Military Compliance Report

Unfortunately, my professional environment is drastically different than the majority of this class. Working Department of Defense for the US military, either for the Army in Kuwait (Combat Support Associates) or Iraq (SOC), the Marines in Afghanistan (Triple Canopy), the Pueblo Chemical Depot for the Army (DOD) or the US Air Force Academy (Chenega) for the Air Force there are specific guideline to address the issue. All of the facilities and installations except the Air Force Academy we were authorized computer access. Therefore, we were required when computer access was available to adhere to the specific guidelines, Information Security Training and OpSec training.
Training concerning Information Security and OpSec for Triple Canopy was conducted at the Joint Emergency Services Training Center, in Louisiana and readdressed or reinforced at the Pre-deployment center at Camp Atterbury. SOC conducted training at their training facility and once again reinforced in country, Combat Support Associates training was conducted online and readdressed at Camp Arifjan once we arrived in country. …show more content…
So there is specific guidelines and protocol this is established by the Department of Defense. My active duty time followed the same criteria that is the standard for security contracting which was previously mentioned with my operational organizations.
As for accountability, that is a good question. Personally, I have possessed both a Top Secret clearance when on active duty and a Secret clearance when employed as a security operator. Accountability is one area that has unfortunately many meanings when in a military environment. I, personally have seen a good majority of security breaches conducted by leaders or Officers more so than with enlisted men or women. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen in the lower ranks, it does, but accountability has many