directorate

If anyone is curious email addresses are divided up based on the directorate you are in.

The Technical Director of the NSA Information Assurance Directorate gave a less sinister explanation for this in a keynote talk[1].

You are encouraged to have relationships within the community, but not necessarily at the same agency or within the same directorate.

I'm aware of the stuff they are pulling to escape the Enforcement Directorate & foreign investment related laws.

CIA was founded as the intelligence directorate beholden primarily to the executive branch.

Welcome to The Next Wave, a quarterly publication of the National Security Agency's Research Directorate to disseminate technical advancements and research activities in telecommunications and information technologies.

I couldn't find anything on it; one can only surmise it is something within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (probably something boring, despite the mystique).

Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

As an aside, I worked in a directorate, and the director of said directorate (who worked at amazon before us) told a story every so often of meetings he would be invited to, where the amazon UI team would agonize over specific pixel placements of text and images on the amazon website.

The scary part is that with the recent restructuring of the internet law, the new telecommunications communications directorate (TIB, yeah kinda redundant) is supposed to be starting deep packet inspection, which is rumored to be the reason why the internet has been slower recently...

Livermore may be fundamentally a nuclear security/weapons lab, but they also morphed into a HPC and biotechnology lab, while I worked in more of their general energy research directorate, which covers everything from hydraulic fracturing and carbon sequestration, to novel enzymes for breaking down free methane.

"Directorate of Terrorist Identities (DTI)" sounds like something right out of a dystopian novel.

> "director of the NSA's defensive Information Assurance Directorate" Now how many of you think dividing the NSA into defensive and offensive parts will do anything to restore trust?

Try clicking on the "About IA at NSA" link and you'll find out what NSA means by "Information Assurance": > NSA's Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) protects and defends National Security Information and Information Systems, in accordance with National Security Directive 42.

The authors of the 2008 paper on the protocol were Margaret Salter, technical director of the NSA's defensive Information Assurance Directorate, and an outside expert named Eric Rescorla." Given Rescorla involvement with the TLS standard and Mozilla it's concerning that he declined to comment on this.

One of the few, good things that come from NSA's Information Assurance Directorate.