US DOJ NAMES LAUFMAN TO HEAD COUNTER ESPIONAGE EFFORTS

David Laufman, a CIA recruit right out of college, who was passed over for Inspector General of the Department of Defense in 2006, has been named as the head of the Counter Espionage Section of the National Security Division. This is the latest hiring decision by John Carlin, head of the NSD, who is managing an expansion of his division.
Laufman’s division office is in Washington, D. C., but members of his staff oversee the National Security Cyber Specialists Network, which consists of prosecutors from each of the 95 U. S. Attorney’s Offices who focus on cyber threats to national security.
Different Industries, Different Words
The DOJ press release says ‘counterespionage’ but a DuckDuckGo search for this term won’t produce nearly as many interesting returns as putting in ‘advanced persistent threat’, the phrase the infosec industry usually renders as the acronym APT. What that means varies depending on which hopeful salesman is offering you a solution, but this minimal definition is something none of them would quarrel over:

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on December 3, 2014.