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Clapper Says Cyber Is Top National Threat Over Terrorism

Clapper Says Cyber Is Top National Threat Over Terrorism
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Photo: ODNI.

James Clapper, the Director for National Intelligence (DNI), named cyber as the greatest threat to national security starting in 2013, he said during a speech on Jan. 29.“A lot of people find this surprising in our post-9/11 world, but in 2013, ‘cyber’ bumped ‘terrorism’ out of the top spot on our list of national threats. And cyber has led our report every year since then,” Clapper said during a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Cyber Lecture Series.Clapper highlighted the…

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