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The NSA recognizes it needs to share more nation-state threat data, and faster

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The National Security Agency’s new Cybersecurity Directorate wants to more quickly share threat data in response to private sector criticism that the agency has been slow to provide key information that companies need to protect themselves, the head of the new foreign intelligence and digital defense outfit said Wednesday. The NSA’s impetus for creating the Cybersecurity Directorate, set to launch Oct. 1, was to address complaints that context is lacking in U.S. intelligence community’s threat reports that are issued to private companies. By sharing data such as malicious domain names or IP addresses long after hackers have abandoned them, NSA is not providing the real-time information corporate security teams need to block attacks. Now, the directorate will provide additional context to help sectors like the defense industrial base and election technology providers “prevent and eradicate” intruders, according to Anne Neuberger, director of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate. The goal for the directorate, which was […]

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‘This isn’t IAD 2.0’: NSA’s new Cybersecurity Directorate plots its mission

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The National Security Agency has started to lay the groundwork and select the leadership for its new Cybersecurity Directorate, which will be focused on fusing together signals intelligence with the agency’s cybersecurity protection mission, CyberScoop has learned. Neal Ziring, who most recently served as the NSA’s technical director for capabilities, will be the Cybersecurity Directorate’s technical director, an NSA spokesperson tells CyberScoop. Dave Frederick, the NSA’s chief of strategic counter cyber operations, will be the new deputy director, an NSA spokesperson said. In his most recent role, Ziring was responsible for acting as a liaison to both private industry and other government agencies. Ziring previously served as the technical director of the agency’s defensive operations directorate, the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD). Frederick was responsible for coordinating defensive and offensive cyber missions. NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone announced the new Cybersecurity Directorate earlier this week. It will be run by Anne […]

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NSA to establish new Cybersecurity Directorate to boost defense

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The National Security Agency is creating a cybersecurity directorate to better protect the country against cyberthreats from foreign adversaries, an NSA spokesperson told CyberScoop. Anne Neuberger will be the intelligence agency’s first director for cybersecurity, a decision NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone is expected to make public Tuesday in New York City at the International Conference on Cyber Security. The directorate is slated to be operational Oct. 1 of this year, the spokesperson said. The move is intended to allow the NSA  — which is part of the U.S. military — to better provide information gleaned from signals intelligence to agencies and the private sector in order to protect national critical infrastructure, an NSA spokesperson said. “It’s a major organization that unifies our foreign intelligence and our cyberdefense mission, and it’s charged with preventing and eradicating threats to national security systems and the defense industrial base,” the official told CyberScoop. Civilian agencies — such as the Department of […]

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