Union Security Direktorate (USDK) is a Kalmar Union intelligence agency at the level of government agency (Direktorat) established on 1 January 1995 as the successor to fromer agencies of founder countries. It is responsible for proactive national security, identifying national objects of special interest (for example the national oil company Statoil) and reducing their vulnerability to internal and external threats. The agency performs threat analysis on physical objects of national interest, and is also known to work with experts on computer security and data encryption. The cooperation with the Union Gendarmerie Intelligence Unit (UGIU) and the Armed Forces Intelligence Service (AFIS) has been identified as a very important part of the task of maintaining an overview of potential threat