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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is struggling to hire computer scientists, according to a Department of Justice audit of the feeb's attempts to implement its Next Generation Cyber Initiative.
A 34-page audit report (PDF) from the DoJ notes that, while making considerable progress, the FBI has "encountered challenges in attracting external participants to its established Cyber Task Forces".
[The audit] bemoaned how hiring and retaining qualified white hats remained a challenge for the FBI, especially when competing private-sector entities pay more and have less invasive recruitment processes. The FBI reportedly did not hire 52 of the 134 computer scientists for which it was authorised, meaning 38 per cent of the workforce it requires (as per budget) is simply not there. This additionally means that five of the FBI's 56 field offices do not have even a single computer scientist assigned to their Cyber Task Force.
Back in 2011, the Office of the Inspector General gave the FBI a thorough scolding over its inability to address America's cyber-intrusion threat, for which it has become the responsible national body. The Next Generation Cyber Initiative was launched in response, essentially as a platform for funding increases in the face of a swelling number of data breaches and cyber-attacks in recent years.
This is not the first mention of the FBI's difficulties in recruiting infosec professionals. Last year, the [FBI]'s director James Comey said the company was re-examining its drugs policy as too many applicants seemed to be enjoying a doobie en route to interview.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Flyingmoose on Monday August 03 2015, @06:52PM
Who would want to work for the dirty fucking pigs?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 03 2015, @07:01PM
Gray hats maybe. Black hats don't want anything to do with law enforcement, and white hats are more discriminating that most cops. WTF do the idiots at the FBI think they have to offer a white hat? When has the FBI ever been a do-good organization? They blow with the political wind, worse than the CIA does.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 04 2015, @12:13PM
Black hats don't want anything to do with law enforcement
I thought about it for awhile last night and given a choice of going to college to get a $100K paper that says you have a degree in infosec, or working at FBI for a couple years, PROBABLY you come out financially and workplace ahead as a future blackhat by joining the FBI.
As a recently retired agent you'd be pretty valuable in certain countries, or contracted to certain folks to give advice on how the FBI would react.
Its not about the job, but the next job after working for the FBI for a couple years. Just long enough to learn how they work and what they're capable of.