NSA Forms Cybersecurity Directorate Under More Assertive U.S. Effort (wsj.com) 24
The National Security Agency will create a cybersecurity directorate later this year as part of a wider effort to align the agency's offensive and defensive operations more closely, U.S. officials said. From a report: Anne Neuberger has been tapped to lead the new directorate, slated to become operational Oct. 1. The creation of the directorate and selection of Ms. Neuberger come during a broader fusion of NSA's offensive and defensive portfolios. The integration has been under way for several years but has expanded under Gen. Paul Nakasone, who has led the NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command since May 2018. The Trump administration has sought to be more aggressive and the NSA has adopted a strategy of "persistent engagement" in cyberspace against foreign adversaries including Russia, China and Iran. Much of those efforts, which are led offensively by Cyber Command but supported by intelligence collected by NSA, have focused on deterring election interference after Moscow, according to former special counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S. intelligence community, meddled in the 2016 presidential vote to boost the candidacy of Donald Trump. Russia has denied the allegations. Ms. Neuberger, 43 years old, is expected to be named formally to her new post Tuesday during a speech by Gen. Nakasone at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. He is expected to provide public details on the cybersecurity directorate for the first time.
If this is the first post you see (Score:1)
it's only because the real first post was censored by the NSA.
One more satrap (Score:1)
Well, there goes our freedom. No, I'm neither a US citizen nor a US resident nor was I talking about you lot. I was talking the rest of us. The 95%.
Huh? (Score:1)
Trump supporters all over the internet, and especially this site have told me, without evidence, that Trump stopped all the bad stuff the NSA ever did right quick. Purely by virtue that he's a Republican
They wouldn't have lied would they?
So what have they been doing since 1952? (Score:4, Interesting)
As the NSA was created in 1952 - that is 67 years ago, or two-thirds of a century - and as it has always been dedicated to signals intelligence, which is mostly electronic... what can explain the need to add a cybersecurity [sic] directorate [sic] to it now?
In plain language, if the NSA is only now being organized to provide systematic computer and network security, what has it been doing for the past 67 years?
I suspect that its focus has been rather more on spying on other people and messing up their computers and communications than in providing the security its name implies.
Re:So what have they been doing since 1952? (Score:4, Informative)
The NSA has been interested in cyber-security for a long time, at least since 2000 and probably before. Currently, they are tasked with certifying pieces of cyber kit the military uses. It's a long arduous process to get your kit certified at a high level. Lately though, they've been getting swamped by technology and the swift tech innovation in the private sector. Maybe this is an attempt to get back to the head of the class.
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Those fucking heads ain't got no class.
The NSA can't be trusted to guard their own goddam gates. America is getting hit with ransomware kits leaked out to the fucking world.
This new news is that the NSA is taking steps to keep itself relevant.
It won't work. The NSA uses contractors. See: Edward Snowden.
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The very best in the NSA tracking troop movements and trying to warn everyone in the US mil about something like the Tet Offensive.
Warn the US mil early and the Communists change up their communications methods?
Dont tell the US mil and ensure collect it stays productive? Keep on listening to all Communist communications 24/7 with no problems?
Cybersecurity is new busy work for contractors all over the USA. Making sure what was PRISM keeps working deep in big US
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The NSA created unicorn-derived genome splicing using CRISPR to infiltrate butterfly cocoons in trees and brushes around the world to weaponize that which used to be free.
Larry Landowski of Podunk, Arkansas, and former governor of that old white mountain just a little Southeast of Nome, published a report in the National Gaffer June issue of August 31,1842 that The NSA is headed by Janet Jonasfeer, a life-long member of the Fark party of Illinois.
That's the same publication [youtube.com] that released the unredacted vers
Now??1 (Score:1)
Somehow, I feel less secure.
Offensive and defensive portfolios? (Score:2)
One part of the NSA needs as much weak and junk crypto it can have accepted as a standard globally.
Too much new strong crypto and collect it all becomes difficult.
Another part of the NSA has to keep US communications extra secure.
Only the best new US crypto standards to keep the other nations out.
Then the CIA and its new GCHQ "5 eye" friends want to collect it all globally too.
Add in the new buddy system and its 2X the contractors trying to secure and co
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