Presidential Memorandum -- Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center

President Barack Obama directed the Director of National Intelligence to establish the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). The CTIIC will be a national intelligence center focused on “connecting the dots” regarding malicious foreign cyber threats to the nation and cyber incidents affecting US national interests, and on providing all-source analysis of threats to US policymakers.

The CTIIC will also assist relevant departments and agencies in their efforts to identify, investigate, and mitigate those threats. In creating the CTIIC, the Administration is applying some of the hard-won lessons from our counterterrorism efforts to augment that “whole-of-government” approach by providing policymakers with a cross-agency view of foreign cyber threats, their severity, and potential attribution. The CTIIC will not be an operational center. It will not collect intelligence, manage incident response efforts, direct investigations, or replace other functions currently performed by existing departments, agencies, or government cyber centers.