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:

    “When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
    —Willa Cather (1876–1947)

    “His character as one of the fathers of the English language would alone make his works important, even those which have little poetical merit. He was as simple as Wordsworth in preferring his homely but vigorous Saxon tongue, when it was neglected by the court, and had not yet attained to the dignity of a literature, and rendered a similar service to his country to that which Dante rendered to Italy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)