Foreign Visit

Please consider the following questions regarding how you protect your technology, information and personnel from foreign visitors.

Q1. How do you prepare employees to coordinate foreign visitors?

  • Submit the names (and other identifying information) of the PRE-DECISIONAL; not vetted or coordinated visitors to DCSA Prior to hosting foreign visitors.

Q2. How do you prepare employees to host foreign visitors?

  • Prior to hosting foreign visitors, brief all escorts and personnel on what can and cannot be discussed with delegation members.
  • Develop standard responses to questions that are sensitive, classified, proprietary, or outside the scope of the visit.
  • Review the paths visitors will take during the visit to ensure visitors will not be able to see or overhear sensitive or classified information.
  • Train escorts on identifying suspicious behavior and questions and appropriate responses.
  • Debrief all escorts and personnel and report questionable activities.
  • Limit cell phone and other recording device use in the facility.
  • Do not allow foreign visitors unsupervised access to information systems
  • Do not allow foreign visitors to introduce removable media or upload software to information systems
  • Limit cell phone and other recording device use in the facility.

Click on the individual cells in the matrix for suggested Countermeasures.