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Stopping insider threats has become a unifying cybersecurity mission, particularly in the defense and intelligence communities. And for good reason. Typically, the words "insider threat" might conjured up the likeness of Edward Snowden. But the reality is much scarier, writes blogger Eddie Garcia.  

The United States' dependence on valuable space assets and the nation's critical need to maintain superiority in C4ISR disciplines have also made these fields somewhat of an Achilles' heel. The country had long held technological and capabilities advantages over the rest of the world. According to guest blogger Cyndi Thomas, those days are gone.

Five years after the Canadian government launched an official national cybersecurity strategy to combat the rise of online attacks, the country’s national police force announced Wednesday it is creating an investigative cyber crime unit to prioritize intelligence collection and technology capabilities.

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Leaders must start asking hard questions to extrapolate complicated solutions to phenomenon that increasingly influences, if not yet dominates, our lives. How does the intelligence community begin to make sense of the overwhelming need to safeguard the cyberspace? 

Securing the cyberspace will get worse before it gets any better, warned Adm. Michael Rogers, USN, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command. “The very technical foundation of the world we’ve created with the Internet of Things is going to exacerbate [security vulnerabilities], not make it easier.”