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Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 00:33:22 CDT

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http://fcw.com/articles/2009/09/15/web-nis-cybersecurity.aspx

By Ben Bain
FCW.com
Sept 15, 2009

Enhancing cybersecurity is a mission objective for intelligence agencies
during the next four years, according to an unclassified version of the
2009 National Intelligence Strategy released today.

The NIS, from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, lays
out what intelligence agencies hope to accomplish over the next four
years through mission objectives, and how the agencies plan to do so
with enterprise objectives.

Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told reporters
today that the country has to be aggressive in protecting its own
secrets and stealing those of other nations. Throughout the world, he
said, "information is moving to networks and that'where you have to go
to learn what other countries and other groups are up to, and that's
what you have to be able to protect in order to be able to do your own
work."

China and Russia in particular are very aggressive in the cyber world,
Blair added.

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