The National Security Agency has launched its Cybersecurity Directorate, to bring the agency’s foreign intelligence and cyberdefense missions together. The new directorate will focus initially on the defense industrial base and the weapon’s security improvement, the agency said, calling it an effort to “unify as a nation against our threats.”
In July, NSA Director General Paul Nakasone tapped Anne Neuberger, who has been leading the NSA’s “Russia Small Group,” a joint NSA-Cyber Command task force to combat Russian election interference, to head the new cybersecurity arm.
The NSA has had a cyberdefense organization for decades, but what’s new is putting together threat detection, cyberdefense, and future technologies personnel under one roof, to more closely align its offensive and defensive operations.