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How to Strengthen the Program of Action for Advancing Responsible State Behavior in Cyberspace

One of the most important venues for shaping cyber diplomacy in the coming years will be the United Nations (U.N.) First Committee Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) 2021-2025. There,…

Foreign Disinformation: What the US Government Can Start Doing Now

Two recent commissions, while diagnosing the challenge differently, reached some similar conclusions on steps to take.
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The Role for DHS in Countering the Disinformation Threat

DHS is well-placed to serve as the "truth-teller" to the American public.
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On Ransomware, Cyber Command Should Take a Backseat

As concerns about ransomware grow, U.S. policymakers must resist temptations to over-militarize the U.S. response, instead developing cyber capabilities across a range of federal…

Escalating Risks on Europe’s Eastern Frontier: Belarus-Poland, Russia-Ukraine, and How the US Can Work With Its Allies

President Biden hoped for a more stable and predictable relationship with Russia. Time to deal with reality instead.
An Investigator holds a piece of evidence as he and others search for evidence inside the wreckage of a Police bus at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul, 17 June 2007.

What the Afghanistan Withdrawal Teaches Us About Safeguarding Human Rights Evidence

As the Taliban seized control, evidence of human rights abuses had to be destroyed, hidden, or risk capture. It didn't have to be this way.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. of New York County, New York; cyber security fellow Matt Tait of University of Texas at Austin, Texas; Erik Neuenschwander, Manager of User Privacy of Apple, Inc.; Jay Sullivan, Product Management Director for Privacy and Integrity in Messenger of Facebook, Inc. testify during a hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee December 10, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Client-Side Scanning: A New Front In the War on User Control of Technology

When technology has expanded to nearly every corner of our lives, how much control should users have over the devices they own?
The logos of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are seen on computer terminals in a training room of the Cyber Crimes Center of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement October 13, 2009 in Fairfax, Virginia.

Congress Debates Cyber Incident Reporting Deadlines in the NDAA

The next NDAA could require cyber incident reporting for critical cyber infrastructure owners and operators within 24 or 72 hours of the incident.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about cybersecurity in the East Room of the White House on August 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. Members of the Biden cabinet, national security team and leaders from the private sector sit around long tables arranged in a circle or square attending the meeting about improving the nation's cybersecurity. Many of the chairs are socially distanced.

US Cybersecurity Has a Metrics Problem. Here’s How to Fix It.

Lawmakers have taken critical steps this year, but the lack of data makes it hard to know whether U.S. cybersecurity is actually improving.
Huawei Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, leaves British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, on May 8, 2019. Reporters crowd around with cameras, and two people flank Meng Wanzhou to make a path.

The Huawei DPA: A Prologue to the Global Arrest Game?

Deferred prosecution agreement for an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei provides short-term resolutions but raises long-term concerns.
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Oxford Statement on International Law Protections in Cyberspace: The Regulation of Ransomware Operations

Over 100 scholars sign Oxford Statement on international law protections against ransomware in cyberspace. Open for signature.
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Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: The Tangled Web of Budget & Acquisition

To successfully integrate AI into the IC, budget and acquisition processes must increase in speed, flexibility, and simplicity.
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