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North Korea's Statecraft-Cybercrime Nexus

by The Cipher Brief

While much of the focus on North Korea has been on efforts by the U.S. to negotiate a denuclearization deal, the cyber threat posed by Pyongyang remains a real threat, just out of view of the...

Global Cyber Challenges of the Future

by Robert Hannigan

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month in the U.S., an initiative started 15 years ago as a collaborative effort between the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security...

Opinion: Two Koreas Running Rings Around U.S.

by Tim Willasey-Wilsey

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with North Korea’s foreign minister on Wednesday and says he will visit Pyongyang next month to pave the way for a second summit between President Donald...

Expert Analysis: Fissures Between U.S., Europe and Iran at United Nations

by Norman T. Roule

President Donald Trump largely followed the U.S. policy script on Iran when he addressed the United Nations on Wednesday.  So what exactly, did the key players get out of the verbal back and forth...

Experts on U.S. National Cyber Strategy (cont'd)

by The Cipher Brief

In our first installment of expert reaction to the new National Cyber Strategy announced last Thursday, The Cipher Brief tapped a number of our experts, including former senior leaders from DHS, NSA,...

What the Experts Say About the National Cyber Strategy

The U.S. Administration released its new National Cyber Strategy on Thursday, covering a broad number of security-related issues that fall into four main categories, it refers to as...

The Pentagon's Cyber Strategy: What's New and What it Means

by Kate Charlet

On Wednesday, the Department of Defense (DoD) quietly released an unclassified summary and fact sheet on its 2018 Cyber Strategy, which replaces the 2015 DoD Cyber Strategy. Here are ten things you...

Putin's Bold Attempt to Deny Skripal Attack

by Mark Kelton

“The concept of plausible denial had an undeniable flavor of wishful thinking about it”, wrote CIA veteran William Hood in his book on Soviet military intelligence (GRU)[1] officer and CIA spy,...

War Crimes in Yemen

by Paul Pillar

The war in Yemen has been for some time one of the worst current man-made humanitarian disasters. Now comes a report, from the United Nations Human Rights Council and based on extensive...

North Korea Brief II: Critical Allied Relationships

by Joseph DeTrani

In part two of The Cipher Brief’s Expert Briefing on North Korea, Ambassador Joseph DeTrani focuses on the critical relationships with allies and partners and how sometimes competing agendas...