FBI's Top Cyber Official Discusses Threat

Описание: FBI.gov recently sat down with Shawn Henry to talk about the cyber threat and his FBI career. More at: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/...

Transcript: In the past, in the physical world when somebody would rob a bank, the pool of suspects is limited to the number of people in the general vicinity of that bank.

Today when a bank is robbed digitally, virtually, although it is very real for the victims, the money is actually gone; the pool of suspects is limited to the number of people on the face of the earth that have a laptop and an internet connection, because anybody with an internet connection potentially can attack any other computer that's tied to the network. So the barrier of entry is relatively low.

I think that going forward, this is not going away. I mean, we are not backing away from the internet. We are not going to change technology.

As technology increases, this challenge becomes greater so when I started the threat was really to networks--mostly corporate networks--but since that time we moved into laptops and wireless laptops and then more recently into personal devices, whether it be smart phones, blackberries -- those sorts are devices that allow access to the network anytime, everywhere. More at: http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/fbis-t...