The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence conducts
AND OBJECTIVE technical analyses of foreign intelligence for the Department of
Energy (DOE), including the National Nuclear Security
Administration, and the United States Intelligence Community.
The Counterintelligence Directorate (CN), which is part of the
Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, is responsible for
protecting DOE information against espionage or other intelligence
activities by foreign entities. In support of this mission, CN
procures and maintains computer processing equipment such as
desktop computers, laptop computers, and computer servers. DOE
considers computer property to be “sensitive property,” which is
required to have specific controls in place. The objective of this
inspection was to determine the adequacy of internal controls over
computer property maintained by the CN Headquarters program
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