Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

The North Korean Crypto Threat

Excerpt North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “DPRK”) presents a fundamental and growing international security challenge – and now represents the most serious nation-state risk...

2022 Annual Report on Implementation

Cyber Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices Put Patients at Risk

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed the public comment period earlier this month on draft cybersecurity guidance for new medical devices after receiving more than a thousand comments from patients,...

A Tool to Manage Cyber Risk: SBOMs and Security Through Transparency

‘The Lazarus Heist’ Is the Gripping Story of North Korean Cybercrime

Worryingly, Washington’s concern does not rise to the level of the danger.

Washington must do more to support companies facing Russian hackers

As Russian missiles fly, President Vladimir Putin has warned that those countries that aid Ukraine will face consequences like they have never seen before. The United States and its European allies, however,...

The U.S. Must Prepare to Withstand a Cyberattack

Congress gave the Biden administration two years to develop a strategy. One year in, there is little evidence that the work has started.

Elemental Strategy

Countering the Chinese Communist Party’s Efforts to Dominate the Rare Earth Industry

Lawmakers Underscore the Importance of a Plan for Continuity of the Economy

In two separate letters last month, members of Congress urged President Joe Biden to develop a strategy for creating and implementing a Continuity of the Economy (COTE) plan, which would aim to ensure the...

Poor Cybersecurity Makes Water a Weak Link in Critical Infrastructure

U.S. Leads International Efforts to Attribute China’s Microsoft Hack

In an unprecedented show of international coordination, the United States, European Union, and NATO last week attributed the recent hack of Microsoft’s Exchange Server and other “malicious cyber activity”...

Cyber Hygiene 101 for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses

The Economic Costs of Cyber Risk

The US Needs to Impose Costs on China for Its Economic Warfare

The linchpin of a more effective deterrence is developing a more effective way to hurt the Chinese Communist Party if it will not stop hurting the United States.

China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan Shows Need for Renewed US Commitment to Internet Governance

China released its 14th Five-Year plan for economic development last month, including its intended next steps in technology. The blueprint makes clear that, even before the ink is dry on many 5G contracts...

Did China cross a new red line in cyberspace?

The Mumbai hack showed complete disregard for collateral damage.

Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

North Korean Hackers Could Ramp Up Cyberattacks on COVID-19 Targets in Near Future

During a closed-door parliamentary session on Tuesday, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) informed the National Assembly that North Korea’s state-sponsored hackers are attacking South...

DOJ Charges Reveal North Korean Cybercrime and Money Laundering Schemes

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday indicted three North Korean cyber operatives and a Canadian-American money launderer for numerous cyberattacks against banks, virtual currency exchanges,...

Elevating ‘deterrence by denial’ in US defense strategy

The United States is at a critical strategic juncture. At the systemic level, changes in the distribution of military and economic power signal that the American unipolar moment has passed. Protecting US...