Is Cyber Crime Really the FBI's No. 3 Priority?

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Brian Krebs:

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that its No. 3 priority is
protecting the United States "against cyber-based attacks and
high-technology crimes." Given the increasing pervasiveness and costs
associated with such crime, FBI Director Robert Mueller should be commended
for giving anti-cyber crime investigations such high status, second only to
terrorism and espionage/counter intelligence investigations.

But according to an analysis by Security Fix, cyber crime remains a distant
third priority for the federal law enforcement agency, at least in terms of
resources applied to the problem.

That assessment is based on information from the Justice Department itself,
based on a reading of a 203-page document [.pdf] justifying its fiscal year
2008 budget request to Congress.

The cyber portion of the 2008 request includes a request for $258.5 million
in funding for some 659 field agents, a 1.5 percent increase over 2007
levels. That's 659 out of a total of 11,868 FBI agents nationwide, which
would mean the FBI is on track to dedicate roughly 5.5 percent of its
agents to cyber crime investigations. But as we'll see later, the true
number may actually be lower.

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Much more:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/is_cyber_crime_a_distant
_3rd_p.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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