Security Clearance
What is Security Clearance?
An authorisation granted to individuals allowing them access to classified information after completing a background investigation. Security clearance levels typically include Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.
Terms that appear alongside security clearance
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as security clearance. The number is how many controls name both.
- personnel security 6 shared controls
- compliance 2 shared controls
- facility security 2 shared controls
- itar 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
- nist 2 shared controls
- baseline 2 shared controls
- audit 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern security clearance
What the standards actually require on security clearance
Requirements naming security clearance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Entities must manage clearances actively, including timely revalidation, transfer or sharing of clearances, and revocation when an individual no longer requires or warrants the clearance.
PSPF-2024-POL-11 · Policy 11: Managing security clearances →Where access to security classified information is required, the entity must sponsor and maintain personnel security clearances through the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) at the appropriate level.
DISP-PERS-CLEARANCE · Security clearances (AGSVA sponsorship) →Personnel requiring access to classified information or assets must hold and maintain an appropriate security clearance.
DSPF-P40 · Personnel security clearance →Maintenance Personnel | Individuals Without Appropriate Access. The organization: (a) Implements procedures for the use of maintenance personnel that lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens, that include the following requirements: (1)
MA-5(1) · Maintenance Personnel | Individuals Without Appropriate Access. The organization: (a) Implements procedures for the use of maintenance personnel that lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens, that include the following requirements: (1) →Maintenance Personnel | Individuals Without Appropriate Access. The organization: (a) Implements procedures for the use of maintenance personnel that lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens, that include the following requirements: (1)
MA-5(1) · Maintenance Personnel | Individuals Without Appropriate Access. The organization: (a) Implements procedures for the use of maintenance personnel that lack appropriate security clearances or are not U.S. citizens, that include the following requirements: (1) →Maintain personnel security clearances per AC/35-D/2000 NATO Personnel Security Policy (CONFIDENTIAL/SECRET/COSMIC TOP SECRET investigations + reinvestigations every 5 years + continuous evaluation). Verify need-to-know and need-to-share controls.
NATO-NCIRC-7 · Personnel Security Clearances and Cyber Exercises →Questions people ask about security clearance
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