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:

    “Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “O good old man, how well in thee appears
    The constant service of the antique world,
    When service sweat for duty, not for meed!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)