Types of OPSEC
During your collection operations to fulfill your intelligence requirements, several types of OPSEC should be considered. This will help ensure that the appropriate measures are taken to ensure your collection operation doesn't fail and, more importantly, you haven't inadvertently put yourself at risk. These types of OPSEC include protection mechanisms to assist in hiding information about you, your collection operation, or even the data you are seeking to collect so that you're not identified by threat actors. These types of OPSEC include the following:
- Information about your identity
- Information about the identity of your online personas
- The infrastructure you utilize to perform your operations
- The equipment you utilize during the operation
- Protecting the data you have collected both in transit and at rest
- Source protection
Putting OPSEC countermeasures in place for all of these is crucial for any security and risk...