Cybersecurity is a rapidly evolving and changing landscape that is difficult for anyone to keep up with, let alone the already over-stretched justice professional. The numbers involved in the all-too-frequent announcements about hacking and breaches are staggering.
Consider this: The cost of cybercrime worldwide will reach $2 trillion by 2019, a massive increase from the 2015 $500 billion costs. However, experts feel this might be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to calculating the real costs of cybercrime. Experts from the World Economic Forum say that a significant portion of cybercrime goes undetected, particularly in the case of industrial espionage and proprietary secrets.
To add to this, more than 29 million records that were recorded stolen or exposed in 858 publicized breaches from across all industry sectors in 2016 – a 38 percent increase in cybersecurity incidents according to IDG. Each breach cost on average more than $7 million in the US – or $220 per record. While the statistics on cybercrime are mindboggling, there are very real ways law enforcement and justice professionals can arm themselves to fight the war on cybercrime, and the first step is to become informed.
Join webinar host Stacey A. Wright for the Justice Clearinghouse half-yearly update on:
- The changing and emerging cyber threats local and regional government law enforcement organizations should be aware of;
- Profiling cybercriminals;
- The tactics this unique type of criminal uses; and
- What law enforcement officers need to know to combat these perpetrators and protect their own organizations.
Presenter:
Stacey A. Wright is the Senior Intel Program Manager at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), where she runs the Intel Team for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). The Intel Team focuses on providing strategic, operational, and tactical cyber threat intelligence on state, local, tribal, and territorial government cyber issues, and is dedicated to providing comprehensive, actionable intelligence analysis.
Prior to her employment at CIS, Stacey was the Cyber Intelligence Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Albany, New York Division, where she was responsible for coordinating the local cyber intelligence program, and served as the FBI's liaison to MS-ISAC.
Stacey began her career as an Information Systems Specialist for a city's Emergency Communications and Fire Departments. She received her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University in 2000, and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 2005. She is a formally trained Intelligence Analyst, a national speaker on cybercrime. In addition to her work at CIS, Stacey teaches two graduate cybersecurity and threat intelligence classes at the State University of New York.