Social media posts are as valuable as classified information in understanding cyber threats, according to Laura Galante, intelligence community cyber executive.
Ms. Galante leads the Cyber Threat Intelligence Center that has responsibility for gathering and analyzing intelligence on cyberattackers and hackers targeting government, business, and critical infrastructure such as power and water systems.
“Pieces on Twitter, details that come out of blogs, those can be just as critical as different types of classified or other sources in understanding what the picture is around a cyber event,” Ms. Galante said at a Cyber Initiatives Group event on Wednesday.