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

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