[ISN] Secrecy News -- 08/08/07

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Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 00:09:27 PDT


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Subject: Secrecy News -- 08/08/07


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2007, Issue No. 81
August 8, 2007


**	PALAU RATIFIES THE COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY
**	NEW MILITARY REGS ON INFORMATION ASSURANCE, COMSEC
**	CRS REPORTS ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

[...]


NEW MILITARY REGS ON INFORMATION ASSURANCE, COMSEC

A newly updated U.S. Army regulation on information assurance defines
standards and procedures for protecting classified and unclassified
information in automated information systems.  See "Information
Assurance," AR 25-2, August 3, 2007:

     http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar25-2.pdf

Meanwhile, a new U.S. Navy Instruction establishes policy on monitoring
of Navy communications for internal security purposes.  See
"Communications Security (COMSEC) Monitoring of Navy Telecommunications
and Automated Information Systems (AIS)," OPNAV Instruction 2201.3A,
August 2, 2007:

    http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/navy/opnavinst/2201_3a.pdf


[...]

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