FBI announces cyber personnel moves

The FBI announced two appointments this week in its cyber division. Joseph Demarest, the FBI's assistant director for international operations, will transfer to the cyber division as assistant director. Demarest became a special agent in 1988, an later was assigned to the counterterrorism division. Additionally, James Burrell, cyber division section chief, has been promoted to deputy assistant director. He began his FBI career as a special agent in 1991, was assigned in 1998 to the National Infrastructure Protection Center – the predecessor to the cyber division – and  later was promoted to unit chief of the division's international investigative support unit.

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