Talking with Bill Evanina About Threats, Spies and Social Media

Posted: October 15th, 2018

By Bill Evanina

As the Former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), William “Bill” Evanina was responsible for leading and supporting the CI and security activities of the US Intelligence Community, the US Government, and US private sector entities at risk from intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries. Under NCSC, he oversaw national-level programs and activities such as the National Insider Threat Task Force; personnel security and background investigations; continuous evaluation; information technology protection standards and compliance; CI cyber operations; supply chain risk management; threat awareness to sectors of the US critical infrastructure; national-level damage assessments from espionage or unauthorized disclosures, CI mission management, and national CI and security training programs.

Bill Evanina is the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) – a part of the U.S. Intelligence Community that leads and supports the government’s counterintelligence and security efforts.

The NCSC tackles that mission in a number of ways, but a large part of their task is to interact with private sector entities at the greatest risk of being targeted by foreign spies. The office also works on Insider threats, overhauling the security clearance process, security at U.S. Embassies, and coordinating all double agent operations.

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