What is the primary role of the Facility Security Officer (FSO) in SCI operations?

• A. The FSO handles budget and procurement.
• B. The FSO approves foreign disclosures.
• C. The FSO oversees facility security, ensures SCIF compliance, manages access lists, conducts training, and handles incident reporting.
• D. The FSO handles daily cleaning.

Answer: (C)

The FSO’s job is to be the security lead for the SCI facility, focused on protecting the physical security of the SCIF and the information inside. This includes overseeing overall facility security, ensuring the SCIF meets security standards and policy requirements, managing access control lists and visitor logs, coordinating or delivering security training, and handling incident reporting and follow-up. These duties keep SCI operations secure by controlling who can enter, how information is safeguarded, and how security incidents are addressed. The other options describe budgeting, foreign-disclosure approvals, or cleaning, which fall outside the FSO’s primary security oversight responsibilities.