Transcript:
FBI at Cyber Conference
Shawn Henry, Assistant Director, Cyber Division:
I see the FBI's role primarily as threat mitigation--how do we highlight the biggest risks, the most significant threats, to our society, to our commerce, to our infrastructure and our way of life? And how do we develop methodologies and protocols to mitigate those threats?
We prioritize, look at three separate threat actors, essentially: foreign intelligence services, terrorist groups or sympathizers to jihadist organizations and philosophies, and criminal organized groups.
The sophistication and organization of all three of those groups has continued to increase. The continued development of IP-enabled devices is really stretching the boundaries of the perimeter, and there are just many more attack vectors for all three of those adversaries to try and access. So the problem continues to grow.
Thomas Ravenelle, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Cyber, San Francisco FBI:
Our biggest cyber threats come from the national security side of the house. It's no different from the major priorities of the FBI. Counterterrorism and counterintelligence are our greatest priorities and that's where we tend to focus.
J. Keith Mularski, Supervisotry Special Agent, National Cyber Forensics and Training:
I think the lessons that we've learned is the effectiveness of international relationships and partnerships, working together with our foreign law enforcement partners across the world to basically bring down the walls.
Shawn Henry:
We've got a very close working relationship with other government agencies, certainly the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and other agencies within the U.S. government to look at threats against the critical infrastructure.
We have very close partnerships with the private sector to look at threats to intellectual property that's maintained on their networks, to look at a lot of the R&D that's contained therein, and to try to alert them to what an adversary might be looking at to try and provide them with some situational awareness so they can better protect their networks.
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