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Val Cofield

Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Cyber Division

Val Cofield is a Senior Director and Lead for Task Force Three at the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the Deputy Assistant Director for the FBI’s Cyber Division. She has over 20 years of service with the FBI and has served in a variety of leadership positions such as the Senior Policy Director on current and emerging technologies and their impact on law enforcement, the Chief of Staff for the Science and Technology Branch, and the Budget Officer for the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.
Ideas

Bad Cyber Actors Don’t Fear the Law. We Can Change That.

Better coordination among law enforcement agencies at home and abroad are key to the layered deterrence strategy we need.