The new cybersecurity office: Justice Department’s Cyber-Digital Task Force
Cyber Digital Task Force Goals:
- canvass the many ways that the Department is combatting the global cyber threat
- identify how federal law enforcement can more effectively accomplish its mission
Task Force members:
- CHAIR: senior Department official appointed by the Deputy Attorney General
- Department’s Criminal Division
- National Security Division
- United States Attorney’s Office community
- Office of Legal Policy
- Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- ATF
- FBI
- DEA
- U.S. Marshals Service
Report to be issued by June 2018 with a focus on these cyber issues:
- Election Hackers. election interference
- Grid Hackers. interfere with our critical infrastructure
- Fake News. use of the Internet to spread violent ideologies and to recruit followers
- Identity hackers. mass theft of corporate, governmental, and private information
- High level encryption. technology to avoid or frustrate law enforcement
- Viruses, ransomware et. al. mass exploitation of computers and other digital devices to attack American citizens and businesses
Department of Justice | Attorney General Sessions Announces New Cybersecurity Task Force