Security protection
Security protection means protection of security-sensitive activities or data - against espionage, sabotage, terrorist attacks and other crimes that may threaten the activities.
As an authority, KI carries out a security protection analysis to assess the need for measures linked to the Security Protection law. If an assessment is made that operations and/or data are covered by security protection, measures must be taken in the areas of physical, personnel and information security.
Who should do security protection analysis?
Authorities and private actors must, based on the Security Protection law, investigate the need for measures and document it in a security protection analysis. The security protection analysis is important for one structured and systematic safety protection work and is a prerequisite for to be able to take the necessary measures.
The security protection analysis must provide answers to:
• What is to be protected?
• Against what, why is the protection needed?
• How should it be protected?
Security-sensitive activities
Security-sensitive activities are those that are of importance to Sweden's security, in the following categories:
- Sweden's external security
- Sweden's internal security
- Activities of national importance to society
- Activities of importance to Sweden's economy
- Activities that can generate damage to other security-sensitive activities
Security classified information
Security classified information refers to information relating to security-sensitive activities, and which is therefore covered by secrecy under the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (“Offentlighets- och sekretesslagen”)(2009:400), or which would have been covered by secrecy under that act if it had been applicable.
This could, for example, be a project that handles information about security-sensitive activities conducted by another organisation or external party.
Read more about security protection analysis in the security police's guidelines.