Info Systems Security Program (ISSP)

The Information Systems Security Program (ISSP) within the Navy, is focused on ensuring the protection of Navy and joint cyberspace systems from exploitation and attack. This includes wired and wireless telecommunications systems, cybersecurity systems, and the content processed, stored, or transmitted within them. The program aims to provide essential information trust characteristics such as availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation to the Navy's warfighters. Specific objectives include implementing a secure infrastructure for the generation, management, and delivery of digital certificates for secure electronic transactions through the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and providing Navy commanders with timely, trusted, and comprehensive situational awareness of the cyberspace domain through the Navy Cyber Situational Awareness (NCSA) command and control infrastructure.

The program also focuses on Computer Network Defense (CND) capabilities both afloat and ashore to secure the cyber domain against network infiltrations resulting in service/network denial, degradation, and disruptions. Additionally, it aims to modernize legacy cryptographic equipment including families of Communications Security (COMSEC) and Transmission Security (TRANSEC) devices to meet mandated National Security Agency (NSA) cease key dates for modernized encryption. The program also includes Advanced Cryptographic Capabilities (ACC), Cryptographic Modernization (CM), Key Management (KM), and SHARKCAGE - a defensive cyberspace operations analysis enclave for maritime forces afloat and ashore. These efforts are essential in meeting rapidly evolving threats and vulnerabilities in cybersecurity.