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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 [...] More

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Preparing for Great Power Competition in AI and Intelligence

Preparing for Great Power Competition in AI and Intelligence

A Virtual BriefingWednesday, March 2, 2022, 1:30-2:30pm ESTThis discussion will cover the promise of AI, the growing importance of Open Source to the [...] More
Mapping China by the Numbers: Toward a Government Data Ecosystem

Mapping China by the Numbers: Toward a Government Data Ecosystem

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British [...] More
What the Intelligence Community Doesn't Know is Hurting the US

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 [...] 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 [...] More
NGA Deputy Director: ‘Data is the New Black’

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 [...] More
Leaks Emerge as a Central Issue in Russia Election Probe

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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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
Will Information Sharing Improve Cybersecurity?

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 Management learned [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] More