OPSEC Journal

OPSEC Professionals Society Journal

The OPSEC Journal is a publication edited under the auspices of the OPSEC Professionals Society. It is the only professional publication dedicated to the OPSEC profession that features in depth articles about OPSEC and OPSEC-related issues. Most of our readers have at least a basic understanding of OPSEC, however, articles at the basic or introductory level may be acceptable, particularly if they describe a new or unique approach. All OPS members and non-members are invited to submit papers for possible inclusion in the Journal.

Articles for consideration should be at least 2,000 words in length and submitted via E-mail, on floppy disk, or hardcopy. The articles should be double-spaced with standard one inch top, bottom, left and right margins. We prefer to receive articles in MSWord format. We are seeking authors to write articles on any aspect of OPSEC or OPSEC-related topics; however, the following topics are of special interest:

"Lessons learned" case studies
Real world applications of OPSEC
OPSEC in Risk Management. Information Assurance, and/or Information Warfare
OPSEC Best Practices
OPSEC Tools and Techniques
OPSEC Program development and management
OPSEC Surveys and Assessments

Abstracts of articles in Journals 1-6:

The OPSEC Journal, First Edition, 1993

The Nature of OPSEC - George F. Jelen
National Security Policy and the Protection of Strategic Economic Information - Michelle Van Cleave
Economic Counterintelligence the Role of the U.S. Government in Protecting U.S. Companies from Industrial Espionage - Richard M. Helms
Counter-Competitor Intelligence: Keeping Company Secrets Secret - Arion N. Pattakos, CPP, OCP
Walking the Tightrope - Howard M. Ferrill, CPP, OCP
Structuring OPSEC - Donald R. Peeples, Ph.D. and Fred Lothrop, OCP
You Know He is Coming, But You Don't Have to Bake Him a Cake! (OPSEC and On-Site Inspection) - Rosemary N. Hutchins
Maskirovka and OPSEC - Greg Howe
Determining Critical and Sensitive Information - Donald R. Peeples, Ph.D.

The OPSEC Journal, Second Edition, 1995

How It Was Done - Robert A. "Sam" Fisher, OCP
The Laws of OPSEC: Understanding the Basics - Kurt W. Haase, OCP
Risk Management in System Protection - Dr. John A. Wiles
Step Two: Threat Analysis - Arion N. "Pat" Pattakos, CPP. OCP
The Hughes Glomar Explorer Project - Richard A. Sampson. OCP
Focus: OPSEC Measures - Liles W. Creighton
OPSEC for Stealing Henry - Michael F. Dilley, OCP
Operational Deception in Both Public and Private Sectors - Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D
Maximizing the Facility Agreement: Protecting Confidential Business Information and Ensuring Effective Chemical Weapons Convention Inspections - Kyle B. Olson

The OPSEC Journal, Third Edition, 1996

Comments Presented by Director Magaw -- at the 1996 National Operations Security Conference
The Challenges of Implementing an OPSEC Program -- by Iris C. Puentes, OPSEC Manager, Phillips Laboratory
The Role of Management in Protecting Proprietary Information,-- by Arion N. (Pat) Pattakos, OCP, CPP, Director, Programs Integration Beta Analytics International, Inc.
Terrorism Come to Tokyo: The Aum Shinri Ky Incident -- by John F. Quinn
Safeguarding Our Proprietary Corporate Information -- by James B. Woods, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hughes Electronics Corporation
Talking Trash -- by Patrick Keough, Document Destructors, Inc.
A Framework for Understanding Intelligence -- by Richard Horowitz
Information Control in the Information Age -- by David Cameron
OPS Code of Ethics

The OPSEC Journal, Fourth Edition, 1998

Sun Tzu's Art of War: An Operations Security Manual - Catherine A. Howell
Counterintelligence and the OPSEC Connection Past, Present, and Future - Arion N. Pattakos, CPP, OCP
Creating an OPSEC Culture - Wayne J. Morris, OCP
Breaking and Entering - Michael F. Dilley
Competitive Effectiveness and Secrecy - Liles W. Creighton
Information Warfare: Fallacies in the Analysis of an Asymmetric Strategic Threat - Richard F. Forno
The Falklands War: Result of Britain's Lack of OPSEC - Susana Johnson
Is Your Web Site Hurting Your Company? - D.L. Nousen, G.W. Luczynski, P.L. Novak, and D.A. Varley

The OPSEC Journal, Fifth Edition, 2002

Who's Stealing Your Information? - Dorothy Denning, Ph.D
Being Unknowable Equals Good OPSEC - Colonel G.I. Wilson, USMC & Richard F. Forno
Operating in a Coalition Environment: Operations Security (OPSEC), Decision-Making and Operational Effectiveness - Patrick J. Geary, OCP
"We Have Met the Enemy, and It Is Us!" The Need for Common Sense, Not Only Technical Competence - Richard F. Forno

The OPSEC Journal, Sixth Edition, 2008

Is the Term "Operational" or "Operations" Security? - Arion (Pat) Pattakos, OCP, CPP
OPSEC in Military Logistics: What's the Risk? - Patrick J. Geary, OCP
OPSEC and Risk Mitigation in Action: Tracing the Origin and Viewing the Future - Samuel V. Crouse, OCP
Demystifying OPSEC Assessments: A "How To" Primer - by Daryl Haegley, OCP, CCO
A Pretext for War: An Insider Threat and an OPSEC Failure - A Book Review - William M. Feidl, OCP