Today’s Realities of doing Business with China
OPINION — Last Friday, while public attention was focused on Chinese military exercises around Taiwan and the vague threat of possible warfare, a Senate Foreign […] More
Business
What the Intelligence Community Doesn’t Know is Hurting the US
“The U.S. intelligence community must invest in understanding its own business model to make data-driven decisions for the future,” argue authors Katrina Mulligan, Cipher Brief […] More
Author Interview: Stan McChrystal on Leaders: Myth and Reality
Leaders: Myth and Reality, was a bestseller, even before it hit the bookstores. According to Amazon, the book being released today by General Stanley McChrystal […] More
The Evolution of Russian Subversion in Cyber: A Conversation with former GCHQ Chief David Omand
Twitter is releasing a trove of known accounts and posts that it says were used to meddle in U.S. elections dating back to 2016. According […] More
The Latest
The U.S.-China Cyber Agreement: A Good First Step
After years of the U.S. suffering losses valued in the billions of dollars due to economically-motivated cyber espionage from China, there are some signs that […] More
Global Internet Ecosystem – Urgent Action Required
Many metaphors have been applied to the Internet—information superhighway, World Wide Web, cyberspace, etc.—each evoking its different aspects. A more comprehensive view is that the […] More
Trust but Verify: The United States, China & Economic Espionage
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack raised the threat of Chinese cyber-espionage in a way that the American people had never seen before. American […] More
The Threat to Business
Bring-your-own-device culture is very convenient, but with a growing amount of malware targeting mobile devices, it is also creating new vulnerabilities. The Cipher Brief spoke […] More
Cybersecurity for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
With the proliferation of many advanced security tools, enterprise and C-Suite managers have recently turned to deploying the most fashionable, powerful, and popular tools on […] More
Steps You Should Take
Large businesses in the United States are putting substantial resources into protecting their information from cybersecurity threats. As a result, they are tougher targets for […] More
Understand Your Exposure
Justin Zeefe is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for the Nisos Group. Zeefe spoke with The Cipher Brief about the evolving cyber-threat and how […] More
Cybersecurity Insurance
Few businesses today would think of operating without liability, property, or workers’ compensation insurance and yet, according to a recent survey by CSO magazine, only […] More
From Bad to Worse
Professor Ming Sing of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology discussed with The Cipher Brief Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and its impact on the […] More
The Umbrella Movement: One Year Later
The democracy movement in Hong Kong is still alive, but the energy that brought almost one hundred thousand people to the streets last year has […] More
Bumpy Road Ahead
On September 28, protesters marked the anniversary of the start of last year’s Umbrella Revolution, in which 200,000 Hong Kongers took to the streets to […] More
Resiliency and Risk
Just one year ago, in the midst of the “Umbrella Protest Movement,” it seemed that Hong Kong’s position as the most business-friendly place in Asia […] More
Protecting Your Business
Heroes in war movies rally the troops by pronouncing: failure is not an option. Heroes at the forefront of cybersecurity know better: failure is practically […] More
Post-Incident Response
The ability of a business to respond with speed and agility after the discovery of a significant cyberattack is critical to its overall recovery and […] More
Threat Intelligence Capability
Josh Lefkowitz is the CEO of Flashpoint, a cyber threat intelligence firm that specializes in providing insights from the Deep and Dark Webs. Josh spoke […] More