The White House has ordered the Director of National Intelligence to establish a new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center – CTIIC, tasked with keeping track of cyber threats and incidents affecting national interests and keeping policy makers apprised of developments.
According to a fact sheet, the CTIIC will not be an operational center. That is, it won’t collect intelligence, manage incident response efforts, direct investigations, or replace other functions. Rather, it will support the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, and US Cyber Command.
The CTIIC will also assist relevant departments and agencies in their efforts to identify, investigate, and mitigate cyber threats. This latest step toward getting a handle on the vast and dizzying foreign cyber threat landscape takes a “whole of government” approach that aims to provide officials with a cross-agency view of foreign cyber threats, their severity, and potential attribution.
The center will provide analysis on foreign threats, support US government centers responsible for cybersecurity and network defense, and support counter-threat efforts.
