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Memo Establishes Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

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Memo Establishes Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center

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President Obama officially directed the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to establish the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) in a memorandum on Wednesday.Announced earlier this month, the CTIIC is to be a national intelligence center focused on “connecting the dots” with malicious foreign cyber threats to the United States and incidents affecting U.S. national interests. It was originally noted as analogous to the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) (Defense Daily, Feb. 10).“The Administration is applying some of the hard-won…

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