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Former FBI CIO Zal Azmi, CACI International Senior Vice President for Global Strategic Law Enforcement and National Just as spy agencies have intelligence analysts, the government needs to develop technically savvy cyber analysts as IT threats from foreign nations and criminal organizations grow, says a former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief information officer. "We're moving into a cyber warfare environment (and) if you look at the two domains (intelligence and IT), they're very similar," Zalmai Azmi, now senior vice president for global strategic law enforcement and national security at the IT services firm CACI International, said in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com. "The intelligence analyst relies on the number of information feeds they're getting from different intelligence agencies. They are drawing a common operational picture and then they decide how they're going to write a report and move it forward." Azmi told GovInfoSecurity.com's Eric Chabrow. "The same is true of cyber warfare.