# National Security **Domain:** Governance / Defense / Public Safety **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **National security** concerns the protection of a state's population, institutions, territory, constitutional order, information and critical capabilities from serious internal and external threats. ## Cyber Context Networked infrastructure makes cybersecurity, supply-chain integrity, communications security and counterintelligence part of national security. [[wiki/Executive Order 14093|Executive Order 14093]] treats certain commercial-spyware risks as national-security and foreign-policy concerns. ## See Also [[wiki/National Security Architecture|National Security Architecture]], [[wiki/Counterintelligence Risk|Counterintelligence Risk]], [[wiki/Cybersecurity|Cybersecurity]]