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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
FBI’s Cyber-Crime Chief Relates Struggle for Top Talent
The FBI’s inability to recruit and keep the best available IT talent has proven to be one of the biggest challenges facing the government’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (I3C), a senior official said Tuesday.
They come, stay a few years and move on because, ultimately, we can’t pay what the industry pays for talent,” Larkin said, adding that the bureau also has experienced difficulties with keeping pace with employees’ training needs.
Because of those shortcomings, Larkin said, the I3C spent the past four years forging partnerships with the biggest names in the tech industry to share expertise, coordinate on intelligence and develop best practices and protocols for fighting cyber-crime.
Originally formed as partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to fight online fraud, Larkin said the unit had to evolve to keep up with the rapidly changing face of crime on the Internet.
Larkin discussed several major highlights over the years, including “Operation Web Snare” in August, which led to the arrests or convictions of more than 150 individuals and the return of 117 criminal complaints and indictments.