Posted on 12/10/2015 10:03:39 AM PST by Citizen Zed
The National Security Agency has significantly enhanced its capabilities for detecting cyber-threats in the two-plus years since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden pilfered and disclosed classified information. The multi-layered capabilities, which include user behavior analytics, now protect a private cloud that provides storage, computing and operational analytics to the intelligence community, CIO Greg Smithberger tells CIO.com.
"There are a number of initiatives we have underway there to really use a lot of our big data analytics, a lot of the technology we have developed for our foreign intelligence mission, as well as technology we've developed inside our Information Assurance Directorate," says Smithberger, who began his new job six months ago after serving in various operational foreign intelligence roles over the past 27 years. He says the NSA is using automated capabilities "to up our game" for detecting and responding to anomalies, including anything from external attacks to suspicious internal activity.
The NSA has taken it on the chin from the mainstream media and privacy advocates because several revelations by Snowden, who while working as an NSA contractor through Booz Allen in 2013 copied and began releasing documents detailing NSA secret programs that surveil communications in the U.S. and abroad. The documents shed new light about the government's monitoring of phone and email records to surveil terrorism suspects. The controversy is regularly stoked with new findings, including the New York Times revelation that the NSA augments the way it sifts through large amounts of digital data in pursuit of bad actors.
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Funny they can’t seem to stop, let alone foresee, any threats. Just like the CIA & the FBI.
Reddest flag: a black who converts to Islam. Red flag: convert to Islam.
If our government is so concerned with our safety and security, why are they importing mass murdering Muslim terrorists into our country? Why are they leaving our violent lawless borders wide open for millions, from God knows where to enter at will?
Brightest red flag: a leftist who converts to Islam. They are already willing to do harm, now they have an excuse.
Oh, they see threats alright.
Everywhere they look, Evil White Christians are threatening to end the dismemberment of babies who are simply un-persons, or trying to stop violent thugs from crossing into our land by erecting something silly called “borders”, and the worst thing of all is these EWC’s are even trying to curtail the number of Noble People in the Federal Government, who are after all born noble and deserving of other people’s property and labor!
These are terrible threats that the Noble Agencies of the Federal Government (ordained by Divine Right) must deal with.
Little things like a medieval death cult conducting a worldwide conquest really don’t count.
Ever notice how ALL the recent Islamic terrorists RENT the vehicles for the attack? Surely the FBI could notice that?
Has anybody told them it's not working.
Uh, what threats have they detected, I can point out several they missed.
Please don't talk about that. You'll damage their self-esteem. </s
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