DNI official: Leaks won’t stop intelligence agencies’ digitization
The leaks of sensitive cyber tools from U.S. spy agencies in recent years will not impede the intelligence community’s push to adopt cloud computing and other hallmarks of a digitized world, according to a top intelligence official. “In a world that is more connected, I worry about security all the time,” Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, told CyberScoop, but “I’m not disproportionately worried about cloud security because I can see some real advantages to it.” “I think what’s nice about a more connected infrastructure is the ability to monitor” networks and detect threats, Gordon said. The U.S. intelligence community has suffered high-profile exposures of its hacking capabilities, including last year’s “Vault 7” episode, in which a former CIA employee allegedly leaked information on numerous U.S. government zero-day exploits, among other tools. In the wake of the leaks, U.S. intelligence agencies have continued to wrestle with how to […]
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