DOJ Report Suggests Direction For Addressing Cyber Threats

As many of you have no doubt seen, the Justice Department recently released the report of the Attorney General's Cyber Digital Task Force, a body the Attorney General had created in February. In the report, the Task Force, chaired by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, seeks to answer the question: "How is the Department responding to cyber threats?" On the off chance that you're not dying to read all 144 pages, we have provided a short summary and a couple of takeaways below.

The report focuses primarily on DOJ's efforts in the cyber realm, rather issues of cyber-crime in the larger world. Not surprisingly, it first turns its attention to what it calls "countering malign foreign influence operations," in other words attacks by foreign actors on American democratic institutions. Among other things, it notes the unprecedented nature of foreign interference in our 2016 elections, and the intelligence community's assessment that Russia views the upcoming