National Intelligence Strategy Urges Better Understanding of Adversarial Leadership

Addressing state and nonstate actors engaged in malicious cyber activities is the fourth in a list of seven mission objectives Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats outlined Tuesday in the administration's national intelligence strategy. The objective calls for understanding adversarial leadership plans, intentions, capabilities and operations. It includes expansion of “tailored production and appropriate dissemination and release of actionable cyber threat intelligence” and expanding abilities to “enable diplomatic, information, military, economic, financial, intelligence, and law enforcement plans and operations” to deter and counter bad actors.