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Rogg's History of Intelligence: Insightful, But Incomplete

BOOK REVIEW: The Spy and the State: The History of American IntelligenceBy Jeffrey P. Rogg / Oxford University PressReviewed by: Jason U. [...] More

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Now is the Time to Split NSA and CYBERCOM

OPINION — Recent news of another audacious hack against the US critical infrastructure and interests overseas—this time from the Chinese-based “Volt [...] More

Cyber is the New Weapons System of the Future

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The [...] More

When it comes to Cyberattacks, Can we really just talk it out?

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

Tracking U.S. Engagement in Undeclared Warfare

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

The Case for Powerful, Intermittent Cyber Response

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More
Washington's Cyber Reckoning

Washington's Cyber Reckoning

As Washington continues to investigate the true depth of what experts are describing as one of the most damaging cyberattacks in U.S. history, both [...] More
The New Dynamic Cyber Threat Environment

The New Dynamic Cyber Threat Environment

An attempted cyberattack on Israel’s water system in late April, just months after the global pandemic hit, prompted fears that cyber adversaries are [...] More
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After Persistent Cyber Engagement Comes Gates, Guards and Guns

This Cyber Viewpoint comes from James Van de Velde, Associate Professor at the National Intelligence University as well as Adjunct Faculty at Johns [...] More

An Intelligence Officer's Guide to Dissent

(Editor's note - Thursday, August 15 is the last day of work for Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and his Principal Deputy Director Susan [...] More
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NSA's New Directorate Expected to Strengthen Offensive Capabilities

NSA Director General Paul Nakasone announced last week that he is creating a new cybersecurity directorate that will focus on – among other things – [...] More

When Cyberweapons Escape

Bottom Line Up FrontIn 2017, the National Security Agency lost control of a cyberweapon known as EternalBlue, leaked online by a group known as 'the [...] More

Christian Pike's Ultimate Sacrifice

Rick Ledgett served as the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency from January 2014 until his retirement in April 2017, culminating a nearly [...] More