Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems
Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors
Cisco
The Islamic Republic of Iran Attacks U.S. and Allied Critical Infrastructure
Iranian hackers are targeting industrial equipment and causing operational disruptions to multiple types of critical infrastructure, warned the U.S. government on April 7. Despite the ceasefire announced...
Insights
Using Shutdown as Cover, Suspected Chinese Hackers Target the Congressional Budget Office
While President Donald Trump raved about his meeting with Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping in South Korea on October 30, it was business as usual for Beijing, targeting Washington’s secrets and security...
Policy Briefs
Arming Consumers With Cybersecurity Data Can Protect U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month approved the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program, a voluntary cybersecurity labeling initiative for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This much-needed...
Policy Briefs
Information Communications Technologies (ICT) Supply Chain Strategy
Legislative Testimonies
How Silicon Valley Engineered China’s Protest Crackdowns
American software and equipment—from companies like Microsoft and Oracle—is deeply embedded throughout China’s police state.
Op-eds
Washington must act to build capable federal cybersecurity workforce
With the U.S. facing a reported cybersecurity personnel shortage of at least 700,000 workers, the White House’s July workforce summit set the appropriately ambitious goal of filling those vacancies. The...
Op-eds
How Many Seconds in a Second? Why Keeping Time on Computers Is Hard and Why It Matters
Memos
Washington’s Huawei Ban Combats Chinese Espionage Threat
President Trump issued an executive order on Wednesd...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Government Hit by Major Iranian Cyber Operation
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an emergency directive on Tuesday to all federal agencies to take immediate steps to combat a...
Policy Briefs
Tearing Down Iran’s Electronic Curtain
Western companies have provided the technology that enables Tehran's Internet censorship.
Op-eds
Tearing Down Iran’s Electronic Curtain
Western companies have provided the technology that enables Tehran's Internet oppression.
Op-eds
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Debunking the transformational power of internet freedom.
Op-eds
Chinese Blind Spot
Investigating Chinese surveillance is a rather lonely job. For all the dissidents yammering about dramatic arrests and torture and harvesting of organs, you can’t really guarantee publicati...
Op-eds
Carrying a Torch for China
Skip the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, Mr. President.
Op-eds
Hacker Nation: China’s Cyber Assault
A decade before Operation Aurora—China’s recent hacking spree of at least thirty-four Western companies—the Chinese government attempted to seize American computer code th...
Op-eds
Google vs. Beijing
Western corporations never die in China, they just fade away. They don't do what Google has threatened to do: Slam the door on its way out. Google's decision to stop censoring its Chine...
Op-eds
Carrying a Torch for China
London
It was my four-year-old son's first demonstration. But he was getting cold, the police were manhandling the Tibetans to the point that there might be a stampede, and I wasn't sure if the bus that had just rushed by at such an unseemly speed actually carried the stupid torch, so we headed for the tube and home. My son wanted to know why people kept saying "China, stop the kitty."
Op-eds
Human Rights in China
“Human Rights in China” House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations Testimony of Ethan Gutm...
Op-eds
Aiding the Policenet
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiti...