National Counterintelligence and Security Center

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National Counterintelligence and Security Center

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“CI and security are interconnected and cannot be
executed in isolation.” –
NCSC Director Evanina

The solutions to countering adversarial threats often lie at the intersection of the CI and security disciplines. CI has both a defensive mission — to protect our nation’s secrets and assets from theft, manipulation, or destruction by foreign adversaries by knowing their intentions, targets, capabilities and methods — and an offensive mission — to exploit, deceive or disrupt their hostile activities. Assuring the security of personnel, data, networks, national & trade secrets, and physical facilities – is a critical element. The U.S. faces higher cyber, physical, and technical threat levels than ever before; and security policies, standards, guidelines and practices must be based on sound threat analysis and risk management.

NCSC blends CI and security expertise to lead and support CI and security activities across the U.S. Government, the Intelligence Community and U.S. private sector entities at risk of intelligence collection, penetration or attack by foreign and other adversaries.

NCSC Blends CI and Security expertise to lead and support CI and security activities

  • For Counterintelligence, the Director of NCSC serves as both the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) and the National Intelligence Manager for Counterintelligence (NIM-CI).
  • For Security, NCSC is responsible for Security Executive Agent (SecEA) activities, on behalf of the Director National Intelligence, across the Executive Branch and is the DNI’s designee for oversight and direction for safeguarding national security programs across the IC.

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Who We Are

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National Counterintelligence and Security Center

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is led and staffed by a cadre of professionals with decades of national security and law enforcement expertise and varied analytic, investigative and policymaking backgrounds.  Working with partners across the Executive Branch Departments and Agencies and the private sector, NCSC provides expertise in several mission areas including insider threat, supply chain risk management, and personnel security.  Additional information is available in the NCSC  Strategic Plan for 2016-2020.

Security Executive Agent

NCSC professionals also serve as the Executive Staff for the Director of National Intelligence as Security Executive Agent (SecEA).  Presidential Executive Order EO 13467, assigned the DNI responsibility for effective and uniform policies and procedures governing access to classified information for the Intelligence Community (IC) and government-wide.

National Insider Threat Task Force

Since 2011, NCSC has been the home of the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF).  Under joint leadership of the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence, NITTF works government wide to deter the compromise of classified information by malicious insiders and to establish programs to protect federal classified networks.

What We Do

NCSC Seal The National Counterintelligence and Security Center provides effective leadership and support to the counterintelligence and security activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community, the U.S. Government, and U.S. private sector entities who are at risk of intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries.

About the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC)

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and is staffed by senior counterintelligence (CI) and other specialists from across the national intelligence and security communities. The NCSC develops, coordinates, and produces:

  • National Threat Identification and Prioritization Assessment (NTIPA) and other analytic CI products.
  • The National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America.
  • Priorities for CI collection, investigations, and operations.
  • CI program budgets and evaluations that reflect strategic priorities.
  • In-depth espionage damage assessments.
  • CI awareness, outreach, and training standards policies depends on the 17 agencies in the Intelligence Community and partners across the U.S. Government and with experts in the private sector.

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