FBI puts its cyber strategy on paper
FBI publishes its first public cybersecurity strategy, a 17-page document with four pillars prioritizing disruption of cybercrime and nation-state hackers.
The FBI released its first-ever public cybersecurity strategy, a 17-page unclassified document outlining four pillars: imposing costs on adversaries, victim support, industry collaboration, and strengthening the bureau's digital capabilities. Cyber Division assistant director Brett Leatherman said the plan builds on the Trump administration's cybersecurity strategy, a recent executive order on countering digital criminals, and a memo enabling private-industry participation in disruptive operations, and promises a faster tempo of sequenced operations after 50 such actions since the start of 2025, including the Lumma malware takedown with Microsoft. No implementation plan or timeline exists yet; threat teams targeting China, Russia, and criminal gangs will develop classified sub-strategies.
- Four pillars: imposing costs, victim support, industry collaboration, internal capabilities
- 50 sequenced operations since 2025, including the Lumma takedown with Microsoft
- Strategy builds on Trump administration executive order and private-industry ops memo
- Threat teams to draft classified sub-strategies; no implementation timetable set
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3 min read at therecord.mediaThe first public cybersecurity strategy issued by the FBI "directs our teams, our field offices, our global presence" to align their efforts on countering malicious hackers and cybercrime groups, senior official Brett Leatherman says.
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