we now have psycher squads in every one of our 56 field offices with more than 1 now specially trained agents, analysts, and forensic sick specialists. borders and boundaries pose no obstacles for hackers so the fbi uses or 63 attachÉ offices around the world. we also have special agents embedded in romania, estonia, you crane and the netherlands, working to identify key players and here at home the national group briggs together 18 law enforcement, military and intelligence agency in order to stop current and prevent future attacks. they operate through threat focused cells. special agents, officers and analysts who focus on particular threats such as botnets. just last week we announce d targets of six hackers known as an anonymous. they target the companies, media, and law enforcement since 2008. this case was successful because we worked extensively with our overseas parters and we use our sophisticated intelligence techniques in the psycher arena. we must continue to push forward and enhance our collective capability to fight cyber crime and we do need tougher penalties for cyber

and cybercom, to ensure we have ample warning to understand if there's a cyber attack or malicious psycher activity taking place. we have good cooperation across the department of defense and with our partners in the department of homeland security to axhooef that end. >> i think we can all understand why it's a work in progress gin the complexity of the issue. would you say that we would have some way of bringing it to a resolution, that issue, so we can have some criteria to determine when the nation is under an attack, military attack that needs a response or a military-like attack that requires a response? do you believe we'll have that kind of sense or identification, criteria, for instance, within a year? is that a reasonable expectation? >> senator, i don't think that's an unreasonable expectation. i wouldn't want to put an exact time limit on it, but i think there's momentum. there's a moment tuum across th department and across the government. we appreciate the support of this committee and senate in helping us think through this. i know you had a suggestionful tabletop exercise,