National Information Assurance (IA) Policy for U.S. Space Systems

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Background:

1. The National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems
Security Committee (NSTISSC) has issued National Security
Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy (NSTISSP)
No. 12, Subject: National Information Assurance (IA) Policy for U.S.
Space Systems.

2. The NSTISSC was established by National Security Directive (NSD)
No. 42, dated July 1990, and is responsible for developing and
promulgating national policies applicable to the security of national
security telecommunications and information systems.

Introduction:

3. Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) No. 49, Subject: National
Space Policy, dated 19 September 1996, has established that U.S. space
activities are critical to the national security of the United States.
Commercial space activities are also closely linked to the operation
of the U.S. Government's critical infrastructures as identified in PDD
No. 63, Subject: Critical Infrastructure Protection, dated 22 May
1998, and may, on occasion, be leveraged to satisfy national security
requirements. Based on their importance, it is imperative that a
comprehensive, national-level IA space policy be developed,
promulgated, and adopted that will ensure the confidentiality,
authenticity, integrity, availability, and survivability of associated
communications and communications networks under a wide range of
peace- or war-time cyber threat scenarios.

4. The primary objective of NSTISSP No. 12 is to ensure that IA is
factored into the planning, design, launch, sustained operation, and
deactivation of all U.S. space systems used to collect, generate,
process, store, display, or transmit/ receive national security
information, as well as any supporting or related national security
systems. The policy also serves to remind users of space assets
outside the national security community that they may wish to factor
IA into those space activities associated with the operation and/or
maintenance of critical U.S. infrastructures.

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