# Counterintelligence Risk **Domain:** Intelligence / Security / Threat Assessment **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Counterintelligence risk** is the possibility that foreign intelligence services, proxies or other hostile actors will gain access to personnel, information, systems, operations or relationships in ways that enable espionage, influence, coercion or compromise. ## Spyware Context [[wiki/Executive Order 14093|Executive Order 14093]] treats foreign commercial-spyware access to U.S. government systems or personnel as a potentially significant counterintelligence or security risk. ## See Also [[wiki/Advanced Persistent Threat|Advanced Persistent Threat]], [[wiki/Cyber Attribution|Cyber Attribution]], [[wiki/National Security|National Security]]