Bryan Vorndran

Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of FBI's Cyber Division, discusses the importance and successes of FISA Section 702, such as disrupting assassination plots and recovering ransom from the Colonial Pipeline hack. The podcast also covers compliance issues with the program and the FBI's efforts to address them. Other topics include the use of 702 to uncover terrorist plots and rescue kidnapped Americans, the use of batch jobs for IP address search, and the challenges of combating blended threats in cybersecurity.

Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of the FBI's Cyber Division, discusses the FBI's cyber challenges, relationships with other agencies and the private sector, and challenges posed by China. They touch on the difficulties in obtaining cyber threat intelligence, the role of the FBI's Cyber Division, and the Biden administration's executive order on cybersecurity. They also explore collaboration among government agencies, guidelines for engaging with the FBI in cybercrime cases, and topics like high altitude balloons and query standards within the FBI.