Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI’s criminal, cyber, response and services branch, said the bureau has combined traditional techniques with new technological applications to speed up investigations and address today’s cyber crimes, Nextgov reported Monday.
Read More »Amy Hess: FBI Works With Private Sector to Facilitate Response to Cyber Incidents
Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI, said the bureau is working to establish partnerships with companies to better respond to cyber threats since the private sector manages approximately 95 percent of the country’s infrastructure, Federal News Network reported Monday. “And we have to develop those relationships from a government perspective with private sector to ensure that for number one, for starters, that were notified when it is happens, because the sooner we can get involved, the sooner we can identify who it is, the sooner we can identify their [tactics, techniques and procedures], and the sooner we can stop them, hopefully from doing it again,” Hess said on the network’s Agency in Focus – Justice Department.
Read More »Amy Hess Named FBI Executive Assistant Director for Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Operations
FBI has appointed Amy Hess to serve as the executive assistant director of the criminal, cyber, response and services branch of the agency. The law enforcement organization said Tuesday Hess has left her position as special agent in charge of FBI’s office in Louisville, Ky., which she held for nearly …
Read More »FBI Appoints Christopher Piehota as Science & Tech Branch Executive Asst Director
Christopher Piehota, former director of the FBI‘s Terrorist Screening Center, has been appointed executive assistant director of the bureau’s science and technology branch. FBI said Monday the 21-year bureau veteran will assume his new position in October and succeed Amy Hess, who will transition to a new role as special agent in charge of …
Read More »Amy Hess: FBI Relies on Judicial Authorization Principle to Access Encrypted Electronic Data
Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI‘s science and technology branch, has said the FBI needs access to electronic information to aid in its investigations amid technological changes and evolving national security and criminal threats. Hess made the remarks in testimony delivered Tuesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight …
Read More »Amy Hess: Biometric ID Tech Helps Accelerate FBI’s Criminal Investigations
Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI‘s science and technology branch, has said tools at the bureau’s Biometrics Technology Center have helped agents investigate criminal cases faster, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark Rockwell writes the FBI and the Defense Department opened the facility at the bureau’s Clarksburg, West Virginia-based campus …
Read More »Amy Hess: FBI Continues Work on Rapid DNA Analysis, Technology
Amy Hess, executive assistant director of FBI‘s science and technology branch, has outlined the bureau’s work on Rapid DNA during a hearing with a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Hess said in written remarks that FBI’s efforts focus on driving the effectiveness and speed of the Combined DNA …
Read More »Amy Hess Promoted to FBI Science, Technology Executive Assistant Director
Amy Hess, formerly assistant director of the FBI‘s operational technology division, has been promoted to executive assistant director of the science and technology branch. She will oversee the branch’s criminal justice information services, laboratory and operational technology divisions, the FBI said Tuesday. Her previous roles at FBI headquarters have included …
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