identifying critical information, analyzing threats, analyzing vulnerabilities, determining risks, and planning countermeasures. We also go over the Laws of OPSEC, as penned by Kurt Haas. In addition to discussing the use of operations security in the worlds of business and government, we address how it is used in our personal lives, although perhaps in a less ...
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