From the Assistant Director: Training and Equipping Cybercrime Investigators: U.S. Secret Service, State, and Local Law Enforcement Partnership

For almost 150 years, the U.S. Secret Service has led the government’s efforts against financial crimes and worked to protect the United States from criminal networks striving to exploit its financial infrastructure. The investigative mission of the Secret Service has continually evolved to keep pace with the information revolution and an increasingly globalized economy. The migration to the world’s use of advanced technology and the Internet has provided an environment for increased transnational cybercriminal activity. These actions not only harm individual consumers, but also diminish confidence in the digital financial systems upon which global economies rely. International criminal networks are proliferating and striking new alliances at an accelerated rate. The result is a convergence of threats that are becoming more complex, volatile, and destabilizing and require an increasing level of cooperation and partnership among all levels of law enforcement to effectively counteract the threats.