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U.S. Department of Justice Computer Crime and
Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)

The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted. Intellectual Property (IP) has become one of the principal U.S. economic engines, and the nation is a target of choice for thieves of material protected by copyright, trademark, or trade-secret designation. In pursuing all these goals, CCIPS attorneys regularly run complex investigations, resolve unique legal and investigative issues raised by emerging computer and telecommunications technologies; litigate cases; provide litigation support to other prosecutors; train federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel; comment on and propose legislation; and initiate and participate in international efforts to combat computer and intellectual property crime.

In December 2014, the Criminal Division created the Cybersecurity Unit within the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section to serve as a central hub for expert advice and legal guidance regarding how the criminal electronic surveillance and computer fraud and abuse statutes impact cybersecurity. Among the unit's goals is to ensure that law enforcement authorities are used effectively to bring perpetrators to justice while also protecting the privacy of every day Americans. In pursuing that goal, the unit is helping to shape cyber security legislation to protect our nation's computer networks and individual victims from cyber attacks. The unit also engages in extensive outreach to the private sector to promote lawful cybersecurity practices.

Training material provided online includes:

• Best Practices for Victim Response and Reporting of Cyber Incidents (April 2015)
• DHS and DOJ Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Procedures and Guidance (February 2016)
• Active Defense ◦Cyber Defense Experts Roundtable Report (March 10, 2015)
• Cyber Threats ◦Ransomware: What It Is and What To Do About It (June 2016)
• How To Protect Your Networks from Ransomware: Interagency Technical Guidance Document (June 2016)

Manuals/Guides:

• Prosecuting Computer Crimes Manual (2010)
• Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes Manual (April 2013)
• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations Manual (2009)
• IP Victim Guide (June 2016)
• Digital Forensic Analysis Methodology Flowchart (August 22, 2007)

Interviews and Speeches:

• Remarks of Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell at Cybersecurity + Law Enforcement: The Cutting Edge Symposium (Oct 16th, 2015)
• Remarks of Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell at the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute (May 20th, 2015)
• Remarks of Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell at Criminal Division's Cybersecurity Industry Roundtable (April 29th, 2015)
• Michael Stawasz, Deputy Chief for Computer Crime, Dept. of Justice (Friday Dec 19th, 2014)

Link: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/about-ccips

Link: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/cybersecurity-unit