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Our team members aided the U.S. Secret Service in solving the landmark TJX & Heartland and Iceman cases.
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Our SEI researchers write books covering software engineering topics for this series of books published by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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Our research yields approaches for protecting mobile devices from malware attacks, leveraging social media to discover malicious activity, and improving automated text extraction and video exploitation.
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Our Mission: We conduct research and develop technologies, capabilities, and practices that organizations can use to develop incident response capabilities and facilitate forensics investigations.
Current tools and processes are inadequate for responding to increasingly sophisticated attackers and cybercrimes. The Digital Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (DIID) is addressing that problem by conducting research and developing technologies, capabilities, and practices that organizations can use to develop incident response capabilities and facilitate forensics investigations. DIID team members also develop advanced tools and techniques to address gaps that are not covered by existing resources.
We leverage social media to uncover malicious activity.
Our research includes leveraging social media to discover malicious activity, protecting mobile devices from unknown malware attacks, and improving automated text extraction and video exploitation.
We develop tools to help law enforcement.
We develop resources and tools to facilitate forensic examinations, including tools to help authorized members of the law enforcement community.Engage with Us
Help inform our research by sharing your ideas with us. Let us know if you need support from our team.
Publications & Media
- 01/31/2017 Software Solutions Symposium 2017 - Informational Brochure The Software Solutions Symposium is a forum for learning about emerging technologies and practical solutions that you can apply today for help with systemic software issues such as assurance, cost, and schedule. March 20-23, 2017. Arlington, VA
- 02/22/2016 CERT Cybersecurity Training & Education Catalog This catalog summarizes the cybersecurity courses and certificates offered by the CERT Division of the SEI.
- 02/22/2016 It's Time to Engage with the CERT Division Learn how the CERT Division can help you keep pace with cybersecurity challenges.
- 10/13/2014 Design Research in the Context of Federal Law Enforcement In this paper, the authors discuss the design research methods used to develop a hardware and software solution for paper-based evidence processing.
- 03/05/2014 Cyber Engineering Solutions Group: How We Create Innovative Solutions for People With the increasing number of projects and the expansion of our team, we needed to capture our internal process and expertise so that we could effectively communicate our approach to new team members, the larger organization and our customers.
A New Approach to Cyber Incident Response
In this blog post, Anne Connell and Tim Palko describe a tool that their teams are developing to provide the various agencies and organizations that respond to cyber incidents a platform by which to share information and forge collaborations.
Search for Boston Bombers Likely Relied on Eyes, Not Software
In this article, Todd Waits, a digital investigation and intelligence expert in the CERT Division, talks to Reuters about the potential use of facial-recognition technology in the investigation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attack.
DIID Collaborates on Computer Crime Cases
As part of the TJX & Heartland case, DIID team members collaborated with the U.S. Secret Service to collect evidence and create forensic images of the computers involved in the theft of over 130 million credit and debit card numbers, making it the biggest computer crime case ever prosecuted in the United States. The DIID Team also assisted federal law enforcement in acquiring and decrypting data related to the Iceman case, which involved attacks on computers at financial institutions and credit card processing centers.
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