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Clapper Announces Cyber Threat Integration Center Leadership

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

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Clapper Announces Cyber Threat Integration Center Leadership

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James Clapper, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), today announced the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center’s (CTIIC) leadership of Tonya Ugoretz as director, Maurice Bland as deputy director, and Thomas Donahue as research director.Originally established in a presidential memorandum in February 2015, the CTIIC is meant to fuse intelligence and “connect the dots” efforts regarding malicious foreign cyber threats to the United States and incidents affecting U.S. national interests (Defense Daily, Feb. 26, 2015). The CTIIC’s goal is to…

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