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Analysis: FBI Heads New Cyber Task Force

Shaun Waterman writes for UPI:

Last summer the FBI quietly established a special working group with U.S. intelligence and other agencies to identify and respond to cyber threats against the United States.

The group, called the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, now has "several dozen" personnel working together at an undisclosed location in the Washington area, according to the man in charge, Shawn Henry, the bureau's deputy assistant director in charge of its cyber division.

In an interview with United Press International, Henry was tight-lipped about the task force's makeup, saying only that it involved "several intelligence, law-enforcement and other agencies from across the U.S. government."

Documents released earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security said that the task force was being expanded "to include representation from the U.S. Secret Service and several other federal agencies."

posted by Fergie @ 4/21/2008 01:00:00 PM