Rethinking The Cybersecurity Challenge From An Intelligence Community Perspective

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines was interviewed by Michele Flournoy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at WestExec Advisors and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, on the first day of the RSA Conference 2022. As cyber challenges and malign actors proliferate, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is committed to protecting the nation by working with industry and international partners to rethink how we collaborate and design networks as well as the cybersecurity that protects them. Here are a few key takeaways from DNI Haines' remarks:

1. Cybersecurity Highlights Tensions with Key Distinctions in Our World

Cybersecurity highlights tensions between the IC's different rules for domestic versus foreign collections. We need to bring together a threat picture that looks across the foreign/domestic threat space to collect on foreign adversaries who are operating in the U.S.