It's a great question.
Let me just say that I'm a neuroscientist by training. I finished my Ph.D. at Princeton and was studying animals and virtual reality to reverse-engineer how their brains work using laser beams. I was not really bred in the world of intelligence, but I found that understanding how the brain works is really helpful for understanding the intelligence process.
I now train analysts, who join the FBI or CIA, at Rutgers, where I teach advanced courses on threat analysis at the Miller Center for secure communities.
What I found in that process was that when it comes to what it is we do and how to create a kind of alert function on it, it really requires that we designate the category of threat that we're talking about in ways that give it a clear set of parameters.
Really, what we're looking at is not just cybersecurity. It's social cybersecurity. Social cybersecurity is really what we train in, and the threats that pertain to it are any threat that could possibly afflict a vulnerable community or democracy.
I can give you some examples from NCRI's research as to how wide-standing that could be. This could be computer-generated hoaxes and malicious information in the wakes of mass shootings. It could be Spanish alt-right networks glorifying crusader memes. It could be bot-driven gold rushes and inauthentic social media on crypto. All of these—