§383 National Computer Forensics Institute

Summary

Creates a National Computer Forensics Institute inside the U.S. Secret Service for fiscal years 2023 through 2028. The Institute must train and equip State, local, territorial, and Tribal law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges, and certain Secret Service cyber task force members, to investigate and prevent cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related threats. Training must follow federal privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties laws. Topics include investigating and stopping cybercrime (including illegal use of digital assets), doing forensic exams of computers and phones, court and prosecutorial issues, and how to handle digital evidence for trials. The Institute must share useful, timely information with trainees and try to include people from many different places, prioritizing State, local, Tribal, and territorial officials. It may give trainees equipment, software, and manuals. It will help grow the Secret Service Cyber Fraud Task Force network by adding trained participants. Activities already happening at any location before November 2, 2017 may continue. The Secret Service Director can pay for some or all training, equipment, and travel costs. The Secretary must include information about the Institute each year in the report under section 1116 of title 31 (unless that information is already in the President’s budget under section 1105 of title 31). Definitions: “cybersecurity threat,” “incident,” and “information system” are defined in other cited sections.