The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

analysts have specific training requirements which include IINI online undercover and advancecyber crime courses. Agents are enrolled in a Cyber Career Path to specialize in these cybercrimes.The Innocent Images National Initiative Unit (IINIU) is an intelligence-driven, proactive, multiagencyinvestigative initiative to combat the proliferation of child pornography/child sexualexploitation facilitated by online predators. The mission of IINIU is to reduce the vulnerabilityof children to acts of sexual exploitation and abuse, which are facilitated through the use ofcomputers and digital media; to support FBI field offices in their efforts to identify and rescuechild victims; to support others in their efforts to investigate and prosecute sexual predators whouse the Internet and other online services to sexually exploit children for personal or financialgain; and to strengthen the capabilities of federal, state, local, and international law enforcementthrough training programs and investigative assistance. IINIU is responsible for all IINI programmanagement and policy development, the training of all IINI investigators, research anddevelopment of emerging technologies, outreach initiatives and facilitates the forensic analysisof computer-related media. The Innocent Images International Task Force, an initiative andtraining program focused on coordination and cooperation with our allies, is described more fullyin Section F(1)(d)(10)(i) below.The FBI recently opened a new facility which is dedicated exclusively to the forensic analysis ofdigital evidence in the most significant child exploitation cases nationwide and conducts researchin support of the investigative and forensic operations for IINI. The facility is located inLinthicum, MD and is a cooperative effort between the Cyber Division Innocent Images NationalInitiative and the Operational Technology Division’s Computer Analysis Response Team(CART). The facility was formed to address the growing need for dedicated resources in thearea of computer forensic analysis for child exploitation investigations. The dedication of thefacility to a specific mission allows for examiners to specialize in this discipline and providedetailed content analysis to investigators. The facility is capable of providing large scale forensicsupport and analysis to enterprise investigations containing multiple terabytes of data. Thefacility supports forensic examination services on a wide variety of operating system platformsas well as other forms of digital media, including digital cameras and cell phones. The facilityincludes a research component that is actively engaged in developing tools and resources tobetter identify and conduct operations against the most egregious offenders. Efforts arecontinuing to develop an automated system capable of identifying new trends in relation to howoffenders use the internet to conduct illegal activities.IINI also takes the lead in Internet safety training on behalf of the FBI. The FBI’s Safe OnlineStreet (S.O.S.) Internet Challenge is a national Internet safety program designed to help studentsrecognize potential dangers associated with the Internet, email, chat rooms and social networkingsites. This initiative was launched nationally in the Fall of 2009. The program addresses anddefines topics serious in nature such as seduction, child pornography, solicitation, exploitation,obscenity and online predators. Students take web-based quizzes and review specific web sitesaimed at promoting online safety. Approximately 60,000 students have participated throughoutthe United States in the program. More information can be found at: http://www.fbi-sos.org/.43