In the backwash ofthe Sony Pictures hackthe Obama administration is to establish a new government agency which will “ battle the deepening terror from cyberattacks,”according to the Washington Post .
Thenewspaper explainsthat , after today , the president ’s counterterrorism chief will announce the fresh agency , which will be known as the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center . It will be sit on the National Counterterrorism Center , which was gear up up following the September 11th attacks — when the government was criticized for fail to divvy up effectively share and work on word .
After the recent Sony hack , the FBI , NSA and CIA all drew dissimilar conclusions . The CTIIC will instead acts as a centralized agency to bring together a cohesive response . The agency will ab initio be staff with 50 people , operate with a budget of $ 35 million a year . It will , the newspaper claims , not conduct any surveillance piece of work itself , instead work out with public and secret cooperator to detects potential threats .
It ’s not clear on the button how the governance will differentiate itself from other regime agencies , though . Indeed , former White House cybersecurity coordinator Melissa Hathaway said to the paper that “ we should not be creating more organizations and bureaucratism . We need to be forcing the existing organization to become more efficient — maintain them accountable . ”
Quite how effectual the government agency will prove remains to be see , then . But one affair is clear : the government is in spades taking digital war far more gravely than ever . [ Washington Post ]
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