National Convergence Strategy Essay

The National Counterintelligence Strategy
The National Counterintelligence Strategy from the NCIX gives the guidance needed in order to ensure the direction of CI is going the way it should. I think this may be one of the most important objectives on the strategic strategy. But one of the areas that I think it may be lacking is the ability to determine the potential for insider threats that have or had ties to extremist groups. This may be possible for any terror groups or any criminal element that may want intelligence. This is also another key issue, being able to take the fight to the enemy is one that would be necessary to know what the enemy knows. Also in the Counterintelligence Ten Commandments, the agency that controls the street controls the area, meaning the …show more content…
One of the other options in having more aggressive operation is the ability to disrupt operations being conducted in our IC, as well as determine what the enemy wants to know. If the CI community is able to determine what the enemy wants to know then the IC can then be strengthened where there are issues. With the new evolutions of technology, espionage may not be conducted in some back alley in Moscow or Tehran, but in a blog or forum where OPSEC has been compromised. With the integration of Cyber in the CI community the ability to cover another avenue of approach, as well as give another ability to conduct active operations against the enemies is a large advantage. The defensive measures I can surmise would be helpful in many ways, but also the ability to conduct offensive operations in order to gain intelligence on the enemy would be invaluable in terms of determining their intelligence. Also being able to conduct cyber espionage would be a great advantage than that of having to gain a penetrate agent. Trade Secrets are another issue in the CI, the ability for foreign services to gain access to trade secrets in the United States could damage the