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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