Purpose
This Intelligence Community Standard (ICS) for Information Security Marking Metadata shall be applied to information products, information standards, content management, service transactions, and discovery applications where information security marking metadata are required.
- Information products (or resources) include, but are not limited to, text, databases, imagery, audio and video media, and other digital forms of content.
- This standard supports Executive Order (EO) 12958, as amended, Classified National Security Information which “prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information”, across national security disciplines, networks, services, and data.
- This standard serves as a critical bridge between the security marking requirements defined by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)/Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) and the IC security markings register maintained by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)/Controlled Access Program Coordination Office (CAPCO), and information technology solutions that implement structured security marking metadata.
Needs and Requirements
This standard was developed to enable important advances designed to simultaneously improve and simplify the marking and handling of information at both the information product and portion-levels across the full range of security classifications. This ICS and related IPs are the foundation upon which:
- User interfaces for information security marking will be developed,
- Automated formatting of CAPCO-compliant portion marks, security banners, and classification/declassification blocks will be designed and built, and
- Cross-domain security capabilities will be developed and deployed.
Downloads
ICS2008-500-7SecurityMarkingMetadata.pdf
Implementation Profiles
IP for Information Security Marking Metadata (XML Encoding)