Nearly 200 Pentagon cybersecurity regulations, all on a handy, 2-foot-long chart

Here's a mindblowingly complex and exhaustive info-chart outlining the 193 documents that govern the activities of the Pentagon's geek squads.

Developed by the DASD CIIA (that’s the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity & Information Assurance), the goal of the chart is to “capture the tremendous breadth of applicable policies, some of which many IA practitioners may not even be aware, in a helpful organizational scheme.” And what a breadth it is: dozens and dozens of directives, strategies, policies, memos, regulations, strategies, white papers, and instructions, from “CNSSD-901: National Security Telecommunications and Information Security Systems Issuance System to “CNSSP-10: National Policy Governing Use of Approved Security Containers in Information System Security Applications to SP 800-37 R1: Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems.

The chart is two feet long. More at Danger Room, where you'll also find a larger copy of the image.

(thanks, Noah Shachtman).

• [Anonymous]

  It sounds like how to best level your character in an MMO.

• [OtiGoji]

  “Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”

• [Anonymous]

  I’m saving this for my current & all future IT jobs.

• [Rob]

  “…in a helpful organizational scheme.”

  Yes. Helpful. First word that popped into my mind.

• [turn_self_off]

  There has to be some contradictions lurking in there, as there is no way anything gets that complex under human supervision without creating its own paradox.

• [Anonymous]

  Funny, having recently worked in a job that was all about these rules I never thought much about how crazy they looked from the outside. Fun stuff.