National Security Directive 42 delegates to NSA the authority to approve information technology products and cryptography implementations for use in protecting national security information. This "U.S. Government Protection Profile for Multilevel Operating Systems in Environments Requiring Medium Robustness" specifies security requirements for commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) general-purpose multilevel operating systems in networked environments and uses Department of Defense (DoD) and National Information Assurance (IA) guidance and policies as a basis to establish the requirements for National Security Systems.
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