Security Service

Security Service or security service may refer to:

Government
  • Security agency, a governmental institution for information gathering
  • MI5, also called the Security Service, the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency
  • U.S. Air Force Security Service, a former designation of the United States Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
  • RCMP Security Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's political intelligence branch, replaced by Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the 1980s
  • Swedish Security Service, the security service of Sweden, belonging to the Swedish National Police Board
  • Secret service, a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data
  • Secret police, a police agency which operates in secrecy and beyond the law to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian political regime
Other
  • Security service (telecommunication), security architecture for the interconnection of open systems
  • Security (finance), a fungible, negotiable financial instrument representing financial value
  • Any company which provides security. See Category:Security companies
  • Private Military Companies, private military contractors

Famous quotes containing the words security and/or service:

    “...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade union movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.”
    —Mary Anderson (1872–1964)

    “The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
    —Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)