Counterintelligence

NEW COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRATEGY: FOCUS ON CYBER

A new national counterintelligence strategy aims to learn from the recent Office of Personnel Management hack, attributed to state-backed Chinese actors, which compromised the personal information of 22 million current, past and future federal employees and contractors.

The 2016 strategy, published this week, broadly outlines a plan for detecting, mitigating and preventing such threats, both from "foreign intelligence entities" and from malicious employees.

“As the recent cyberintrusion against the Office of Personnel Management illustrated, even federal agencies that hold sensitive but not classified data are at increased risk of being targeted by foreign adversaries," said a statement signed by President Barack Obama at the top of the DNI document.