The FBI named Andrew McCabe, a long time terrorism investigator, to its top national security post.

The Central Intelligence Agency will begin recalling furloughed civilian workers needed to carry out the spy agency’s core missions today, according to CIA Director John Brennan. He also remarked that keeping staffing at its current dramatically reduced level “would pose a threat to the safety of human life and the protection of property.”

Process improvements, program changes, establishment of metrics and funding requests become more strategic when built on a foundation of intelligence.

Cyber attacks originating in China have been discovered to spy on economic efforts at U.S. businesses, especially those in finance, technology and aerospace.

IBM is looking at using big data analysis to enhance corporate and homeland security, and detect and prevent cyber attacks.

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Forget Ipads, Facebook and even the latest video game, Call of Duty-Black Ops, which sold $300 million plus in its first day, as hot companies and can’t lose businesses. They have nothing on cyber crime. At the recent Security 500 Conference, Tom Mahlik, former Section Chief for the FBI’s Domain Section Counter Intelligence Division, pointed out that not only are U.S. businesses and government agencies losing north of one trillion dollars from cyber crime globally (yes, about 8 percent of the U.S. economy); but that most victims are not aware of it and do little to defend against it.