Combating Threats In The Cyber World: FBI Director On Outsmarting Terrorists, Hackers And Spies

Robert Mueller, III, the director of the FBI (seen in the above official FBI photo), addressed the RSA Cyber Security Conference in San Francisco on March 1st.

"Terrorism remains the FBI's top priority," Mueller told the conference attendees. "But in the not too distant future , we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the number one threat to the country."

You can read the rest of of Mueller's speech via the link below to the FBI's web site:

http://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/combating-threats-in-the-cyber-world-outsmarting-terrorists-hackers-and-spies?utm_campaign=email-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=executive-speeches&utm_content=75784

You can also read my two-part piece on the FBI's Infragard program via the below links:

http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/16739399-1.html

http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/16739400-1.html

A couple of years back I covered the opening of the International Spy Museum's Weapons of Mass Disruption Gallery for Counterterrorism magazine.

In the audience were a virtual who's who of modern intelligence history, including several former CIA directors, a former FBI director, a former British MI5 chief, and a former KGB general.

You can read the piece via the below links: 

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