Is Cyber missing the Marque?
Summary: A presidential memorandum titled "Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime" directs the DOJ and DHS to establish a program letting private companies conduct cyber surveillance and cyber effects operations against transnational criminal organizations outside the United States, under delegated U.S. government authority. The memorandum gives DOJ and DHS 60 days to establish operating procedures, and no operation can be approved until those procedures are in place.
What you should know: For a private security company, the threat model for the firm and its employees changes considerably once it sits between "private cybersecurity company" and "authorized participant in U.S. offensive cyber operations" - and the open question is what happens when another country discovers that employees of an American cybersecurity company are conducting offensive operations inside its borders.
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