Senior NSA Official Anne Neuberger on Cyber and Election Threats

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Anne Neuberger, Director of the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Directorate, details her trajectory from the agency's Chief Risk Officer, to the lead on election security in 2018, to the head of the agency's newly revamped cybersecurity mission. She tells Morell what lessons were learned about deterring Russia during the 2018 midterm elections and how the Cybersecurity Directorate seeks to help the public and private sectors defend themselves against foreign cyber threats. She also explains why the NSA is looking to shed some of its secretive reputation, and adjust to a rapidly changing technological environment.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel, brought
0:14.3	to you by Lockheed Martin.
0:16.3	Your mission is ours.
0:18.3	NSA is a foreign intelligence agency.
0:20.9	We're responsible for understanding a broad range of threats presented by foreign governments
0:26.4	to the United States.
0:27.9	One of those threats include our cyber threats, how nations may be using cyber to achieve
0:33.1	their national objectives.
0:34.8	That might be intellectual property theft, for example, to counter the Department of
0:38.3	Defense's legality by accelerating foreign government's ability to actually productize
0:44.2	particular R&D for a weapon that may be targeting critical infrastructure of a country
0:49.9	as part of threatening that country or as part of putting pressure on a given country.
0:57.4	How are we doing against the cyber threat?
1:00.4	Are we barely keeping up?
1:02.9	Are we catching up?
1:04.8	Are we getting ahead of the game?
1:07.2	Or is it always going to be hard for the defender?
1:10.5	Overall, technology is getting more secure.
1:14.3	Technology is built more securely today.
1:17.2	So the fundamental resilience is improving.
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