The series follows an elite team of FBI Special Agents tasked with investigating cyber crimes in North America. Based out of Washington, the team is supervised by Avery Ryan, an esteemed Ph.D. Ryan is a behavioral psychologist turned cyber shrink who established the FBI Cyber Crime division and heads a "hack-for-good" program, a scheme in which the criminals she catches can work for her in lieu of receiving a prison sentence. Ryan and her team—Simon Sifter, Elijah Mundo, Daniel Krumitz, Raven Ramirez, and Brody Nelson—work alongside the newly established Next Generation Cyber Forensics Division, a specialist department under the directorship of D.B. Russell, in order to solve Internet-related murders, cyber-theft, hacking, sexual offenses, blackmail, and any other crime deemed to be cyber-related within the FBI's jurisdiction.