Imagine Sherlock Holmes meets James Bond in crime fighting, FBI Director Christopher Wray says, “We’ve got technically trained personnel―with cutting-edge tools and skills you might never have imagined seeing outside of a James Bond movie―covering roughly 400 offices around the country.”

From September 11 attacks and Sony-pocalypse to Israel’s 9/11 and MOAB (Mother of All Breaches), the author shares insights from Hollywood such as 24, Homeland, The Americans, and The X-Files. In real life, the unsung heroes at the FBI have thwarted a myriad of terrorist attacks and cybercrimes.

The FBI has worked diligently to improve its public image and build trust through community outreach and pop culture. In addition to Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in the popular TV series The X-Files, Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs” has inspired a generation of women to join the FBI.

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This book is indispensable for anyone who is contemplating a career at the FBI, think tanks, or law enforcement agencies worldwide. It is also a must-read for every executive to safeguard their organization against cyberattacks that have caused more than $10 billion in damages.

Consider yourself warned that quantum computers pose an existential threat to the very way of life we live in the free world and whichever nation brings a sufficiently powerful quantum computer online will have an opportunity at global domination. In the wrong hands, quantum computers may be the greatest terrorism device ever invented.

In the spirit of President John F. Kennedy, one may proclaim: “Ask not what counterterrorism and cybersecurity can do for you, ask what you can do for counterterrorism and cybersecurity.”

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.”

While a terrorist act causes innocent people pain, suffering, and even death, war is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.

The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.

Albert Einstein said in his speech to the New History Society on December 14, 1930 that “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

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