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CIA Deputy for Digital Innovation Talks Mission, Partnerships and Espionage Challenges

CIA Deputy for Digital Innovation Talks Mission, Partnerships and Espionage Challenges

CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank said recently “the cyber forces and other threats that we confront across the digital landscape are formidable and they are changing the very nature of the intelligence business.” 

Ewbank, who spent much of her career with the Agency running overseas operations, noted at The Cipher Brief Threat Conference, not only how U.S. adversaries have upped their digital game, but also how the agency has been “grappling with how to manage the explosion in volume and variety of data fueled by technological change,” saying, “It has transformed the intelligence business in many of the same ways it's transformed the commercial marketplace and the global economy as a whole.

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