https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nsa-launches-new-cyber-defense-directorate/2019/09/30/c18585f6-e219-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html
By Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post
September 30, 2019
The National Security Agency on Tuesday will launch an organization to prevent
cyberattacks on sensitive government and defense-industry computers — with an
eye also toward helping shield critical private-sector systems.
For decades the agency had a cyberdefense organization, the Information
Assurance Directorate (IAD), that focused on safeguarding the government’s
classified and sensitive networks, as well as the private sector’s, when asked.
What is new, NSA officials said, is that the agency is hitching together under
one roof threat detection, cyberdefense and future-technologies personnel.
They are calling it the Cybersecurity Directorate.
“The mission of the organization is to prevent and eradicate threats,” said its
director, Anne Neuberger, who reports directly to the NSA director, Gen. Paul
Nakasone. “Our focus is going to be on operationalizing intelligence.”
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