US to Create New Federal Cybersecurity Agency

The United States is creating a new cybersecurity agency to sniff out cyber-threats and centralize threat intelligence for use by existing federal agencies.
 
The White House counter-terrorism coordinator, Lisa Monaco, will officially announce the new center.
 
While the National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA all have cyber practices and departments, the new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), true to its name, will be an "intelligence center that will 'connect the dots' between various cyber-threats to the nation so that relevant departments and agencies are aware of these threats in as close to real time as possible," a senior Obama administration official told Reuters.
 
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