Operations security
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"OPSEC" redirects here. For the 501(c)(4) group, see Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund.
"OPSEC" redirects here. Not to be confused with OPSEK.
Operations security (OPSEC) is a process that identifies critical information to determine whether friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary exploitation of friendly critical information.
The term "operations security" was coined by the United States military during the Vietnam War.