The CIA will reorganize to increase its focus on cybersecurity
The CIA is planning one of the largest reorganizations in the agency’s history, The Washington Post reports. CIA director John Brennan unveiled the plans in a press briefing today, saying the agency will focus more on cybersecurity issues and digital espionage. In addition to undergoing a massive structural overhaul, the CIA will create a new “Directorate of Digital Innovation” to track advances and threats in cyberspace.
“Our ability to carry out our responsibilities for human intelligence and national security responsibilities has become more challenging,” Brennan said. “And so what we need to do as an agency is make sure we’re able to understand all of the aspects of that digital environment.”
It’s an attempt to “cover the entire…
Source:: The Verge
