NATIONAL SECURITY AUTHORITY

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NATIONAL SECURITY AUTHORITY
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Contents

• Legislation
• Status of NSA
• Organisational structure of NSA

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• Function of NSA
• Draft of Act on Protection of Classified
  Materials and on Amending and Supplementing
  Certain Laws

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Legislation

• Establishment and competence was determined by
  Act of the National Council of the Slovak
  Republic No. 241/2001 Coll. on Protection of
  Classified Materials and on Amending and
  Supplementing Certain Laws from 30 May 2001
• NSA took over the full competence on 1 November
  2001
• Act of the National Council of the Slovak
  Republic No 215/2002 Coll. on
• Electronic Signature and on Amending and
  Supplementing Certain Laws

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Regulations

• Regulation of NSA No. 432/2001 Coll. that
  specifies the list of classified materials
• Regulation of NSA No. 455/2001 Coll. on
  Administrative Security
• Regulation of NSA No. 2/2002 Coll. on Personnel
  Security

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Regulations

• Regulation of NSA No. 28/2002 Coll. on
  Industrial Security
• Regulation of NSA No. 88/2002 Coll. on Physical
  and Building Security
• Regulation of NSA No. 89/2002 Coll. that
  regulates details on the certification and use of
  mechanical barrier devices and technical security
  devices

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Regulations

• Regulation of NSA No. 90/2002 Coll. on Security
  of Technical devices
• Regulation of NSA No. 91/2002 Coll. that assignes
  details on cryptographic protection of
  information
• Regulations of NSA No. 537-542/2002 Coll. to Act
  of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
  No. 215/2002 Coll. on Electronic signature

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Status of NSA in the structure of the State
bodies of the Slovak Republic
Government Prime Minister

Ministry of Interior MINISTER
Ministry of Defence MINISTER
NSA Director
SIS Director
Police Force
Military Defence Intelligence Service
Director
Military Intelligence Service Director
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Status of NSA in the Security System of the
Slovak Republic
International Security and Economic Organisations
Government of the Slovak Republic
National Council of the Slovak Republic
President of the Slovak Republic
Crisis Headquarters
Security Council of the Slovak Republic Advisory
body of the Government of the Slovak Republic
SIS
Foreign Policy Committe
Civil Emergency Planning Committee
Committee for Coordination of Intelligence
Services activities
Defence Planning Committee
MFA, MoD, MoI NSA
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Function of NSA

• PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED MATERIALS
• CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
• ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE

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Structure of NSA
Director
PERSONNEL SECURITY

INDUSTRIAL SECURITY
INFORMATION SECURITY
ADMINISTRATIVE SECURITY AND CENTRAL REGISTRY
PHYSICAL AND BUILDING SECURITY
ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
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• PERSONNEL SECURITY
• Performance of security clearances of persons and
  issuing of certificates
• INDUSTRIAL SECURITY
• Clearances of firms that receive classified
  materials from the state

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• INFORMATON SECURITY
• INFOSEC
• Cryptographic protection of information
• ADMINISTRATIVE SECURITY
• Record of classified materials
• Central registry

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• PHYSICAL AND BUILDING SECURITY
• Measures for protection of classified materials
  in buildings and places
• ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
• Creation and control of rules for the use of
  electronic signature in practice

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Draft of Act on Protection of Classified
Materials and on Amending and Supplementing
Certain Laws
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• TRANSFER OF CLEARANCES FROM THE MINISTRY OF
  DEFENCE UNDER THE COMPETENCE OF NSA
• DETERMINATION OF SECURITY RISKS
• MAKING TRANSPARENT THE APPEAL PROCESS
• DECREASING THE NUMBER OF EXEMPTED PERSONS

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• ABOLITION OF THE LIST OF CLASSIFIED MATERIALS
• MINIMALISATION OF THE CORRUPTION RISK IN
  INDUSTRIAL SECURITY
• STABILISATION OF THE POSITION OF THE
• NSA DIRECTOR