Prosecuting Cyberespionage - Justice’s New Strategy

The National Security Division of the Justice Department may be getting on the cyberspace attribution/retribution bandwagon — and in the process, reshaping US strategy for deterring cyberespionage.

First, they are creating a new liaison position in US Attorney offices across the country — the National Security Cybersecurity Specialist, or NSCS (rhymes with "discus meniscus" for you knee trauma buffs). Companies across the country are suffering from cyberespionage, much of it state-sponsored, and there is a need for cleared, cyber-smart prosecutors in each federal prosecutor's office who can work with local victims, not to mention the FBI, which already has specialists in each field office who deal with local victims of cyberespionage.