Sir Alex Younger died earlier this week at the age of 62. He had been fighting cancer for some time. Alex was Chief of the Secret Intelligence [...]
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I don't want to write about Sir Alex Younger, my predecessor as Chief of SIS.I want to write about my friend.I had known about Alex's cancer from the [...]
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I don't want to write about Sir Alex Younger, my predecessor as Chief of SIS.I want to write about my friend.I had known about Alex's cancer from the [...]
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There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core problems. We [...]
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There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core problems. We [...]
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OPINION — “The FBI requests $7 million to procure and deploy a digital watermarking solution capable of embedding unique digital forensic watermarks [...]
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OPINION — “The FBI requests $7 million to procure and deploy a digital watermarking solution capable of embedding unique digital forensic watermarks [...]
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OPINION -- On February 9, the CIA announced a major overhaul of its technology acquisition from the private sector. Director John Ratcliffe described [...]
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I spent twenty years at the FBI supporting investigations into cybercrime, tracking ransomware gangs, and watching foreign adversaries tear through [...]
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Australia is entering one of the most complex and psychologically destabilizing security periods in its modern history. The ASIO Director‑General’s [...]
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Six weeks into Operation Epic Fury, with airstrikes having killed a sitting supreme leader, wiped out scores of top military and intelligence [...]
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“The use cases that help to drive the research agenda can come from a variety of different settings…We need to acknowledge that it's okay for those [...]
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The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years later, there [...]
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Africa presents a range of security, economic, and humanitarian challenges to US national security that the Intelligence Community must stay ahead of [...]
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Not long ago, I was talking to an old friend and China analyst about the need for Intelligence Community (IC) analysts to spend significantly more [...]
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It is time to reimagine the US intelligence community (IC). The 1947 National Security Act established the CIA which arguably had the biggest impact [...]
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The US Intelligence Community (IC) is experiencing tumult and facing critique, and all things point to significant reform, creating an opening for [...]
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OPINION -- In his recent Cipher Brief essay, CIA's Latest Existential Challenge, former CIA senior officer Mark Kelton argues that the Central [...]
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OPINION — As we approach the April 2024 expiration of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), it is heartening to see a [...]
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