"The ability to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communications
-- a capability in which the United States leads the world -- gives our nation a unique advantage."
The Information Assurance mission provides the solutions, products, and services, and conducts defensive information
operations, to achieve information assurance for information infrastructures critical to U.S. national security interests.
The foreign signals intelligence or SIGINT mission allows for an effective, unified organization and control of all the
foreign signals collection and processing activities of the United States. NSA is authorized to produce SIGINT in accordance
with objectives, requirements, and priorities established by the Director of Central Intelligence with the advice of the National
Foreign Intelligence Board.
