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What We Do
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.
Who We Are
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.