The paper by James Austin, NATO CCDCOE Operations Branch Researcher and Australian Defence Liaison Officer, is part of Proceedings of NIU’s Intelligence Studies Summit 2025 aimed to provide a collegial forum for academics and intelligence practitioners to share their research and discuss the intelligence studies discipline and intelligence education.
Using the perspective of cyber overlapping all intelligence domains, research conducted in the CCDCOE Maritime Cyber Threat Intelligence project and the development of the CCDCOE CyINT course, the paper explores if cyber intelligence is or should be an intelligence discipline. Reviewing recent cyber events and the digitisation of the maritime domain it demonstrates CyINT is a requirement either way, and this premise is further established from the process and observations obtained in the development of the CCDCOE CyINT course. Lastly the research considers and applies the learnings for guidance on the future of CyINT.
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