National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding

Citation


The White House, National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding (NSISS) (Dec. 2012) (full-text).

Overview
This Strategy aims to strike the proper balance between sharing information with those who need it to keep our country safe and safeguarding it from those who would do us harm. While these two priorities &mdash; sharing and safeguarding &mdash; are often seen as mutually exclusive, in reality they are mutually reinforcing. This Strategy, therefore, emphasizes how strengthening the protection of classified and sensitive information can help to build confidence and trust so that such information can be shared with authorized users.

This Strategy recognizes this vital information for what it is &mdash; a national asset that must be both protected and shared, as appropriate. The threats to our national security are constantly evolving, so U.S. government policies to ensure this information is used and protected as intended must evolve as well. This includes protecting private and personal information about U.S. persons and upholding our commitment to transparency. This Strategy makes it clear that the individual privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of U.S. persons must be &mdash; and will be &mdash; protected.

U.S. national security depends on sharing the right information with the right people at the right time. The U.S. government will work to maintain an environment in which information is shared in a manner that is responsible, seamless, and secure. Guided by this Strategy, the federal government will continue to leverage critical information to keep the U.S. secure and its citizens safe.