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Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

Sophie McDowall

Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

OPINION — The White House is making a significant effort toward putting the nation’s cyber house in order. A newly released National Cyber Strategy [...] More

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Abrupt Changes at the top of the National Security Agency Risk Destabilization
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Abrupt Changes at the top of the National Security Agency Risk Destabilization

EXCLUSIVE CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The Cipher Brief was the first to report on Thursday in the weekly Dead Drop column that Director of the National [...] More

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An Exclusive Chat with Cyber Legend Dan Geer

Teresa Shea

An Exclusive Chat with Cyber Legend Dan Geer

EXPERT Q&A — Cyber Initiatives Group Principal and Former Director of Signals Intelligence at NSA, Teresa Shea sat down this week with Dan Geer, a [...] More

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The Human Impact of International Cybercrime Laws

Christian Ohanian

The Human Impact of International Cybercrime Laws

OPINION — At the age of seven, my great-grandfather was one of the few members of his family to survive the Armenian Genocide. As a small child, he [...] More

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National Security Lessons from Crowdstrike's Global Disaster
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National Security Lessons from Crowdstrike's Global Disaster

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS – As the world gets back online after a global outage that impacted some 8.5 million individual devices around the [...] More

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The UN Cybercrime Convention is Digital Solidarity's First Real Test

Gary Corn

The UN Cybercrime Convention is Digital Solidarity's First Real Test

OPINION — Earlier this year, the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of [...] More

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Unpacking the National Cyber Director's Posture Report

Frank Cilluffo

Unpacking the National Cyber Director's Posture Report

OPINION / CYBER INITIATIVES GROUP — The 2024 Report on the Cybersecurity Posture of the United States, released by the Office of the National Cyber [...] More

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The Munich Dispatches: Europe Shifts to China

Dmitri Alperovitch

The Munich Dispatches: Europe Shifts to China

The Cipher Brief interviewed a number of national security experts on the sidelines of this year’s Munich Security Conference. Here are key takeaways [...] More

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Loose lips can still sink ships: Protect your Critical Information

Michael C. Casey

Loose lips can still sink ships: Protect your Critical Information

OPINION — In the early stages of the Vietnam War, Pentagon officials were puzzled why U.S. bombing missions against northern Vietnam were yielding [...] More

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A New Year Means Further Transformative Shifts in Cyber

Kelly Bissell

A New Year Means Further Transformative Shifts in Cyber

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — 2023 saw the start of a transformative shift in cybersecurity, bringing both new opportunities and new challenges to the [...] More

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Taiwan's Election Offers Strong Lessons on Disinformation

Walter Pincus

Taiwan's Election Offers Strong Lessons on Disinformation

OPINION — Taiwan’s Presidential election last Saturday took place amid widespread concerns that China would use Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven [...] More

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