Army Information Assurance Program

Overview
The Army Information Assurance Program (AIAP) is a unified approach to protect unclassified, sensitive, or classified information stored, processed, accessed, or transmitted by information systems (IS}, and is established to consolidate and focus Army efforts in securing that information, including its associated systems and resources, to increase the level of trust of this information and the originating source. The AIAP will secure ISs through IA requirements, and does not extend access privileges to special access programs (SAPs), classified, or compartmentalized data; neither does it circumvent need-to-know requirements of the data or information transmitted.

The AIAP is designed to achieve the most effective and economical policy possible for all ISs using the risk management approach for implementing security safeguards. To attain an acceptable level of risk, a combination of staff and field actions is necessary to develop local policy and guidance, identify threats, problems and requirements, and adequately plan for the required resources.