116 STAT. 2260 PUBLIC LAW 107-296—NOV. 25, 2002 "(3) provide for development and maintenance of minimum controls required to protect Federal information and information systems; "(4) provide a mechanism for improved oversight of Federal agency information security programs; "(5) acknowledge that commercially developed information security products offer advanced, dynamic, robust, and effective information security solutions, reflecting market solutions for the protection of critical information infrastructures important to the national defense and economic security of the nation that are designed, built, and operated by the private sector; and "(6) recognize that the selection of specific technical hardware and software information security solutions should be left to individual agencies from among commercially developed products.". " §3532. Definitions Applicability. "(a) IN GENERAL. —Except as provided under subsection (b), the definitions under section 3502 shall apply to this subchapter. "(b) ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS. — As used in this subchapter— "(1) the term 'information security' means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide— "(A) integrity, which means guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information nonrepudiation and authenticity; "(B) confidentiality, which means preserving authorized restrictions on access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information; "(C) availability, which means ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information; and "(D) authentication, which means utilizing digital credentials to assure the identity of users and validate their access; "(2) the term 'national security system' means any information system (including any telecommunications system) used or operated by an agency or by a contractor of an agency, or other organization on behalf of an agency, the function, operation, or use of which— "(A) involves intelligence activities; "(B) involves cryptologic activities related to national security; "(C) involves command and control of military forces; "(D) involves equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or weapons system; or "(E) is critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions provided that this definition does not apply to a system that is used for routine administrative and business applications (including payroll, finance, logistics, and personnel management applications); "(3) the term 'information technology' has the meaning given that term in section 11101 of title 40; and "(4) the term 'information system' means any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation.
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