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Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore

Andy Burnham was a few weeks into the job as the new Prime Minister of the UK when he found himself exchanging messages with someone claiming to be [...] More

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'This Doesn't Need to be Defeat. But at the Moment, it Damn Well Feels Like It'

Cipher Brief Expert Nick Fishwick CMG retired in 2012 after nearly thirty years in the British Foreign Service. He did postings in Lagos, Istanbul [...] More

Intelligence Sharing in a Complicated World: The Future of Five Eyes

Intelligence Sharing in a Complicated World: The Future of Five Eyes

In the midst of World War II, facing multiple threats in a complicated series of engagements around the world, the US and the UK entered into a [...] More

Why Cyber Criminals are Winning

Why Cyber Criminals are Winning

Cipher Brief Expert Alex Cresswell led an operational division of GCHQ and served in the Cabinet Office, directing the team of analysts (the Joint [...] More

Britain's Integrated Review: A Science and Tech Superpower with an Indo-Pacific Tilt

Britain's Integrated Review: A Science and Tech Superpower with an Indo-Pacific Tilt

Nick Fishwick,Former Senior Member, British Foreign Office[rebelmouse-image 56514744 expand=1 dam=1 alt="nick" site_id=26883708 [...] More

The UK's Next Steps on Cybersecurity

Conrad Prince served as the Director General for Operations and Deputy Director of GCHQ from 2008 – 2015. In those roles he led GCHQ’s intelligence [...] More

A New World of Global Security: A Briefing with Sir John Sawers

A New World of Global Security: A Briefing with Sir John Sawers

The new COVID-19 national security world is one shaped by a host of national and global security issues that were impacted – both good and bad – by [...] More

What a Biden Administration Means for the World

The Cipher Brief is a non-political media outlet focused on publishing expert perspectives on national security issues. We are committed to [...] More

ISIS Terrorists Known as ‘The Beatles’ To Face Justice in the United States

Bottom Line Up FrontEl Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, two ISIS members known as ‘The Beatles,’ will face justice in the United States for their [...] More

A Look Inside the Justice Department's National Security Priorities

A Look Inside the Justice Department's National Security Priorities

Last week, the Justice Department brought an indictment against two individuals accused of working with China’s Ministry of State Security to conduct [...] More

How Cyber Plays in Boardrooms of the Future

How Cyber Plays in Boardrooms of the Future

We know that corporate boards can no longer afford to leave cyber to the IT team. In the future, (which is now) they need to be actively engaged in [...] More

OSINT Global Trendline Report: COVID and the Americas

OSINT Global Trendline Report: COVID and the Americas

The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trend Line Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national [...] More

What we're learning about National Security from COVID-19

What we're learning about National Security from COVID-19

As of this writing, Johns Hopkins, is reporting more than 432,438 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US, and nearly 1.5m confirmed cases [...] More