Cybersecurity
How social media can help spot insider threats
A recent directive on using individuals’ social media activity in the security clearance process is a good first step, but it could go even further.
Cybersecurity
How synced can (and should) NSA and CIA be on cyber?
NSA and the CIA have revamped themselves in the past year. FCW asked officials how well Fort Meade and Langley are collaborating in cyberspace in pursuit of their separate missions.
Cybersecurity
White House policy defines cyber roles
A new presidential policy directive clarifies the responsibilities of federal law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies in responding to significant cyber incidents.
Cybersecurity
CTIIC chief: We're up and running
The nascent Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center provides a mechanism for attributing cyber breaches to threat actors.
Cybersecurity
Tighe takes over naval intel, info warfare
A highly sensitive Navy post is going to a senior officer who -- unlike her predecessor -- brings an active security clearance.
Cybersecurity
NGA makes disaster-response app public
Making the Mobile Awareness GEOINT Environment app public is NGA’s latest move to contribute to an open-source geospatial community shaped by the private sector.
Cybersecurity
IC wants sensors to evaluate personnel performance
Working in the intelligence community can be stressful. The IC's research arm wants to use sensors to evaluate how people respond to the demands of the job.
Cybersecurity
Security clearances dip in 2015
ODNI credits implementation of data initiatives for a reduction in clearances.
Cybersecurity
Burr keeps up pressure for encryption bill
The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence made a pitch for his encryption access legislation by framing the technology as an enabler of confidential communications among terrorists.
Cybersecurity
Brennan warns on encryption
In public testimony, CIA Director John Brennan cautioned lawmakers on how terrorists and other malefactors are taking advantage of commercial encryption tools.
People
The IC details its struggles with diversity
In its first public report on workforce demographics, the intelligence community reveals it lags behind the federal government on diversity.
Cybersecurity
Hayden: Russian cyber sophistication derives from criminal groups
Deterring Russia is harder than deterring China from hitting the U.S. in cyberspace, says retired Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA and NSA director.
Cybersecurity
NGA follows DOD to Silicon Valley
This summer the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will open an outpost in Silicon Valley to create a presence for the intelligence agency similar to the Defense Department's DIUx.
Cybersecurity
Federal background checks could soon factor in social media
After years of planning, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence approved the incorporation of public social media feeds in security clearance investigations -- a move that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Digital Government
New details on IC's insider threat patrol
Robert Litt, ODNI's top laywer, told a closed Senate hearing in 2012 about how intelligence agencies use data and computer systems to uncover potential insider threats.
Cybersecurity
What DIUx might mean for intel
The intelligence community wants to build on the Pentagon's effort to get private-sector innovators involved earlier in the acquisition cycle.
Modernization
NSA official: ICITE could boost metadata capabilities
Regardless of the source of metadata, "you're going to get improvements by merit of how the data is tagged and how the attributes are assigned," NSA Deputy CIO Sally Holcomb said.
Cybersecurity
Clapper: Snowden accelerated commercial crypto by 7 years
The director of national intelligence reiterated the view that industry/government collaboration is essential to finding a way to balance privacy and law enforcement access.
Cybersecurity
Intel privacy board chief resigns
David Medine, chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, submitted his resignation to the White House on March 29.
Modernization