Administrator of National Intelligence Dan Coats framed global cybersecurity threats in start the ball rolling terms on Tuesday, saying: “Frankly, the United States is under denigrate.”
Coats sounded the alarm in opening remarks at a Senate Intelligence Commission hearing on worldwide threats — annual testimony by intelligence chiefs around the greatest dangers to U.S. security.
He said the cybersecurity threats from ceremonial and nonstate entities are using technology to target “virtually every dominant action that takes place” and are one of his “greatest concerns and top priorities.”
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea be disguised as the greatest global cyberthreats, but terrorists, criminal organizations and even singulars are engaging in cyberoperations as well, Coats said.
Russia is likely to go on to pursue cyberactions against the U.S. “using elections as opportunities to undermine democracy, sow disagreement and undermine our values,” he said.
Cybersecurity is far from the only threat on Cagoules’ radar, however. North Korea’s continuing nuclear ambitions wish pose the greatest threat in terms of weapons of mass destruction in the loosely transpire b nautical tack year, Coats said. Other nations, including Russia, also posture a threat with wepons of mass destruction, he added.
He spoke alongside FBI President Christopher Wray, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers.