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US Department of Justice slams 'unqualified' FBI cyber agents
A REPORT put out by the US Department of Justice highlights inadequacies in the FBI's ability to combat national cyber security threats, saying many special agents lack the basic expertise to do their jobs properly.
The DoJ said that of the 36 agents it interviewed that were handling national security related cyber investigations, only 64 per cent reported that they had the expertise to handle these types of cases.
The report said that the remaining 36 per cent of the field agents "lacked the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate these types of cases" and that five of them "did not think they were able or qualified to investigate national security intrusions effectively".
The DoJ said that forensic and analytical skills in the field offices it investigated were not good enough to support a national security intrusion investigation, which field agents said hindered their efforts to find those responsible.
It said, "One agent who had recently been assigned his first counterterrorism intrusion case said that he did not know how to investigate a national security intrusion case."
"He was concerned about is ability to perform the investigation, especially because he viewed it as a significant case."
There is a way for FBI agents to become experts in cyber investigations, which requires on-the-job training for five to seven years.
But problems have cropped up, such as the different technical expertise needed for national security cyber investigations, as opposed to that needed for other types of cyber crime. µ
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FBI is busy with innocent people like me and my family. They should appologize for their action, fix all their wrong doings on my family and aquaintances (at least what can be fixed) and focus on the right things.
For a brief on my experience with FBI on behalf of US corporation Xilinx
http://richardjohnfpga.blogspot.com/
Hey FBI, why don't you hire Anonymous and Goatse? At least they have proven that they know what to look for, and the capability to adapt in an ever changing environment. And on the plus side, it keeps them out of jail, and on the -right- side of the courtroom.
Well the FBI has once less scumbag terrorist to deal with now and that's a good thing.
It's call paying taxes. I pay taxes so my government pays for my healthcare, school and what not. You must be a lucky (I'm assuming) American with a good job with insurance you can afford. To bad a lot of Americans lost there jobs, with this recession. I just hope they don't get sick.
While the FBI may not be perfect I believe they are doing the best they can with the resources they have. No one can completely protect against thousands of unknown terrorists around the world.
Terroristm, hacking, piracy, I.D. theft, etc. are here to stay. Law enforcement has a monumental challenge and people should support them not attack them for their best efforts to deal with a world gone mad.
Please, Sept 2001 showed just how competent these people are. They had the opportunity to stop the Arabs, and didn't, over 3 thousand died, what more is their to say.
Wow you must be an illegal alien or live in a country where all of the health care providers don't get paid if your doctor's visit is FREE. That is so cool that the drug companies simply give away medications, seeing how everything is FREE. That takes an awful lot of charity workers to provide FREE health care, huh?
You really don't have a clue, do you?
I like how you blame Obama for not having $ for Education, medicare, social security or teaching. Not that i support or am against him. Not my country. But your country money problems started way before Obama.
Heck I bet your against "socialist" healthcare. Oh well... got a doctors appointment tomorrow. Which I don't have to pay a dime;-)
Yes, it would be ideal if the government could hire qualified people but that is highly unlikely since they usually will not pay comparable to private industry. The morons they hire for the patent office are evidence of that. They don't seem to know what the phrase "prior art" means.
Oh wait, no there is no money for education, medicare, social security or teaching the FBI how to fight cyber terrorism because Bama and friends have pissed all the money away on pork projects.
The FBI's primary mission is to get headlines for the FBI, so that the Director can point to them at budget-request time and say, "we need more money to fight this problem."
Competence in anything other than Public Relations (e.g., manipulating the Press) is not required.
When the US Government networks are normally considered the "Year-Round HackFest", I never realized that any of the FBI "cyber agents" were supposed to be qualified.
"There is a way for FBI agents to become experts in cyber investigations, which requires on-the-job training for five to seven years."
The technology changes every 2-3 years, so they will never be trained at that rate. Better off to hire people that know how.