About this Guide

Comments and questions concerning this Security Guide should be directed to:

This Guide is adapted from Version 1.0 of a program developed for the Defense Security Service Academy (DSSA) by the Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC). DSS makes it publicly available for downloading and local adaptation. Simply go to the SETA page of the DSS website and click on "Start Downloading."

The content is Unclassified and has been approved for public release by the Department of Defense. The content is intended as general guidance only and is not a substitute for review of the official regulations.

To make this program accessible to people with disabilities, this program conforms to W3C's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505, level A.

Credits

This program builds on briefings, brochures and articles developed by individuals and organizations throughout the the U.S. Government security community. Their contributions are greatly appreciated, as are the comments of the dozens of people throughout the security community who reviewed the core program and provided input to make it better.

Security awareness cartoons were provided by the Information and Personnel Security Office, Chief of Naval Operations. Many of these are by Chip Beck. They are not copyrighted.

Computer animations are not copyrighted. They come from the following Internet sites, some of which are no longer accessible:

Animation Gallery, http://members.nbci.com/jograham/index.htm
Debby's GIF Animation Page, www.debsgifs.com
Microsoft Clip Art Gallery, http://dgl.microsoft.com
Bells n' Whistles, www.bellsnwhistles.com
Media Builder, www.mediabuilder.com
DeeDee's Animation Collection, www.Jan.NorCom.mb.ca/deedee/animat.htm. 

Backgrounds are from:
Heikki's Home, http://195.74.10.137/heikki/index.shtml