A Conversation with Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of the FBI Cyber Division
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Vorndran is Assistant Director of the FBI's Cyber Division, a position he's held since around March 2021. Prior to that, he was the special agent in charge in New Orleans, and he's worked in Afghanistan and on the Joint Terrorism Task Force at the Washington Field Office.
David Kris, Lawfare contributor and former Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, and Bryan Cunningham, Lawfare contributor and Executive Director of the University of California, Irvine’s Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, sat down with Bryan to talk about his career trajectory, the FBI's top cyber challenges, the Bureau's relationships with other agencies and private sector entities, and the challenges posed by the People's Republic of China.
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| 1:16.2 | We know that or we estimate that in the best case scenario the US government sees about 25% of all cyber intrusions throughout the country. |
| 1:19.3 | There's a few reasons for that. |
| 1:20.7 | There's no obligation for victims to report. and when I say the US government independent of |
| 1:26.6 | whether those reports go to SISA or Secret Service or NSA or FBI that's all |
| 1:30.8 | inclusive of the 25 percent but then you inclusive of the 25%. |
| 1:33.0 | But then you think of the value of the cyber threat intelligence |
| 1:36.0 | that exists in the private sector, |
| 1:38.0 | from your big strategics to your net defense companies |
| 1:41.0 | that are censoring networks etc. |
| 1:44.8 | None of us are operating with a common operating picture and that makes our jobs and |
| 1:51.8 | our partners at Cissant, NSA, and other women agencies jobs very, very difficult because of how the vast amounts of cyber threat intelligence data dispersed through different parts of industry and different parts of the |
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