{"id":4352,"date":"2015-10-26T21:51:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T03:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T03:51:56","slug":"the-cia-announced-their-ddi-program-an-in-house-bureau-focused-on-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"The CIA announced their DDI program: an in-house bureau focused on tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

While going through my backlog of reading material, I found an article from FCW (The Business of Federal Technology) that pointed out the CIA has a “new” digital directorate that “brings together cyber, IT, and open source intel.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Called the Directorate for Digital Innovation (DDI), it’s an in-house bureau “devoted to giving officers around the world better IT tools to do traditional cloak-and-dagger work.”<\/p>\n

Bear in mind this is just the official<\/em> announcement of the CIA’s DDI program. This little baby has been running around for some time now and is just now announcing they’re ready to go outside and play.<\/p>\n

The CIA says their new info ops center is not “an alternative NSA” and is composed of three segments: “an open source center; a center for handling cyber threats and operations; and the agency\u2019s IT enterprise”.<\/p>\n

I’m sure the DDI is going to be an “active” bureau despite all the delicate phrasing in the article, but I really hope the inward-facing DDI is more than a glorified help desk and has some enforceable<\/em> executive tech behind it. By enforceable<\/em> executive tech, I mean getting agents up to date with modern security practices with the authority to make upgrades and training more than “suggestions” or optional “time-for-a-promotion” courses.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A: Grand poo-bah CIA Director John Brennan was OK with using AOL for his AGENCY EMAILS<\/a> and his AOL account got hacked by a script kiddie amateur. <\/a><\/p>\n

Yeah, there’s obviously some BIG changes that need to be made internally. From waaaay up high at that.<\/p>\n

Good luck DDI.<\/p>\n

The article on FCW can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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