National Security Institute
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The National Security Institute (NSI) was founded in 1985 by Stephen S. Burns and David A. Marston, two leading-edge security practitioners whose combined experience included over thirty-five years in government and corporate security environments where they were responsible for designing key programs for protecting some of the nation’s most sensitive technology and business secrets.
Established at the height of the Cold War, the National Security Institute quickly became the leading organization dedicated to assisting cleared defense contractors in understanding the threats to national security. Today, the threat focus has shifted from the military, political and intelligence targets characteristic of the Cold War to industrial and economic espionage on a global scale.
With a long and distinguished record of excellence, the National Security Institute works closely with government and industry in the identification of organizational vulnerability and the deployment of appropriate security countermeasures. Virtually every major defense contractor in the United States is a client of the National Security Institute’s information services, security awareness programs, or seminars.
The world has changed a great deal since 1985. So has the National Security Institute. While NSI maintains its respected flagship information services for government and defense contractor security executives, the company has evolved into an organization that serves both the commercial industry as well as the defense and military markets.
NSI’s information security awareness programs are widely used by America’s leading corporations to educate employees to the risks of critical information loss from hackers, spies and data thieves. These continuous, enterprise-wide programs are helping companies avoid costly security breaches by creating end-user awareness and arming employees with practical, fail-safe solutions for protecting vital corporate information.
The prestigious Advisory Board of the National Security Institute is composed of nine members with impressive security, military, intelligence and academic credentials. Current members include:
- General Earl F. Anderson — U.S.M.C. (Ret.)
- Maynard C. Anderson — President, Arcadia Group Worldwide, Inc.
- Gregory Gwash — Security Director, The Boeing Company
- Bernard A. Lamoureux — Security Director, Lockheed Martin Corp.
- Dr. Dale Masi —President, Masi Research Consultants
- Noel D. Matchett — President, Information Security, Inc.
- John P. O’Neill — Security Director, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- Jay H. Thomas III — Security Manager, Raytheon Company
- N. MacDonnell Ulsch — Dir. Technology Risk Management, Jefferson Wells. Inc.
The National Security Institute provides a variety of professional information and security awareness services to corporate, government, and defense industry clients throughout the United States. More than 2 million corporate employees and security professionals read NSI’s newsletters and reports. These publications include SECURITYsense, the Employee Security Connection, and the NSI Advisory.
SECURITYSense is a monthly online security awareness service that helps corporate and IS security managers educate employees and raise awareness of threats to critical information systems from hackers, spies and disgruntled insiders. An enterprise-wide license enables organizations to economically provide ongoing security awareness to all employees with distribution via corporate Intranet. Monthly security awareness articles are provided in both plain text and graphics format via e-mail and may be further customized by subscribers.
The Employee Security Connection is a quarterly eight-page newsletter designed for cleared defense contractor clients to use as an educational tool for creating employee awareness of the threats to classified information. Subscribers are given reprint permission for facility-wide distribution to employees. The newsletter is also furnished in .PDF format for display on the facility’s Intranet security site.
NSI’s Security Policy and Procedures, provides a complete set of 32 security procedures designed to offer compliance with the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual. These diskettes comprise an on-line PC-based security library of current security requirements for the protection of classified information and contractor security procedures that can be custom tailored to each facility’s security program.
In addition, NSI has published a number of special reports including a study of convicted CIA spy Aldrich Ames, and an assessment of how to protect U.S. corporate secrets in the global economy.
NSI's Annual IMPACT Conference and Exhibition
NSI’s IMPACT conference examines in detail emerging security threats to classified and proprietary information. Held annually in the nation’s capitol, the three-day seminars are attended by defense contractor security directors, as well as security managers from the military services and federal government agencies.
The NSI IMPACT conference has been held annually for the past 22 years. The program is designed to provide training and networking opportunities for professionals in security, intelligence, risk analysis, counterintelligence, infrastructure protection and related fields. The seminar typically draws 400 + attendees.
The IMPACT program provides attendees with key strategies and practical skills to assess and manage security risks, protect vital government and corporate secrets and secure their organization’s information assets.
The theme for the most recent IMPACT 2007! program was “Building A Culture of Security” A sampling of the 23 topics covered include:
• Global Terrorism 2007: Forecast and Trends
The Honorable Frances Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism, The White House
• Building A Culture of Preparedness: Securing U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Mr. Paul B. Kurtz, Partner and Chief Operating Officer
Good Harbor Consulting, LLC
• Managing Risk To and From the Mobile Workforce
N. MacDonnell Ulsch, Director of Technology Risk Management
Jefferson Wells
• DSS 2007: Security Program Priorities in the Coming Year
Kathleen M. Watson, Director
Defense Security Service
• Defending Against Cyber Threats to Defense Networks
Robert F. Lentz, Director for Information Assurance
Department of Defense
