The Days of Responsible Cybersecurity are Finally Here
OPINION — The days of cyber negligence are numbered. While nobody can expect perfect cybersecurity, a vast supermajority of the painful...
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The Cipher Brief
- May 11, 2022
The National Security Implications of New Rules of the Road for Cyber
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The Cyber Initiatives Group (powered by The Cipher Brief) filed national security-related comments in support of the...
Phil Venables
- Mar 28, 2022
In Cyber: Resilience is about Capabilities, not Plans
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Over the past 2 years, since I wrote the first version of this post, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to test our...
Chris Christou and Joseph Bull
- Mar 22, 2022
5G Security: Seeing Through the Clouds
By Chris Christou and Joseph Bull, Booz Allen Hamilton SPONSORED – U.S. government organizations racing to adopt 5G mobile technology...
Gentry Lane
- Mar 9, 2022
‘Shields Up’ is a Slogan, not a Strategy
Sharing opinions is important. Opinion pieces represent the diverse views of The Cipher Brief audience and do not represent views of The...
Christopher Ahlberg and Geoff Brown
- Feb 26, 2022
‘Watch’ or ‘Stand Against’ the Digital Machinery of Aggression in Ukraine
OPINION — The machinery of aggression moves across the land of the people of Ukraine to their capital. There should be no words to argue...
Sandra Joyce
- Feb 22, 2022
The Ukraine Cyber Crisis: We Should Prepare but not Panic
OPINION — As the situation in Ukraine unfolds, the prospect of serious cyberattacks has captured the attention of cyber intelligence...
Bill Harlow
- Feb 21, 2022
How China is Reweaving Hollywood’s Red Carpet
REVIEW — Much of the world is correctly focused these days on whether the Russian army is about to invade Ukraine and possibly seize Kyiv....
Brian Fitzgerald
- Feb 1, 2022
What Does Intelligence Look Like in the Future?
REVIEW – In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart offers a polished primer on US intelligence for the uninitiated while also posing...
Want to Dominate in Cyber? Better Change your Policy.
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE/OPINION — Following the early 2021 cyberattacks against Colonial Pipeline that led to widespread gas shortages on the...
Walter Pincus
- Jan 22, 2022
A New Path to Cyber Conflict with Russia
OPINION — Last Thursday, in a little-noticed U.S. Treasury Department press release, the Biden administration accused Russia of currently...
James Lawler
- Jan 12, 2022
The Fascination of the Abomination
REVIEW – “The horror! The horror!” murmured Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz as he dies in The Heart of Darkness. Those words and their...
Bill Harlow
- Jan 4, 2022
A CIA Story of Disruption and Overt Success
REVIEW – There are a couple of surefire ways to annoy U.S. officials who worked on counterterrorism issues in the years shortly after...
Dr. Kristopher Hall and Matthew Edwards
- Dec 14, 2021
5G Security: It’s Zero Hour for Zero Trust
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — Fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology will completely transform global telecommunications networks....
Robert Hannigan
- Dec 12, 2021
The Supply Chain is the Perfect Asymmetric Target
Robert Hannigan is a Principal Member of The Cyber Initiatives Group, powered by The Cipher Brief. EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Asked recently...
Terence Check
- Nov 29, 2021
Exploring China’s High-Tech Penal Colony
REVIEW — I grew up in a household of second-generation Hungarian immigrants, and though I was born in the 1990s, and out of the immediate...
Daniel Hoffman
- Oct 19, 2021
A Deeper Understanding of Cyberspace in Peace and War
REVIEW — Cyberspace in Peace and War by Martin C. Libicki, delivers a comprehensive review and analysis of the threats in cyberspace as...
Christopher Gallup
- Aug 31, 2021
Does the World Really End This Way?
REVIEW – You may or may not know that zero-day exploits are used to take over, control, or destroy a target system. In her book, This is...
Corin Stone
- Aug 22, 2021
Artificial Intelligence in the IC: Culture is Critical
(Editor’s Note: This article was first published by our friends at Just Security and is the second in a series that is diving into the...
Joseph DeTrani
- Aug 8, 2021
Arms Control for Cyber
OPINION — The Solar Winds cyber-attack in March 2020 that successfully targeted hundreds of U.S. Government agencies and private sector...
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