Web: What Technologies will be Needed to Mitigate Nefarious Behavior and How Can Technology Help Law Enforcement? Abstract: The Dark Net has emerged as the preferred trading venue for organized criminal networks and individuals to carry out illicit activities, and has also bolstered a new breed of crimes such as HaaS “hacking as a service.” Darknet markets have multiplied since the first major takedowns and continue to use enhanced privacy and decentralized technologies in order to evade law enforcement detection. Crimes committed with the Dark Net pose interesting challenges such as how to coordinate technically intensive operations where data runs across national jurisdictions and where targets are fast-moving and hard to pinpoint, often using encryption. But technologies can also help law enforcement address the challenge of the Dark Web: -Sifting software that sorts through mass amounts of online data to extract meaningful information from targeted searches. -Indexing programs that give government new ways to analyze, organize and interact with data pulled from a larger pool of sources. -Computer vision search imaging. -Outside experts who monitor the web on behalf of law enforcement agencies, trawling to find specific illegal activities and using various tools to automate the gathering. This panel will address the limitations of these technologies, as well as discuss what additional technologies are needed to combat this challenge.