President Obama's New Cyber Agency Puts Spies In Charge of Sharing Threat Tips With Agencies

The Obama Administration is creating a new agency intended to protect online privacy and secure sensitive data by combing through spies’ threat assessments and sharing them with other federal agencies. The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, or CTIIC (pronounced See-Tick), will sit within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

It will join a multitude of existing cyber information-sharing hubs -- including the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center; private sector information sharing and analysis centers; and DNI's own Information Sharing Environment. The distinction here seems to be a focus on distributing threat evaluations government-wide in near real-time.