Deputy Assistant Director of the Cyber Operations Branch in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division
Jason Bilnoski is the Deputy Assistant Director of the Cyber Operations Branch in the FBI’s Cyber Division. In this role, he oversees mission-critical operational teams and partnerships focused on imposing costs on malicious cyber actors, protecting U.S. infrastructure, and advancing whole-of-government cyber strategies.
Mr. Bilnoski began his career as a Special Agent with the FBI in January 2008. From 2008 through 2012, he was assigned to the Memphis Field Office, Jackson Resident Agency, where he investigated violent crimes and drug offenses. He was also a member of the FBI SWAT team and the Operational Medical Program. In 2012, Mr. Bilnoski transferred to the Attorney General’s Protection Detail, where he participated in numerous protective assignments domestically and internationally.
In 2014, Mr. Bilnoski was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and transferred to the Cyber Division. In this role, he oversaw investigative and intelligence matters related to cybercrime across both the public and private sectors. Mr. Bilnoski worked closely with U.S. intelligence community partners, private-sector organizations, and international law enforcement and intelligence agencies to counter sophisticated cyber actors targeting the United States. Throughout his time in the Cyber Division, he earned several awards, including the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center Award for Countering Technical and Cyber Threats.
In 2016, Mr. Bilnoski transferred to the Detroit Field Office, where he supervised the Computer Intrusion Squad and led its criminal and national security computer intrusion investigations. In this capacity, he also led FBI Detroit Field Office’s Cyber Task Force, which included federal, state, and local partners.
In 2018, Mr. Bilnoski was assigned as the Legal Attaché in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he was responsible for all FBI operations in Pakistan. In 2021, he was deployed to Baghdad, Iraq as the Legal Attaché, where he led regional FBI activities in a war-time environment across Iraq and Syria. Following that assignment, he returned to the United States and was selected as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Criminal and Computer Intrusion matters at the Norfolk Field Office. In this capacity, Mr. Bilnoski served as a senior manager for crisis response, directing SWAT, the Evidence Response Team (ERT), and the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT), as well as responses to significant cyber incidents.
In September 2023, Mr. Bilnoski was selected to serve as Section Chief within the FBI’s Cyber Division, where he was the Senior Liaison Officer to the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate and U.S. Cyber Command. In this senior executive role, he led a multifaceted team focused on strategic collaboration, operations development, and whole-of-government responses to significant cybersecurity matters affecting the United States.
Mr. Bilnoski was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Loyola University New Orleans and a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Southeastern Louisiana University. He is also a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Certification Program. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Bilnoski served as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service and as a Sheriff’s Deputy in Louisiana.