CSI: Cyber, the new CSI spin-off, will deal with the emerging threat of computer- and Internet-related crimes.
Creator Anthony Zuiker says it will reflect the recent surge in cyber threats, which can involve anything from hacking and identity theft to terrorism.
“You can’t really pick up a newspaper right now without seeing cybercrimes somewhere, so it’s a perfect topic for our CSI brand and we’re going to educate and entertain at the same time,” he tells reporters in Los Angeles.
Whereas the original CSI has forensic investigators going over crime scenes and using science to work out what happened, CSI: Cyber will follow a group of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents headed by a cyber-psychologist named Avery Ryan.