What Is COMSEC? Training, Updates, Audits & More
Security Boulevard, Friday, April 18th, 2025
Here at Ignyte, we talk a lot about various overarching information security frameworks, like FedRAMP, CMMC, and ISO 27001. Within these overall frameworks exist a range of smaller and narrower standards, including COMSEC.
If you've seen COMSEC as a term, you may be passingly familiar with what it is, but if you need to know the details, it's surprisingly muddy to identify with specificity. So, we decided to talk about it.
What is COMSEC?
COMSEC is simply an abbreviation - not an acronym - for Communications Security. It applies to a range of different departments and institutions, and many of them publish their own definitions, though they're all largely identical.