What is the security responsibility of the participating agencies?
Participating agencies are responsible for ensuring that their networks and computing resources are adequately protected and monitored to minimise the risk of them being used to attack another party on or through the GSN (e.g. through a “back-door” into the network) and to provide appropriate protection to other agencies’ information as required by its security classification (IN CONFIDENCE, SENSITIVE or RESTRICTED). It should be noted however that the GSN’s own security mechanisms ensure that there is little risk of a threat from an agency affecting other GSN participating agencies.
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