Intelligence According to the art.8 of the
Law on Security and Intelligence Service of the Republic of Moldova No 753-XIV of 23.12.1999,
Counterintelligence According to the art.8 of the
Law on Security and Intelligence Service of the Republic of Moldova No 753-XIV of 23.12.1999,
Informational security Cyberspace gets to be a comfortable platform for preparing and conducting computer crimes,
cyber terrorism and other malicious actions designed to affect, directly or indirectly, the
national security. Thus, the penetration of informational systems or electronic communication of public authorities and other institutions and public or private companies, which are dealing with sensitive information, may compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of this information, and therefore may cause financial or other damage, including the damage to state security. Also, penetration of informational systems afferent to critical infrastructure of the Republic of Moldova may result in unauthorized control over these systems, and therefore, in affecting the economic, social, political, informational, military and other kind of processes. However, the global nature of informational systems and
electronic communication networks, as well as transnational nature of
cybercrime requires close coordination among all responsible institutions at both national and global level. In this context, one of the primary missions is to prevent and combat aggression in
virtual environment, internal or external, targeting electronic communication systems of national importance. This mission is carried out in accordance with the legislation in force through the following operational processes: • developing proposals on ensuring informational security, developing and promoting of state policy and exercising control in ensuring the protection of state secret information in
cyberspace; • creating, ensuring the operation and security of governmental electronic communication systems, developing strategy and implementing national policy in the field of administration and ensuring the operation and security of special electronic communication systems; • providing the state leadership, ministries, departments and other public authorities, including abroad, according to the Nomenclature prepared by the Government, with governmental communication, that is coded, secret and other types of telecommunications, organizing and ensuring their safety; • tracking
radio emissions of radio-electronic transmitters the activity of which endangers the state security.
Intelligence analysis Intelligence analysis is the process of transformation of primary data, gathered by means of secret sources (
HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, MASINT) or open sources
(OSINT), in intelligence relevant for
national security. This activity means filtering, separating, comparing, and integrating the primary data. The result of this complex process is – producing intelligence products (complex document with timely, relevant and verified information, with assessment and forecasting elements). The main effort of the SIS analysts is to apply valuable judgments, especially to uncertainties, incomplete data, ambiguous situations, towards orienting the data gathering process (for intelligence and
counterintelligence components). The outcome of intelligence analysis (
intelligence product), usually, is disseminated to legal beneficiaries / decision-makers and is meant to support them in taking decisions of national interest in two priority directions: a) prevention/ mitigation of risks, threats and vulnerabilities to
national security; b) use of opportunities to promote
national interests. ==References==