http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/government/229402636 By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek May 03, 2011 The FBI's field offices lack the skills and expertise that they require for investigating national cybersecurity intrusions, with many field offices facing a shortage of forensic investigators and intelligence analysts, as well as tactical intelligence for guiding investigations. Those are some of the top-level findings from a Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General audit of the FBI's computer intrusion investigation capabilities, released last week. The audit, started in 2008 as an assessment of the FBI's computer intrusion investigation capabilities, grew to encompass the bureau's ability to investigate national security computer intrusions by the audit's completion in 2010. The audit also assessed the effectiveness of the FBI-led, multi-agency task force known as the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). Created in 2008 when President Obama established the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, the task force's job is to coordinate intelligence and investigations into national cybersecurity intrusions across 18 intelligence and law enforcement agencies. For the report, auditors interviewed personnel at FBI headquarters, in 10 field offices, and at the NCIJTF. According to the audit, 36% of FBI of cyber agents thought they lacked the necessary IT expertise for handling national security intrusions, and five out of 36 agents interviewed told the auditor that they didn't think they were skilled enough to investigate national security intrusions. In addition, the audit found that sharing intelligence information between agencies could be challenging, with the reasons for withholding information not always being clear to all participants. Finally, it questioned the FBI's approach to rotating cyber personnel to new offices every three years. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Tue May 03 2011 - 22:41:57 PDT
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