At Paris Olympics, Americans and Israelis Top List of Security Worries
Editor’s Note: This story was published just hours before a series of arson attacks struck France’s high-speed rail network. Access all of The Cipher Brief’s […] More
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Protests and Unrest Sweep Through France
Bottom Line Up Front In response to France’s plans to overhaul the country’s pension system, protesters took to the streets last week in growing […] More
The Globalization of Local Protests: The Case of France’s ‘Yellow Vests’
Bottom Line Up Front For the ninth weekend in a row, protesters gathered in massive numbers in Paris and other French cities as part […] More
Paris and the Prospects & Perils of a Post-American Order
Bottom Line Up Front As the recent World War I centenary tribute in Paris foreshadowed, the world order may be shifting, with the contours […] More
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Network of Terror Leads to Charging of Iranian Diplomat
German prosecutors have charged an Iranian diplomat with conspiracy to murder after counterterrorism officials say they averted a planned terrorist attack near Paris last month. […] More
Europe’s Terrorism Problem
Europe has become a strategic target for terrorist infiltration. Its proximity to war zones as well as several terrorist strongholds in the Middle East and […] More
Preventing Another Paris
According to Gilles De Kerchove, Counter-terrorism Coordinator for the European Union, effective cooperation and coordination between EU member states and the United States is critical […] More
Improving Transatlantic Cooperation
Mitch Silber, the former Director of Intelligence Analysis for NYPD, attributes Europe’s homegrown terrorist threat to Europe’s repeated failure to integrate immigrant communities and provide […] More
Privacy and Security after the Paris Attacks
Twelve days after the Paris attacks, I was waiting for a flight at London’s Heathrow Airport, which seemed to be running with its customary sedate […] More
General Michael Hayden on Security-Privacy Tradeoff
Here we go again. Security vs. privacy. Round n. Of course, I’m referring to the aftermath of the horrific ISIS attacks in Paris. What did […] More
After Paris, Encryption Debate Rages
The debate about “Going Dark” has reignited following the tragic attacks in Paris last week. There have been claims the terrorists used encrypted communications to […] More
The Paris Attacks
Intelligence failure: those are two words we often hear following a devastating terrorist attack such as what we saw this weekend in Paris. Almost by […] More
A Malignant Cancer
The Cipher Brief spoke with Rob Richer, CIA’s former Associate Deputy Director for Operations, about the terrorist attacks in Paris. Richer spoke about the importance […] More
A Shift in Strategy
The Paris attacks last Friday demonstrated ISIS ability to strike in the heart of Western Europe. Kevin Hulbert, a former senior intelligence officer in the […] More
The Impact of Leaks
The Cipher Brief sat down with General Keith Alexander, former Director of the National Security Agency. Alexander discussed the Paris attacks, the impact of the […] More
Protecting Your City
Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was preparing for his new post-NYPD role as Vice Chair at K2 Intelligence in New York when […] More
Just the Beginning
Over the course of the last 18 months, since ISIS burst on to the scene with its dramatic regional tactical advances, capturing Mosul in Iraq […] More
Time to Wake Up
ISIS is part of the multi-generational struggle against radical Islam which will likely dominate the first half of the 21st century similar to the fight […] More
ISIS on the March
Conventional wisdom among Western officials indicated ISIS was primarily interested in gaining territory for its caliphate or Islamic state. Big bold attacks against Western targets […] More