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Inside the Policy Failure Putting America’s Critical Infrastructure at Risk

OPINION — Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries [...] More

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U.S. Cyber Defense Starts with Defining Standards and Driving Collaboration

OPINION — President Donald J. Trump has returned to office with the renewed revelations that Chinese government-affiliated hackers continue to [...] More

To Counter China, Reform U.S. Intelligence for the Digital Age

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION -- The United States is facing a quiet and rapidly growing threat across the digital landscape, an unseen mathematical [...] More

The Next War Won’t Target Cities, It Will Target Choke Points.

OPINION — In the age of strategic disruption, critical infrastructure is both the terrain and the target. The West’s optimization of systems for [...] More

Taiwan Faces China Threats From Sea and Cyber

Taiwan Faces China Threats From Sea and Cyber

EXPERT INTERVIEW — While much of the world’s attention in recent weeks has been on Europe, and the U.S. tilt to Russia in its pursuit for an end to [...] More

Tariffs Overlook Gray Zone Threats Posed by China

OPINION — The recent tariffs against China are obviously getting a lot of attention. China is a major trading partner, so the idea of an escalating [...] More

How is War Fought in the Gray Zone?

Beth Sanner is a principal member of The Cipher Brief’s Gray Zone Group, a gathering of experts focused on raising awareness of adversarial [...] More

NSA Director: Salt Typhoon 'Not the Highest-end Operation That We've Seen'

CYBER INTERVIEW – National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Timothy Haugh said Thursday that U.S. cyber defenses didn’t see China’s recent [...] More

Top U.S. Cybersecurity Official: China Attacks on American Infrastructure ‘Tip of the Iceberg’

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — A top U.S. cybersecurity official said Wednesday that as she prepares to leave office, China-backed attacks on American [...] More

Undersea Sabotage Threatens Cables Connecting the World

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Deep in the Baltic Sea, two undersea fiber-optic telecommunications cables — linking Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania — [...] More

Cyber Threat to US Critical Infrastructure: Dangers in ‘Weakest Links’

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS — As the cyber threat environment grows more complex and daunting by the day, the U.S. intelligence community is racing to [...] More