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The traditional counterintelligence and cyber threats posed to the United States by nation-state and cyber-criminal actors is at an unprecedented level. Our nation state adversaries and criminal cyber enterprises routinely target United States-based companies, academic institutions, and various other organizations for their own gain. These gains are for the purpose of economic and political advantages and come in the form of Intellectual Property theft, surreptitious collection of policy positions, and financial extortion. But, how (and why) do our adversaries select their United States-based targets and how effective are our adversaries at accomplishing their strategic objectives? In understanding how our adversaries select their targets, we can begin to understand our adversaries’ strategic intent. In this course, you will learn not only about these threats and how they manifest in the United States – both at the strategic and tactical level – but also how the Intelligence Community understands the strategic intent of our adversaries and combats their actions in our country. Co-taught by Alan Kohler and Bryan Vorndran