security services
Guarding and surveillance
Security services refers to organizations responsible for protecting a nation's interests, typically through intelligence gathering, counterespionage, and counterterrorism.
The term usually means government agencies like the CIA, MI5, or FSB: He spent twenty years in the security services.
In commercial contexts, security services means private companies providing guards, surveillance, or protection: The mall contracted security services after the break-ins.
- counterintelligenceDefense against enemy espionage
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- covert opsSecret military missions
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- loss preventionProtecting store inventory
guard dog · HUMINT · cryptography · encryption · GRU · spy agency · secret service · intelligence agency · Cheka · access control · bodyguards · alarms · KGB · NKVD · protection · alarm system · patrol · perimeter
- IT servicesIT consulting, IT support, help desk, tech support, remote support
- North KoreaPyongyang, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-il
- Cannabis Industrydispensary, dispensaries, pot shop, grow operation, grow ops
- KyrgyzstanTulip Revolution, nomadic culture, Kant, 1991
- governmentgovernment, ministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch
- industriesbusiness, factories, education, health, supply chain
security servicescriminal networks
Coordinated groups committing illegal acts
enemy combatants · insurgent groups · criminal syndicates · criminal enterprises · organized crime
security servicesfree press
Journalism without censorship
open society · whistleblowers · civil society · democratic accountability · freedom of information
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