Henry heads to FBI cyber crime branch

Shawn Henry is the new executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch.

The branch oversees all computer-based crime related to counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal threats against the United States, along with other areas, such as financial and organized crime. In 2007, Henry was deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, with program management responsibility for all FBI computer investigations worldwide.

Henry will succeed T.J. Harrington as the branch’s assistant deputy director. Most recently Henry was assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.