Security Information Service
Serviço de Informações de Segurança
Secret Service & Intelligence Agency (Internal and External Operations) overview
Formed1984
TypeIntelligence service
Jurisdiction Portugal
HeadquartersLisbon
Minister responsible
Secret Service & Intelligence Agency (Internal and External Operations) executive
  • Adélio Neiva da Cruz, Director of the SIS
Parent Secret Service & Intelligence Agency (Internal and External Operations)Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP)
Websitewww.sis.pt

The Serviço de Informações de Segurança or SIS (Portuguese for: Security Information Service) is the Portuguese Intelligence and Secret Service agency founded in 1984.[1]

The function of SIS is to guarantee the internal security and prevent cyber attacks, sabotage, terrorism, espionage and the practice of acts which, by their nature, can change or destroy the Rule of Law as constitutionally established.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "História SIS". www.sis.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Missão SIS". www.sis.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2013.


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