If only 3 in 100,000 cyber-crimes are prosecuted, why not train cops to bring these crooks to justice once and for all, suggests think-tank veep

If only 3 in 100,000 cyber-crimes are prosecuted, why not train cops to bring these crooks to justice once and for all, suggests think-tank veep

'We are focusing on defending systems over identifying and pursuing the person behind the cyber-crime'


Enigma A plague of ignorance and misplaced priorities in government and law enforcement, from neighborhood cops all the way up to international bodies, is allowing cyber-crime to run rampant.


So says Mieke Eoyang, long-time US government policy adviser and veep of the national security program at Washington DC think tank Third Way. Speaking at the 2020 Enigma conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Eoyang made the case for allocating time and money to finding and snaring internet crooks, hauling them into court, and shutting down this criminality. In other words, proactively tackling criminals, rather than relying on fending off attacks.


After citing figures from Uncle Sam that show only three in 1,000 cyber-crimes are actually prosecuted – the actual ratio could be closer to three in 100,000 as the FBI tends to un ..

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