On December 13, 2023, the White House announced the launch of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Safer States Initiative to provide states with additional tools and the support they need to reduce gun violence and save lives. To kick off the initiative, the White House is releasing the Biden-Harris Safer States Agenda, outlining key actions states should take.

Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center, this webinar will explore best practices for uncovering identities on social media accounts offering valuable insights applicable to various criminal investigations such as those involving Child Sexual Abuse Material, criminal enterprises, and missing or trafficked persons. Key topics encompass the best ways to uncover indicators on anonymous social media profiles, chat rooms, and forums that can point to the identities of the user. The utilization of helpful tools to investigators and identifying additional social media platforms will also be discussed. Finally, once you have collected enough indicators, we will discuss how to utilize open sources to identify the user behind the account.

When: Tuesday, January 16, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

The University of California, Berkeley, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, and the Center for Naval Analysis’s Institute for Public Research recently launched a project, Cybersecurity Futures 2030, to explore how digital security will evolve globally over the next several years. The World Economic Forum’s report, “Cybersecurity Futures 2030: New Foundations,” examines recent discussions regarding cybersecurity challenges and presents four scenarios that portray fictional (but plausible) depictions of the world by 2030.

These scenarios were formed by discussions in five international locations (Dubai, Washington DC, Kigali, New Delhi, and Singapore), in order to present diverse influences regarding digital security. Based on the scenarios, the report highlights three overarching observations:

1. Security is now about keeping up with how quickly we trust new technologies, and how fast new ideas emerge.
2. The speed and extent of digitalization will impact the global security landscape as significantly as, or even more than, the specific capabilities of emerging technologies.
3. Discussions on internet fragmentation versus a “free and open” internet are evolving into more practical discussions focused on balancing digital sovereignty and interoperability.

Published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), this article is part two of IACP’s series on emerging cyberthreats. With the proliferation of the Internet of Things and internet-enabled crime, the prevalence and complexity of digital evidence is significantly increasing. This article discusses the components of cybercrime investigations and provides several cybercrime resources for law enforcement agencies to use.

Published by the Office for Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), this report provides brief case studies of 13 U.S. law enforcement agencies, large and small, which have successfully managed changes in their policies, practices, and goals. Each case study considers the actions of leadership in light of principles of change management such as strategic clarity, stakeholder engagement, and performance measurement. Change management has long been studied in the business community, and many models of organizational change have been proposed with applicability to public-sector organizations such as law enforcement agencies. Insights are included from a September 2022 roundtable of executives from some of the agencies profiled.