The Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) has primary responsibility for developing the Department’s overall cyber, cyber-enabled, and intellectual property offense enforcement strategies, for providing programmatic support to the CHIP Network, and for coordinating cyber and cyber-enabled crime and intellectual property investigations and cases that may significantly impact more than one district and/or other countries. In addition to developing and prosecuting their own cases and assisting CHIP prosecutors in cases on request, CCIPS supports the CHIP Network by serving as a source and conduit for information through CCIPS Online, a website of resource materials; providing information on cases and current events to the CHIP AUSAs; providing legal expertise through the distribution of manuals, monographs, case summaries, and legislative analysis; and developing and implementing training programs for CHIP and other prosecutors in conjunction with OLE.

[updated August 2023]