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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...
The Cipher Brief
May 11, 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...
Phil Venables
Mar 27, 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...
Chris Christou and Joseph Bull
Mar 21, 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...

Gentry Lane
Mar 9, 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...
Christopher Ahlberg and Geoff Brown
Feb 26, 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...

Sandra Joyce
Feb 22, 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....
Bill Harlow
Feb 21, 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...
Brian Fitzgerald
Feb 1, 2022


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...


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...

Walter Pincus
Jan 22, 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...
James Lawler
Jan 12, 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...
Bill Harlow
Jan 4, 2022


5G Security: It’s Zero Hour for Zero Trust
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — Fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology will completely transform global telecommunications networks....
Dr. Kristopher Hall and Matthew Edwards
Dec 14, 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...

Robert Hannigan
Dec 12, 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...
Terence Check
Nov 29, 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...
Daniel Hoffman
Oct 19, 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...
Christopher Gallup
Aug 30, 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...

Corin Stone
Aug 22, 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...

Joseph DeTrani
Aug 8, 2021


Leveraging Uncertainty for Strategic Cyber Deterrence
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — Legislators are calling for mandatory disclosure of cybersecurity events in previously unregulated...

Gentry Lane
Aug 5, 2021
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