Tech/Cyber

China continues to deploy military equipment to contested islands in the South China Sea, raising concerns among regional players and U.S. forces stationed in the […] More

In September 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama reached an agreement that neither nation would “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of […] More

China is a burgeoning great power. It is continually figuring out the various dimensions of power – not least of which is power in cyberspace […] More

Connectivity continues to enmesh businesses, governments, societies and people – a trend that will only accelerate with the growth of public cloud services and devices […] More

In the world of network security, the term air gap refers to a situation in which the computer network is physically separated from other networks, […] More

An air gap – meaning, a computer without direct network access of any kind – seems like the perfect solution to the gossamer threads of […] More

European countries are becoming increasingly wary of foreign disinformation and subversion operations in their own internal politics following Russian interference in last year’s U.S. elections. […] More

Where will Russian President Vladimir Putin strike next? With the 2018 Russian election around the corner, former Soviet states are nervous. Foreign adventures are the […] More

Russian offensive cyber capabilities are as sophisticated as those of other major cyber powers, such as the United States and China, and they likely exceed […] More

In 2013, former President Barack Obama was close to ending the “dual-hat” leadership of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, only to […] More

There as been discussion of a separation between the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command for a while, only for the change in administrations […] More

Security researchers and policymakers around the world are struggling with the challenge of securing the digital networks that governments, private companies, and people in general […] More

Cyberspace is often portrayed as a new domain of international relations – a Wild West where there are no rules or guiding principles to govern […] More

NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence last month published the Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations, a follow-on project […] More

A group of international law experts met in Tallinn, Estonia, after the 2007 onslaught of cyber attacks against sites in the country, to create the […] More

Cyber operations remain at the forefront of confrontations between the West and Moscow as relations continue to deteriorate. Russia asserted itself in 2007 with “patriotic […] More

Understanding the Russian criminal underground is essential when discussing Russian proxies in cyberspace. How do cybercriminal entities interact with each other and what is their […] More

What if network defenders knew that a cyber operation occurred during Moscow business hours, that it involved a Russian IP address, and that the cyber […] More