Pick the one of the 17 tenets that you think is the most important and defend your choice. Note of the 17 tenets: - Tenets 1 & 2 - Executive Responsibility & Support • Responsibility - Head of each agency • Leadership drive importance • ODNI - Tenet 3 - Ethical Symmetry • The ethics need to make sense to those who agree to be bound by the rules. • No CI dictators Tenet 4 - Need to be there. • Access to physical spaces should be limited to those who are known AND have a need to be there. Tenet 5 - Need to Know • Control access to (and even knowledge of the existence of) information to only the absolute necessary. Tenet 6 - Counter Reconnaissance • Counter - To prevent • Reconnaissance -Seeking information • Environmental scanning • SWOT Tenet 7 - Realistic Policies and Procedures • Realistic not rigid • Fluid and adaptable Tenet 8 - Synergistic Approach • Modularity of countermeasures • More than the whole Tenet 9 - Early Detection • No agency/facility is 100% intrusion proof • Detection process Tenet 10 - Defense-in-Depth • Detect, then Delay- Why? • Barriers • Loss of momentum • No single point/path of failure • How many layers? • What are you protecting? • Risk threshold? • Budget? • Time to protect? • Personnel Security • Information Security Tenet 11 - Unpredictability • A barrier that is predictable can be overcome more easily • Delay for response is the goal Tenet 12 - Core Hardening • Strongest barrier around the target • Smallest physical profile • Avoid single vulnerabilities • The system itself needs to be protected too Tenet 13 - Delineate and Prioritize Identify - What do I need to protect specifically? Prioritize those bodies of information that warrant counterintelligence protection. Prioritize the systems, processes, institutions, and individuals in which such ronnatonresioes oo. Tenet 14 - Quality over Quantity Small but well trained vs large but poorly trained "Efficiency and quality security are absolutely incompatible sort cuts" Richard Helms, fm DCI Tenet 15 - Cooperation • Interagency • Law enforcement Tenets 16 & 17 - Reduction & Complicity • Security strategies need to be able to reduce the list of suspected perpetrators to the smallest possible pool. • Complicity ensures that, to penetrate the security arrangements, it will require two or more people

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I would argue that Tenet 10 DefenseinDepth is the most important among the listed tenets DefenseinDepth is a holistic and layered approach to security ... View the full answer