George LittleGeorge Little, former CIA and Pentagon spokesperson, will join Brunswick Group next month to head its corporate data and privacy practice.

Prior to signing on at the Defense Dept. in July 2011 as press secretary and PA chief, Little held the PA director slot at the Central Intelligence Agency.

As chief spokesperson, he provided counsel to the CIA director and leadership team, coordinated internal communications and did outreach to the American public.

From `05 to `07, Little worked in the National Counterterrorism Center's directorate of operational planning, where he gauged the US government response to Al Qaeda and other terror organizations.

Little has been "front and center" for decades in dealing with the challenges presented by cybersecurity, privacy and Big Data, according to Brunswick CEO Susan Gilchrist.

Brunswick has bolstered its cyber-offering through the addition of the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman to its Washington office.

At the WSJ since `2007, she covered the intelligence, terrorism, cybersecurity and surveillance beats.

Earlier, Gorman covered intelligence, justice and homeland security issues at the Baltimore Sun and National Journal.

She began her career as a research associate at the Washington Post.