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Tonya Ugoretz is the Director for the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, a new intelligence entity designed to develop information sharing capabilities across intelligence networks and support coordination among cyber communications and investigation institutions in the U.S. Government. Before heading the CTIIC, Tonya Ugoretz was a career analyst for the FBI, first serving in the Counterterrorism Program before becoming the FBI's first intelligence analyst to serve as the FBI Director's Daily Intelligence Briefer. In 2010, Ms. Ugoretz served as the Chief Intelligence Officer, representing the FBI in joint-duty assignments with the National Intelligence Board, CIA CounterTerrorism Center, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's El Paso Intelligence Center.
Ms. Ugoretz was an Adjunct Associate Professor with Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, where she co-created and taught a course on Domestic Intelligence. She has served as an adjunct faculty member of the Center for Intelligence Training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, and as an elected member of the FBI's Intelligence Analyst Advisory Board. She has received the Director's Award for Exceptionally Meritorious Service from the National Counterterrorism Center and an Exceptional Performance Award from the CIA.
Ms. Ugoretz received her M.A. from Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations in 2001. She joined the Bureau as a two-year Presidential Management Fellow. She was a founding member of the Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, and was honored as the guest speaker for the Graduate Commencement and Hooding Ceremony in May of 2016.
April 18, 2016
Journal: I wanted to start, from a broader perspective, by asking about changes intelligence acquisition has experienced in the past fifteen years. You began your career as an analyst in the months after 9/11. How has data-gathering shifted in the intelligence community? Does the Internet play a role in helping and/or hindering the task of gathering intelligence? What constraints has the intelligence community suffered during this particularly explosive era for information-does being one of the "good guys" mean being at a constant disadvantage?
Tonya Ugoretz: It's easy to use superlatives about the rate and degree of change in technology in the last 30 years or so. And it's tempting to look back with nostalgia at a simpler time, before satellites and computers, when information existed in more...