SECURITY AWARENESS IN THE 1980s Feature articles from the Security Awareness Bulletin, 1981 to 1989 Produced by the Security Awareness Division, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN OCT 13 1989 DEPOSITED BY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The Foreign Intelligence Threat, an Overview Meeting the Espionage Challenge, Senate Intelligence Committee Report Openness: Theirs vs. Ours; Caspar Weinberger on Glasnost and Espionage Damage Assessment: How Much Does Espionage Hurt? IV. Computer and Communications Security Violations and Vulnerabilities: Cases of Telecommunications Compromises Security Awareness in the 1980s The success of security awareness programs in the 1980s must be measured in terms of their responsiveness to national security priorities and to the ever-changing foreign intelligence threat. Moving into the 1990s we can safely say that both policy and threat will take on new and unanticipated dimensions. But lessons learned from experiences in one decade should not be lost on professionals who take the helm in the next. Thus it is very beneficial at some point in time to pull together, as we have done here, our past accomplishments in order to better see where we have been and what we have to build on in the future. The Security Awareness Bulletin, from which the chapters in this volume have been drawn, was first published in May 1981 as a product designed to meet the needs of the defense contractor community. Since 1981 it has appeared four to five times a year and although the Bulletin continues to "target" the population of cleared employees in defense industry, it has gradually enlarged its readership to include the equally vast body of cleared personnel in government and the armed services. The Bulletin's direct consumers, however, continue to be the Facility Security Officers in industry and their counterparts in government: security officers, specialists, managers, and educators. Since its first appearance, all who bear the responsibility for promoting and managing security programs have been urged to circulate, reproduce, abstract, or in any other way utilize the material in this public domain publication. Its single objective is to enhance motivation for compliance with regulations and policies governing the protection of classified and sensitive defense information through awareness. Just as our readership has expanded and become more diversified since 1981, so it is that the Bulletin's "home," the Defense Industrial Security Institute, has since been redesignated the Department of Defense Security Institute. And our task is now to support all security programs in the Department of Defense and defense industry by offering professional courses and training materials of all types. The Bulletin is only one of these products, but it is our most well known and widely distributed training aid. Printing now exceeds 24,000 copies for each issue - including one copy to each of 12,000 defense contractor facilities. Many of the feature articles (particularly on espionage cases, perennial security issues, and training methodology) are of continuing value and each new issue adds to the inventory of material available to support training and awareness programs. And with a potential direct and indirect readership of over two million cleared personnel, it was inevitable that requests for back issues would grow to the point where demand outstripped our resources. Consequently it has become obvious that the most lasting and economical solution to this problem is to invest the time and effort into producing a bound volume containing the most useful feature articles from the Security Awareness Bulletin since 1981 and by making this publication available at reasonable cost through the Government Printing Office. |