Careers in Investigating and Preventing Cybercrime in United States

Careers in Investigating and Preventing Cybercrime

Overview of Careers in Investigating and Preventing Cybercrime in relation to cyber crime: [1] Examples of positions now offered and maintained by organizations include, but are not limited to the following: (1) high tech crime investigator (law enforcement); (2) assistant district attorney (ADA) specializing in prosecuting computer crimes and intellectual property cases (law enforcement); (3) information security officer (government agency or private sector firm); (4) chief information officer (CIO) (all types of organizations); (5) director of audits and information technology assessments (accounting/consulting firms and other large organizations); (6) information technology scientist or R&D technician (universities and government-funded laboratories); (7) computer crime professor (colleges and universities); (8) media enrichment/technology teacher (primary and secondary education); (9) salesperson/manager (in retail outlets that sell commercial and retail computing and telecommunications equipment; (10) security software designer (within the private software development industry); (11) intelligence/data analyst (in certain government agencies and private sector firms); and (12) training coordinator/instructor (within government, private, and nonprofit organizations).

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Notes and References

1. By Samuel C. McQuade, III

See Also

• Types of Cybercrime
• Cybercriminal

Further Reading

Balkin, J.M., Eddan, K., Grimmelmann, J., Kozlovski, N., & Wagman S. (eds.). (2007). Cybercrime: Digital cops in a networked environment (Ex machina: law, technology, and society).New York:New York University Press;High Technology Crime Investigators Association. (2008). International High Technology Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA) Home Page. Retrieved from http://www.htcia.org/; Information Systems Security Association. (2008). Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Home Page. Retrieved from http://www.issa.org/; InfraGard. (2008). InfraGard Home Page. Retrieved from http://www.infragard.net/; McMillan, T. (2007). Change your career: Computer Network security as your new profession (Change your career). New York: Kaplan Publishing; Office of Personnel Management. (2008). United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Home Page. Retrieved from http://www.opm.gov/; SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security Institute. (2008). SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security Institute (SANS) Institute Home Page. Retrieved from http://www.sans.org/.