Security Awareness Month: 'Tip of the Day,' Week 1 Published Sept. 28, 2012 By Staff Reports 100th Air Refueling Wing Information Protection RAF MILDENHALL, England -- In honor of Security Awareness Month, the 100th Air Refueling Wing Information Protection office offers the following five tips to Team Mildenhall members: · Ensure classified media is secured o Removable hard drives containing classified information must be locked in a Government Services Agency-approved safe when computers are left unattended. · Continuous security clearance evaluation is important o Initially, a security clearance background check is completed to determine trustworthiness, loyalty and reliability for access to classified and sensitive information. o Throughout your career, commanders, supervisors and co-workers will continually monitor your behavior to ensure you remain trustworthy, loyal and reliable. o To preserve your security clearance, avoid behavior such as misuse of alcohol, illegal drugs, government charge card abuse and financial irresponsibility. · Single agency checks o If marriage or cohabitation occurs after a member completes a single scope background investigation (Top Secret), a single agency check is required. Team Mildenhall members must report status changes to their security manager. · Obtaining shredders authorized for classified destruction o Only purchase a shredder from the National Security Agency-approved equipment product list at http://www.nsa.gov/ia/government/mdg.cfm. · Dispose of sensitive information properly o When disposing of sensitive or classified information, use only approved destruction methods such as burning, cross-cut shredding, wet pulping, and chemical decomposition. Methods for clearing, sanitizing or destroying classified information technology equipment and media include overwriting, degaussing and physical destruction of components or media. For more information, call the information protection office at 238-3190.