GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DNI Orders “Integrated Defense” of Intelligence Information

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Secrecy News

24March2011 6:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Director of National Intelligence is calling for the “integrated defense” of intelligence community (IC) information and systems to protect against unauthorized disclosures of intelligence sources and methods.

While every intelligence agency already has its own security procedures, a new Intelligence Community Directive (pdf) issued by the DNI would require a more coordinated and consistent approach, involving “unified courses of action to defend the IC information environment.”

“The IC information environment is an interconnected shared risk environment where the risk accepted by one IC element is effectively accepted by all,” the new Directive said.  Therefore, “integrated defense of the IC information environment is essential to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all information held by each IC element.” (read full report)

"GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE" is an intelligence briefing presented by Griffith Colson Intelligence Service, and provided to the public for informative purposes only. All subject matter is credited to it's source of origin, and is not intended to represent original content authored by GCIS, it's partners or affiliates. All opinions presented are those of the author, and not necessarily those of GCIS or it's partners.

GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: New Policing Strategies Creating Challenges

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: HS Today

11February2011 9:51amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Radical changes in methods, strategies and technologies of policing necessitate the forging of new relationships between police and communities, according to a new study by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), titled  The Changing Environment for Policing, 1985-2008.
 
“Not only are changes occurring in the environment that may affect the structure of policing but police themselves are in the process of changing the way they work,” the report explains, noting that the factors driving this are the threat of terrorism, intelligence- led policing and DNA analysis.
 
While these developments have helped drive a significant decrease in violent crime over the past two decades, according to the report, each has also transfered initiative in directing operations to specialists who collect and analyze information and away from both general-duties police and the public.
 
 “Ironically,” the report notes, “ these changes could undo the signature contribution of the 1980s — community policing. “
 
A focus on counterterrorism, for example, centralizes decision making, shifting it upward in police organizations and making it less transparent.
 
“In the aftermath of Sept. 11,”  the report says, “a new emphasis has been placed on the development of covert intelligence gathering, penetration and disruption. In the United States, the development of covert counterterrorism capacity has been unequally distributed, being more pronounced in larger police forces. Where it occurs, important questions arise about legal accountability as well as operational payoff.” (read full report)

 

 

"GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE" is an intelligence briefing presented by Griffith Colson Intelligence Service, and provided to the public for informative purposes only. All subject matter is credited to it's source of origin, and is not intended to represent original content authored by GCIS, it's advertisers or affiliates. All opinions presented are those of the author, and not necessarily those of GCIS or it's partners.