What's Up at The Cipher Brief: A Letter from the CEO & Publisher

What’s Up at The Cipher Brief: A Letter from the CEO & Publisher

Posted: February 1st, 2018

By Suzanne Kelly

Suzanne Kelly is CEO and publisher of The Cipher Brief as well as founder of the Cyber Initiatives Group. Before entering the private sector, she served as CNN’s Intelligence Correspondent before spending two years in the private sector. Prior to this, she worked as an executive producer for CNN and as a news anchor at CNN International based in Berlin and Atlanta. In Berlin, Suzanne anchored a morning news program broadcast live in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and in Atlanta, she anchored a number of world news programs. She covered the NATO campaign in 1999 from Kosovo and Macedonia.

I launched this company two and a half years ago on a very simple idea: let’s get a talented, experienced and vetted group of experts and professionals together to create a well-informed, dynamic national security debate based on non-partisan news reporting and analysis. And let’s create a dialogue with the private sector, in ways that haven’t been done before, since they are a critical part of addressing difficult and emerging threats.

Today, I’m incredibly proud to say that The Cipher Brief has one of the most influential and well-informed readerships in the world, supported by a bench of seasoned experts who share their perspectives on everything from how politics is impacting national security to Russian election meddling to North Korea’s growing capabilities, and emerging cyber proxy wars. These top-level professionals have led agencies, briefed Presidents and even worked undercover in parts of the world that are key to the national security of the U.S. and its allies.

“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by formers.” —Sept. 2018, Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 62

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