CIA Restructuring Adds New Cyber Focus

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http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/03/cia-restructuring-adds-new-cyber-focus/106953/

By Patrick Tucker
defenseone.com
March 6, 2015

The CIA will create a new directorate designed to boost the agency’s 
ability to collect and use digital intelligence in operations, agency CIA 
Director John Brennan announced. The move to launch a “directorate of 
digital innovation” comes a two weeks after the Washington Post first 
reported that Brennan would be restructuring the agency to place a much 
stronger emphasis on the use of computers and electronic intelligence.

The move is a big change for the agency, one that reflects a fundamental 
evolution in intelligence gathering. CIA traditionally has been tasked 
with collecting information from human sources (also called HUMINT). The 
NSA, conversely, is tasked with collecting information from electric 
sources in the form of signals (also called SIGINT). Today’s announcement 
is a formal recognition that the electronic world is overtaking the human 
one, and that collecting information from humans now has a digital 
component to it.

“Digital technology holds great promise for mission excellence, while 
posing serious threats to the security of our operations and information,” 
Brennan said, in message to the Intelligence Community, released Friday. 
“We must place our activities and operations in the digital domain at the 
very center of all our mission endeavors.” Brennan said a new senior 
position will “oversee the acceleration of digital and cyber integration 
across all of our mission areas.”

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