Coming Soon: A Supreme Court Ruling on TikTok, China and National Security
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — Does Chinese ownership of the wildly popular TikTok app pose a national security risk to the United States? And if so, what should […] More
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Memo To US Startups: China Wants Your IP (and There Are Ways To Stop Them)
EXPERT INTERVIEW — The race between China and the U.S. for tech supremacy gets fiercer by the day. In the latest salvo, the U.S. this […] More
The Undersea Cable War Hits Taiwan
EXPERT INTERVIEW — Undersea cables have been dominating the headlines in recent months – specifically, repeated episodes in which damage has been done to this unseen […] More
Does the US Defense Establishment Need a ‘Paradigm Shift’?
EXPERT INTERVIEW — The U.S. starts the new year with a daunting set of challenges in the national security space – from global conflicts to terrorism […] More
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8 Global Security Questions For 2025
SPECIAL REPORT — Given how unpredictable 2024 proved to be – did anyone foresee the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, the decapitation of Hezbollah, an invasion of […] More
How Many ‘Wake-Up Calls’ Will it Take for US to Counter China Cyberattacks?
EXPERT INTERVIEW — The U.S. Treasury Department closed 2024 with the announcement that state-sponsored hackers from China had breached its systems in a “major incident.” The hackers […] More
Innovations and Risks – 7 Things to Watch in Cyber-Tech in 2025
SPECIAL REPORT — In 2025, technological advances will continue to reshape industries, transform national security strategies, and fuel global competition. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will expand its […] More
Cipher Brief Experts on What to Watch for in 2025
EXPERT INSIGHT – In the waning days of 2024, The Cipher Brief asked members of our expert network to look to the year ahead, and […] More
2024: 10 Great Cipher Brief Conversations
SPECIAL REPORT — In a year of world-changing events – from the Middle East to Ukraine, cyberattacks to undersea cable attacks, and much more – The […] More
National Security Experts Share Reasons for Hope in 2025
SPECIAL REPORT – In the last days of 2024, The Cipher Brief turned to our network of experts – who spend much of their time […] More
2024: 10 Events That Changed The World
SPECIAL REPORT — As we look back at the major national and global security events of 2024, it’s tempting to overuse certain words: stunning; staggering; […] More
‘Straight Talk’ on China’s Offensives in the American Homeland
EXPERT VIEW — 2024 has brought multiple reminders of the threats – real and potential – posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Over the […] 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 breach of American telecommunications […] 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 infrastructure pose the gravest cyber […] More
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
Former NSA Director of Cybersecurity on Transformative Power of AI
OPINION — When it comes to national security and artificial intelligence (AI), this much is clear: AI will significantly transform the national security landscape, in ways […] More
Cybersecurity: Doomed To Fail?
OPINION — The most recent Cipher Brief Threat Conference was better than ever, providing a unique opportunity to get a full sense of what’s truly “top […] 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 — were severed this week. Several […] More
Wanted: A Plan to Secure America’s Railroads Against Cyberattacks
OPINION — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a proposed cybersecurity rule on November 6 that would “require the establishment of pipeline and railroad cyber risk […] More