# FBI Disrupts Cyber Threats Proactively

The FBI’s bureau-wide cyber strategy prioritizes disrupting hostile cyber actors before attacks reach their targets, while expanding support for victims and operational intelligence sharing with private-sector organizations. The signals identify no solicitation, contract award, funding amount, or procurement timeline, but the strategy could shape future operational needs and coordination between the FBI and industry partners.

- Contractors should assess whether their threat-intelligence, incident-response, network-visibility, and cyber-resilience capabilities could support the strategy; these are potential areas of demand, not stated requirements.
- Organizations working with the FBI should be prepared to coordinate on threat information sharing and incident response as those activities develop.
- Companies should account for the signal’s warning that organizations could face retaliatory cyber activity. No specific compliance mandate or deadline is identified.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Public Safety, Information Technology
**Topics:** Cybersecurity
**Published:** October 06, 2026

### Government Entities
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

### Vendors
- Optiv ()

### Key Quotes
> This is really taking a new look at how do you systematically dismantle the organization, dismantle, the actual threat actors out there,
> — James Turgal, Vice President of Global Cyber Risk at Optiv

### Sources
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        The FBI wants to disrupt cyber threats before they become cyber incidents - Federal News Network](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/podcast/federal-drive-with-terry-gerton-podcast/the-fbi-wants-to-disrupt-cyber-threats-before-they-become-cyber-incidents) - federalnewsnetwork.com
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        The FBI wants to disrupt cyber threats before they become cyber incidents - Federal News Network](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/10/the-fbi-wants-to-disrupt-cyber-threats-before-they-become-cyber-incidents) - federalnewsnetwork.com