The Russian Threat You're Not Hearing About

August 15, 2018 | Kathleen Hicks and Michael Matlaga

'The Homeland' is part of a dedicated series of Cipher Brief columns focused on examining the full range of threats to U.S. national security. The United States is reawakening to ...

August 15, 2018 | Mark Kelton

In part two of 'The Coming Chinese Storm', former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence at the CIA's National Clandestine Service, Mark Kelton, lays out the Chinese threat to both the public ...

August 14, 2018 | Mark Kelton

A gifted intelligence officer with whom I worked was fond of pronouncing, “A storm is announced by a single breeze”.  That supposed Chinese saying was invariably invoked when we thought ...

August 14, 2018 | Walter Pincus

OPINION -- Congress has to take a serious, long, hard, public look at President Trump’s June off-the-cuff idea of a Space Corps, and turn down, rather than blindly approve, the ...

August 13, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

Pakistan sits at a critical crossroads of U.S. Counterterrorism efforts, and geo-political strategy with China. Pakistan has elected a former cricket player, Imran Khan, as it’s newest Prime Minister.  Pakistan’s ...

August 13, 2018 | Emile Nakhleh

By threatening a devastating war against Iran, President Donald Trump’s recent response to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani’s benign statement about “the mother of all peace” and “the mother of all ...

August 10, 2018 | Anonymous

THE DUST-BINNEY OF HISTORY:  In July of last year a group of contrarian former government officials who call themselves “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity” (VIPS) came out with a theory that the ...

August 09, 2018 | Daniel Hoffman

Ten years ago this month, war erupted between Russia and Georgia after Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia and shelled the town of Tskhinvali, in response to alleged Russian provocations. Russia ...

August 08, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

Iran hasn’t been the only target of U.S. sanctions in the past week.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered retaliatory sanctions again two unnamed U.S. officials after the U.S. ordered ...

August 08, 2018 | Francis X. Taylor

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen recently traveled from Washington D.C. to New York with her senior team in tow, to announce the creation of the National Risk Management ...

August 07, 2018 | Norman T. Roule

The U.S. re-imposed sanctions on Iran on Monday after pulling out of the JCPOA Agreement in May.  European allies responded by issuing a statement saying the nuclear agreement with Iran ...

August 06, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

A recent European Union report  offers an EU specific look at terrorism faced by member states in 2017.   A part of that report focused on terrorist financing, particularly on how money-laundering ...

August 03, 2018 | Suzanne Kelly

Not surprisingly, the man who President Trump is appointing as the next Deputy Director of the CIA managed to maintain a low public profile during his 30-year Agency career.  Some ...

August 02, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

Up Front:  The U.S. government is taking on a more aggressive role in its mission to protect software supply chains from being infiltrated, as the government’s public-private cyber lead agency ...

August 02, 2018 | Klara Jordan

The 2018 NATO summit and the months leading up to it were a spectacle of diplomacy at its finest and at its worse. The media drama surrounding the summit overshadowed ...

August 01, 2018 | Jason Brodsky and Norman T. Roule

On July 28, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked 29 years since a referendum made his election official. Today, at 79 years old, he is still relatively young in ...

August 01, 2018 | Todd Rosenblum

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Neilsen, along with several of her Department of Homeland Security senior leaders held a conference in New York this week, sending a clear statement that ...

July 31, 2018 | Steven Ward

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would meet Iran’s leaders “anytime they want.” The President adding that he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani without preconditions, and after high-profile ...

July 31, 2018 | Daniel Hoffman

In a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump reiterated his view that meeting with other world leaders is important, and again characterized his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir ...

July 26, 2018 | The Cipher Brief Staff

Bottom Line: In the past decade, Iran’s cyber capabilities have evolved from a tool used to lash out against domestic opponents of the Islamic Republic to a central pillar of ...

July 24, 2018 | Norman T. Roule

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s comments on Sunday about Iran and its leadership ignited a war of words between the U.S. and Iran with President Trump weighing in via Twitter, ...

July 23, 2018 | The Cipher Brief

Few would argue that in a world of consistent, emerging cyber threats, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer is one that requires a special kind of calm as ...

August 15, 2018 | Mark Kelton

In part two of 'The Coming Chinese Storm', former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence at the CIA's National Clandestine Service, Mark Kelton, lays out the Chinese threat to both the public ...

August 14, 2018 | Mark Kelton

A gifted intelligence officer with whom I worked was fond of pronouncing, “A storm is announced by a single breeze”.  That supposed Chinese saying was invariably invoked when we thought ...

August 13, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

Pakistan sits at a critical crossroads of U.S. Counterterrorism efforts, and geo-political strategy with China. Pakistan has elected a former cricket player, Imran Khan, as it’s newest Prime Minister.  Pakistan’s ...

August 10, 2018 | Anonymous

THE DUST-BINNEY OF HISTORY:  In July of last year a group of contrarian former government officials who call themselves “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity” (VIPS) came out with a theory that the ...

August 08, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

Iran hasn’t been the only target of U.S. sanctions in the past week.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered retaliatory sanctions again two unnamed U.S. officials after the U.S. ordered ...

August 06, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

A recent European Union report  offers an EU specific look at terrorism faced by member states in 2017.   A part of that report focused on terrorist financing, particularly on how money-laundering ...

August 02, 2018 | Cipher Brief Analysis

Up Front:  The U.S. government is taking on a more aggressive role in its mission to protect software supply chains from being infiltrated, as the government’s public-private cyber lead agency ...

August 01, 2018 | Jason Brodsky and Norman T. Roule

On July 28, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked 29 years since a referendum made his election official. Today, at 79 years old, he is still relatively young in ...

July 31, 2018 | Steven Ward

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would meet Iran’s leaders “anytime they want.” The President adding that he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani without preconditions, and after high-profile ...

July 26, 2018 | The Cipher Brief Staff

Bottom Line: In the past decade, Iran’s cyber capabilities have evolved from a tool used to lash out against domestic opponents of the Islamic Republic to a central pillar of ...

July 24, 2018 | Norman T. Roule

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s comments on Sunday about Iran and its leadership ignited a war of words between the U.S. and Iran with President Trump weighing in via Twitter, ...

July 23, 2018 | The Cipher Brief

Few would argue that in a world of consistent, emerging cyber threats, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer is one that requires a special kind of calm as ...