The last couple of years has been characterized by the raise of state-sponsored cyber attacks, governments have increased cyber capabilities to defend their critical infrastructures from offensive originated in the cyberspace but they also improved tactics to offend and spy on foreign government networks.
Governments and private business of countries such as US, Japan and UK have been constantly hit by cyber attacks for sabotage or cyber espionage, for this reason the US Department of Justice has decided to take the field persecuting criminals.
Destroying an American computer system or stealing data from a defense contractor may be considered an offense and therefore punishable by law enforcement despite it set in the cyber space.
To date the responsibility to prevent and respond to cyber attacks was assigned to dedicated groups within DoD, Department of Homeland Security or National Security Agency.
The Justice Department has recently started a multifaceted initiative under its division named NSCS (National Security Cyber Specialist) training more than 100 prosecutors that will be used as support for various agencies such as NSA.
John Carlin, the principal deputy assistant Attorney General in Justice’s national security division said:
“NSA, we have some oversight function on them but they are our client when we go in front of the foreign intelligence surveillance court,” .
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