{"id":10656,"date":"2018-02-21T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/21\/how-will-the-justice-department-deter-cyber-attacks-to-start-another-task-force\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:36:07","slug":"how-will-the-justice-department-deter-cyber-attacks-to-start-another-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2018\/02\/21\/how-will-the-justice-department-deter-cyber-attacks-to-start-another-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"How will the Justice Department deter cyber attacks? To start, another task force."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of Justice is forming a Cyber-Digital Task Force to detect, deter and disrupt malicious cyber behavior through the department\u2019s law enforcement mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A department memo directing the establishment of the task force states the task force will also identify how federal law enforcement can more effectively accomplish its mission in cyberspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DoJ, specifically the National Security Division, has significantly ramped up its efforts in cyberspace within the last decade steeping agents and attorneys in the field to better understand the intricacies involved. Indictments of top nation and non-nation state hackers has been touted in the past as one of many tools in the U.S. arsenal of whole of nation cyber deterrence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memo also lays out a few of the most \u201cpressing cyber threats\u201d facing the nation, which include efforts to interfere with or disable critical infrastructure, efforts to interfere with elections, use of the internet to spread violent ideologies, theft of corporate, governmental and private information, use of technology to avoid or frustrate law enforcement such as masking criminal activity and mass exploitation of computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvaluating these threats and formulating a strategy to combat them should be among the Task Force\u2019s highest priority,\u201d the memo states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent report issued by the Council of Economic Advisers estimates that malicious cyber activity cost the U.S. economy between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\t