Intelligence Community Help Wanted: Open Source Ninjas
OPINION – For those who have been privileged enough to read, write for, or brief the Intelligence Community’s President’s Daily Brief (PDB), the following quote […] More
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The Tradecraft Around New Open Source
OPINION — Publicly Available Information (PAI), and its related discipline Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), have long been perceived in government as less vital to national […] More
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
How Emerging AI Technologies Can Help Us Think ‘Smarter’
Every morning, analysts, operators, and policymakers arrive at their desks to read the latest news and intelligence reporting that has come in during the past […] More
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NGA Deputy Director: ‘Data is the New Black’
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Susan Gordon on Wednesday called for the government and Intelligence Community to prioritize innovation to better confront the broad array […] More
Leaks Emerge as a Central Issue in Russia Election Probe
If there has been one constant in President Donald Trump’s administration, it is the steady stream of leaks of classified information. As investigators dig into […] More
Insider Threats: A Big Data Problem for Big Defense
Stranded during a historic Washington-area blizzard in February 2010, a U.S. soldier embarked on a mission that he had sworn to not fulfill: “…I joined […] More
Security and Privacy are Not Mutually Exclusive
The interesting thing about the Apple vs. FBI encryption debate is that that there is little disagreement that encryption is a valuable tool for protecting […] More
Will Information Sharing Improve Cybersecurity?
One of the key lessons of 2015 was that cybersecurity is more important than ever – a lesson that Sony and the Office of Personnel […] More
The Public-Private Partnership: A Two-Way Street
Countering cyber-threats can be difficult, and information sharing has come to be seen as a constructive way to attack the problem. Elaine Lammert, a former […] More
Threat Intelligence Sharing: A Public Good
Threat intelligence sharing has a complex history within the security industry. The premise is simple: cybercriminals will often launch attacks with similar components, using the […] More
Information Sharing: Not a Panacea
Late last year, the text of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) found its way into a consolidated spending bill and was signed into law […] More
Going Dark
The government is in a bind – it wants to stop criminals and terrorists, but it also wants to support strong encryption. Navigating this quandary […] More
An Absurd Argument
The private sector perspective on encryption technology is critical to understanding the crux of the debate. Amid news that Dell had agreed to buy RSA’s […] More
Going Dark
Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, sat down with The Cipher Brief to explain why he believes a secure communications […] More
Public Policy Tradeoff
When the Clinton Administration decontrolled encryption in the late 1990s after a long and acrimonious debate, it did so because it had decided that the […] More
The Encryption Debate
“Are we so mistrustful of government—and of law enforcement—that we are willing to let bad guys walk away…willing to leave victims in search of justice?” […] More
Lawful Hacking
According to press reports, the White House has considered and rejected four options to address the so-called “going dark” problem where the growing ubiquity of […] More
Government and Industry Need to Work Together
Mike Rogers is a former Congressman who served as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a discussion with The Cipher […] More