Information security
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New Zealand Government Security Classification System
- Protecting official information from unauthorised access and accidental disclosure
- Overview of security classifications
- Security classifications for policy and privacy information
- Security classifications for national security information
- Identifying national security information
- Security classifications for Cabinet documents
- Security classifications for information from foreign governments
- Endorsement and compartmented markings
- Guidelines for protective markings
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Handling requirements for protectively-marked information and equipment
- Applying protective markings to official information
- Controlling and handling official information with protective markings
- Reproducing protectively-marked information
- Removing protected material from your premises
- Transferring or transporting protectively-marked information
- Destroying protectively-marked information securely
- Quick guides to handling protectively-marked information and assets
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Security classifications for information from foreign governments
This section covers applying security classifications to information from foreign governments.
New Zealand government organisations must adhere to any provisions concerning the security of people, information and assets contained in multilateral or bilateral agreements and arrangements to which New Zealand or the organisation is a party.
Reciprocal protection under bilateral security agreements
Bilateral security agreements can include reciprocal protection for the exchange of protectively-marked information. In such cases, apply the equivalent New Zealand security classification marking. Make sure the protection is equivalent to, but not less than, that required by the government providing the information.
Releasing information from foreign governments
You must get permission before you release information from foreign governments. You need their written approval.
Marking information when there are no bilateral security agreements
Consult the NZSIS for help to apply the correct security marking to protectively-marked information you receive from another country — a country New Zealand doesn’t have a bilateral security agreement with.
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