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July 23, 2019 04:45 pm

NSA Forms Cybersecurity Directorate Under More Assertive U.S. Effort

The National Security Agency will create a cybersecurity directorate later this year as part of a wider effort to align the agency's offensive and defensive operations more closely, U.S. officials said. From a report: Anne Neuberger has been tapped to lead the new directorate, slated to become operational Oct. 1. The creation of the directorate and selection of Ms. Neuberger come during a broader fusion of NSA's offensive and defensive portfolios. The integration has been under way for several years but has expanded under Gen. Paul Nakasone, who has led the NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command since May 2018. The Trump administration has sought to be more aggressive and the NSA has adopted a strategy of "persistent engagement" in cyberspace against foreign adversaries including Russia, China and Iran. Much of those efforts, which are led offensively by Cyber Command but supported by intelligence collected by NSA, have focused on deterring election interference after Moscow, according to former special counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S. intelligence community, meddled in the 2016 presidential vote to boost the candidacy of Donald Trump. Russia has denied the allegations. Ms. Neuberger, 43 years old, is expected to be named formally to her new post Tuesday during a speech by Gen. Nakasone at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. He is expected to provide public details on the cybersecurity directorate for the first time.

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