Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 80, No. 41 

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 

Title 3— 

The President 

Memorandum of February 25, 2015 

Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration 

Center 

Memorandum for the Secretary of State[,] the Secretary of Defense[,] the 

Secretary of the Treasury[,] the Secretary of Commerce[,] the Attorney 

General[,] the Secretary of Homeland Security[,] the Director of National 

Intelligence[,] the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff[,] the Director of 

the Central Intelligence Agency[,] the Director of the Federal Bureau of 

Investigation[, and] the Director of the National Security Agency 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct as follows: 

Section 1. Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. 

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) shall establish a Cyber Threat 

Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). Executive departments and agencies 

(agencies) shall support the DNI’s efforts to establish the CTIIC, including 

by providing, as appropriate, personnel and resources needed for the CTIIC 

to reach full operating capability by the end of fiscal year 2016. 

Sec. 2. Responsibilities of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. 

The CTIIC shall: 

(a) provide integrated all-source analysis of intelligence related to foreign 

cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests; 

(b) support the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration 

Center, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, U.S. Cyber Command, and other relevant United States Government entities by providing 

access to intelligence necessary to carry out their respective missions; 

(c) oversee the development and implementation of intelligence sharing 

capabilities (including systems, programs, policies, and standards) to enhance 

shared situational awareness of intelligence related to foreign cyber threats 

or related to cyber incidents affecting U.S. national interests among the 

organizations referenced in subsection (b) of this section; 

(d) ensure that indicators of malicious cyber activity and, as appropriate, 

related threat reporting contained in intelligence channels are downgraded 

to the lowest classification possible for distribution to both United States 

Government and U.S. private sector entities through the mechanism described 

in section 4 of Executive Order 13636 of February 12, 2013 (Improving 

Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity); and 

(e) facilitate and support interagency efforts to develop and implement 

coordinated plans to counter foreign cyber threats to U.S. national interests 

using all instruments of national power, including diplomatic, economic, 

military, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement activities. 

Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Agencies shall provide the CTIIC with all intelligence related to foreign cyber threats or related to cyber incidents affecting 

U.S. national interests, subject to applicable law and policy. The CTIIC 

shall access, assess, use, retain, and disseminate such information, in a 

manner that protects privacy and civil liberties and is consistent with applicable law, Executive Orders, Presidential directives, and guidelines, such as 

guidelines established under section 102A(b) of the National Security Act 

of 1947, as amended, Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981 (United 


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28; and that is consistent with the need to protect sources and methods. 

(b) Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney 

General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Central 

Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

and the Director of the National Security Agency shall provide a status 

report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the 

Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism on 

the establishment of the CTIIC. This report shall further refine the CTIIC’s 

mission, roles, and responsibilities, consistent with this memorandum, ensuring that those roles and responsibilities are appropriately aligned with other 

Presidential policies as well as existing policy coordination mechanisms. 

Sec. 4. Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections. Agencies providing information 

to the CTIIC shall ensure that privacy and civil liberties protections are 

provided in the course of implementing this memorandum. Such protections 

shall be based upon the Fair Information Practice Principles or other privacy 

and civil liberties policies, principles, and frameworks as they apply to 

each agency’s activities. 

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or 

the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable 

law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right 

or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by 

any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, 

its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 

(d) The DNI is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum 

in the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, February 25, 2015 

[FR Doc. 2015–04443 

Filed 3–2–15; 8:45 am] 

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