What is EEFI? (E-FEE)
By Victor Duckarmenn
OPSEC Program Manager
Essential Elements of Friendly Information (EEFI) are defined as the answers
to an intelligence agent's questions about your system, support, deployments
and force protection, otherwise known as the mission. Some examples of the
questions they want to answer relates directly to your critical information
listing (CIL). What is America's space capability now and in the immediate
future? Can Peterson Air Force base protect NORTHCOM? Does the Air Force
care about its people? What measures will the Air Force take if their
computer systems or installation are attacked? The program we all know as
OPSEC is the program to deny your enemy the answers to these questions.
OPSEC protects our official use and controlled unclassified information.
The purpose of the OPSEC program is to reduce the vulnerability of Air Force
missions from successful collection and exploitation of your critical
information providing the adversary answers to their critical questions
surrounding Peterson AFB. OPSEC applies to all activities that prepare,
sustain, or employ forces during all phases of your operations.
Do you post recall rosters in your cubicle? Do you post your retirement
orders with your social on your overhead or desk in the open? Do you copy
personal checks on the office copier and throw them into a recycle bin? Do
you tear out your notes on a sensor system management meeting on future
state space operations and put them into a dumpster or outdated recycle bin
under your desk? Do you shred 100% of all official information? Do you shred
your personal information at home? Do you have a unsecure router at home
while you work on official business? Do you use a personal flash drive at
work? Do you or your family members talk about your mission to your friends
and young children at home with access to the internet? Do you allow your
family to post deployment pictures on a social engineering sites located on
the internet? Do you blog with unknown folks on the net and talk about the
military and vent about weaknesses of leaders you witness on base? These are
all examples of vulnerabilities that everyone in the Air Force must
consider. I recommend a ready, aim fire approach to protecting information.
The game Tic-Tac-Toe comes to mind. How does it apply to OPSEC?
OPSEC can be seen by your adversary as a game of tic-tac-toe. If you use
OPSEC preventing collection of intelligence you place the "X" in the center
square. Be smart, be a hard target. Make sure your folks use and think OPSEC
and place that "X" in the center square. Ensure the answers to your enemy's
questions to go unanswered.
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