NZSIS Annual Report 2025

Our Mission

Keeping New Zealand and New Zealanders safe and secure.

We support protecting New Zealand as a free, open, and democratic society by contributing to:

• the protection of New Zealand’s national security
• the international relations and well-being of New Zealand
• the economic well-being of New Zealand

We achieve this through:

• Security Intelligence: Detecting, investigating, assessing and mitigating threats to New Zealand. 
• Foreign Intelligence: Collecting, analysing, and sharing intelligence to further New Zealand’s interests and those of our region. 
• Protective Security: Providing services and advice so New Zealand government agencies and organisations can protect their people, information and other assets. 

 
Our contributions to National Security can be seen through achieving our four impacts:

• Countering espionage and foreign interference: Detecting, investigating and disrupting activity in or against New Zealand. We act as the lead agency in seeking to understand and assess these threats so action can be taken to disrupt and deter. 
• Countering violent extremism and terrorism: Detecting and investigating threats posed by violent extremism in New Zealand and overseas and working with other agencies to stop these threats escalating into acts of terrorism.
• Protecting people, information and assets: Enhancing the ability of New Zealand government agencies and organisations to protect their people, information and other assets through our Protective Security leadership role.
• Contributing to a secure, prosperous and resilient Pacific: Working with others to detect, disrupt and deter activities which undermine New Zealand’s national security and that of our partners in the Pacific. This includes supporting Pacific partners to build their protective security.

By pursuing our strategy, we will drive progress in the following three focus areas

Delivering impact with and for others:

• New Zealand and New Zealanders have trust and confidence in us 
• We maximise our impact through relationships

Improving our ways of working:

• We are a learning and innovative organisation
• We focus on discovering unknown threats
• We provide a fantastic place to work

Utilising data and digital:

• We are modern and experiment with technology 
• We have expert data and digital capabilities

The NZSIS Strategy 2024-2029 is focused on continuously improving our ability to find, understand and mitigate threats.

We live in a complex and ever-changing world where we face new challenges every day in our ability to identify, understand and mitigate threats. The NZSIS needs to continually ensure we are robust and ready to respond to whatever the future might bring. In late 2023 we completed a refresh of the NZSIS Strategy to ensure our capabilities remain relevant and can evolve in line with New Zealand’s changing security environment.

The key components of the strategy are set out below.