Yesterday at the National Cyber Summit, Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, laid out the FBI’s updated Cyber Strategy, the most substantive public cyber strategy the Bureau has ever released. In a conversation with Jason Fickett, an executive at Booz Allen Hamilton, AD Leatherman explained how the strategy builds capacity in two directions: internally, by investing in top cyber talent, advanced training, and AI tools to scale operations; and externally, by deepening partnerships that expand the FBI’s intel and operational capabilities. Both approaches help the @FBI and its partners “move upstream” against cyber threat actors. That means going beyond reacting to individual incidents to proactively target the command-and-control infrastructure, tools, and criminal ecosystems that enable those actors. AD Leatherman also highlighted the FBI’s investment in its Huntsville, Alabama campus, which now includes the Kinetic Cyber Range, a 22,000-square-foot training environment designed to simulate a small town and built for investigative training.