Operations Security(opsec)

Reduce Vulnerabilities of Air Force missions from successful adversary collection and exploitation of critical information

AFI 10-701

Process of identifying, analyzing, and controlling critical information to:
1) observe actions of adversary intelligence systems
2)determine key components in time to be useful to adversaries3)execute measures to eliminate vulnerabilities to adversary exploitation

Identify critical information

Analyze threats

Analyze vulnerabilities

Asses risks

Apply opsec

An individual,group, or government that must be denied critical information

Friendly detectable actions that can be interpreted by an adversary to derive critical information