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OPSEC at Home
You have probably been practicing OPSEC in your personal life without
knowing it! When you are getting ready to go on a trip have you ever:
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Stopped the delivery of the newspaper so that they would not pile up
outside and send a signal that you are not home?
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Asked your neighbor to pick up your mail so the mailbox would not fill
up, also indicating that you are away?
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Connected your porch lights and inside lights to a timer so they would
go on at preset times to make it look like someone is home?
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Left a vehicle parked in the driveway?
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Connected a radio to a timer so that it comes on at various times to
make it sound like that someone is inside?
Well, guess what you did? You practiced OPSEC!
The critical information here is obvious - we do not want anyone to know
the house is unoccupied. None of the actions (countermeasures) listed
above directly conceal the fact that your residence is unoccupied. A
newspaper on the lawn or driveway does not necessarily mean no one is at
home. Newspapers in the yard or driveway are only an indicator to the
adversary. That indicator, combined with other indicators, (no internal
lights at night, mail stuffed in the mailbox, etc.) will provide the
adversary with the information needed to reach a conclusion with an
acceptable level of confidence. In this case, the more indicators that
the adversary is able to observe, the greater the level of confidence in
his/her conclusion. When you eliminate these indicators, you have a much
better chance of ensuring that your home is not burglarized while you
are away.
The same holds true at your place of work. We must protect our critical
information and eliminate indicators available to the adversary.
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