The FBI released a piece on their cyber action team.
Across
the globe, malicious cyber activity threatens public safety and national and
economic security. Criminals target organizations such as schools, hospitals,
power and utility companies, and other critical infrastructure entities that
serve communities.
As
the lead federal agency for investigating cyberattacks and intrusions, the FBI
developed a specialty group—the Cyber Action Team, or CAT—that can deploy
across the globe within hours to respond to major cyber threats and attacks
against these critical services.
Composed
of about 65 members, CAT is an investigative rapid response fly team that
leverages special agents, computer scientists, intelligence analysts, and
information technology specialists from across FBI field offices and
Headquarters.
"We
respond onsite to victims who may include national government entities, private
companies, or even sometimes foreign partner networks that have been
compromised by an adversary," said Scott Ledford, head of the Cyber Action
Team and the Advanced Digital Forensics Team. "Our job is to help conduct
the investigation—we collect digital evidence and locate, identify, and reverse
engineer malware. We also help the victim understand when they were compromised
and how, writing a timeline and a narrative of that intrusion with the ultimate
goal of identifying who is responsible, attributing that attack."
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can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
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