The traditional boundary separating the technical aspects of cyber threats from physical threats has permanently collapsed. The digital and physical environments have become fully intertwined.  This presentation explores why treating cybersecurity as a mere technical issue confined to the IT department is a dangerous, obsolete strategy. Drawing from frontline experience in law-enforcement, counterterrorism, and national security, this presentation explores the dynamic, volatile and rapidly evolving hybrid threat environment facing law enforcement and security professionals where cyber operations, empowered by emerging technologies like advanced computing,  are a part of a multi-dimensional tool box used by foreign and domestic threat actors to carry out geopolitical aggression, acts of terrorism, attacks directed at high visibility events like the World Cup, and target law enforcement and government officials with violence. The presentation  will describe how as a Nation, we are at an inflection point and just as we learned after the attack of 9-11, public and private sector analytic and operational personnel can no longer operate within organizational and disciplinary stovepipes while adversaries exploit the gaps between our physical and technical silos. What applied to counter-terrorism now applies to cyber security and this presentation will also describe emerging strategies to dismantle these barriers, fusing technical defense directly into the daily fabric of law enforcement, national security, and homeland defense operations.