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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...


Gentry Lane
Aug 5, 2021
Leveraging Uncertainty for Strategic Cyber Deterrence
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — Legislators are calling for mandatory disclosure of cybersecurity events in previously unregulated...
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