Digital Technologies - Essay Example

According to Clapper, the U.S. is currently undergoing a major change due to its important infrastructure; personal lives, economy, and even basic understanding of—and interaction with—the world are becoming more interconnected with digital technologies and the Internet. Moreover, the world is applying digital technologies faster than its ability to comprehend the security repercussions as well as alleviate potential risks. In my opinion, the U.S. intelligence community should focus on all the potential as well as already known non-traditional threats; as intelligence analysts cannot afford to overlook any non- traditional threat sources in the face of rapid globalization and ever evolving security threat sources.

Bibliography http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/130312/clapper.pdf In the United States, it is estimated, that there are 30 million surveillance cameras, which generate over 4 billion hours of footage each week. Nonetheless, that is only an estimate; the numbers are still enormously high. With unmatched audio surveillance capabilities coupled with exceptionally precise as well as accessible video resources and seemingly endless intelligence gathering, analyzing, as well as storing efficiency, I feel that the IC has the infrastructure as well as resources available to give the equivalent amount of attention to each non-traditional threat identified.

The evidence so far is compelling and I agree that the intelligence community (IC) has the ability and all available resources to afford equal concentration to the non-traditional threats. Bibliography The Next Privacy Battle: Cameras that watch your every move. Contributor: Tarun Wadhwa. accessed 0103 30 April 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/08/30/dear-republicans-beware-big-brother-is-watching-you/ About the Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC).

accessed 2317, April 29 2014. https://www.thecsiac.com/about/about-the-csiac Asal et al. suggests that in the face of bountiful literature related to the viewpoint of terrorists/non-state actors using (CBRN) chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons, only a small percentage of this literary work is both quantitative in nature as well as universal in scale. What is more it is only terror groups entrenched in alliances as well as found in authoritarian nation-states with somewhat strong ties to a globalized world, that are more liable to seek to stock pile or obtain CBRN weapons.

In light of this I concur that the United States cannot focus equal analysis on all non-traditional threats facing the American people. There has to be a level of prioritization in the intelligence that is gathered on these threats. After all, the United States cannot evenly divide its attention when there are numerous threats out there threatening the United States and the security of the American people. Bibliography Asal, Victor H, Gary A Ackerman, and Karl R Rethemeyer. "Connections Can Be Toxic: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit of CBRN Weapons.

" Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2012: 229-254. Russell, James A. "WMD Proliferation, Globalization, and International Security: Whither the Nexus and National Security?" Strategic Insights, Volume V, Issue 6, 2006.