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Information Assurance About IA at NSA Partners Rowlett Awards Award Recipients Background Nomination Procedures Links IA Client and Partner Support IA News IA Events IA Mitigation Guidance Media Destruction Guidance Security Configuration Guides Applications Archived Guides Cisco Router Guides Database Servers Fact Sheets Industrial Control Systems (ICS) IPv6 Operating Systems Supporting Documents Switches VoIP and IP Telephony Vulnerability Technical Reports Wireless System Level IA Guidance TEMPEST Overview TEMPEST Products: Level I Certified Confirmed Deficiencies Suspended Terminated No Longer Produced TEMPEST Products: Level II Certified Confirmed Deficiencies Suspended Terminated No Longer Produced TEMPEST Company POCs Certified Suspended Terminated Trusted Computing IA Academic Outreach National Centers of Academic Excellence in IA Education CAE/IAE Program Criteria CAE-R Program Criteria Colloquium Institutions SEAL Program Applying FAQs IA Courseware Evaluation Program Institutions FAQs Student Opportunities IA Business and Research IA Business Affairs Office Certified Product Sales and Support Commercial COMSEC Evaluation Program Commercial Satellite Protection Program Independent Research and Development Program User Partnership Program Partnerships with Industry NIAP and COTS Product Evaluations IA Programs Commercial Solutions for Classified Program Global Information Grid High Assurance Platform HAP Technology Overview HAP Technology Partner Program HAP Resource Library Inline Media Encryptor Suite B Cryptography NSA Mobility Program IA Careers Contact Information	Skip Search Box Searchbox About IA at NSA NSA's Information Assurance Mission focuses on protecting National Security Information and Information Systems, in accordance with National Security Directive 42. Our Mission includes: Comprehensive vulnerability and threat analysis Guidance on IA security solutions Tiered security assessments Tailored solutions for specialized needs Network security products and solutions to enable assured information sharing across security domains or between communities of interest A 24/7 watch and analysis activity providing threat warnings, attack alerts and bulletins Training and security awareness support The Key Management Infrastructure that provisions end cryptographic units Security engineering services that leverage government and commercial solutions "As never before, the IA Directorate is in the forefront of Information Assurance, from providing hands-on, real-time support to the development of more secure communications infrastructures, to deploying and operating sensors that detect malicious activity and inadvertent disclosures, to providing expertise in both building and maintaining secure communications infrastructures, to being a key national leader on cyber defense." Debora A. Plunkett Information Assurance Director National Security Agency
	Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 \| Last Modified: May 23, 2011 \| Last Reviewed: May 30, 2012

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