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 […] More
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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
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 […] More
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 world, national security […] More
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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 Information and Communications […] More
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
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 from Dmitri […] More
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 meager results. Accordingly, […] More
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 industry. In 2024, […] More
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 disinformation to affect the outcome. […] More