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5 Ways Iran Is Exploiting AI in Warfare

The Islamic Republic of Iran has quietly become one of the world’s most aggressive adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) for warfare, deception, and repression. Tehran’s strategy is coherent and...

Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems

Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors

America Can’t Reindustrialize on Chinese Batteries

Washington has learned, often the hard way, that supply chains once treated as purely commercial can carry real national security consequences. Huawei exposed that risk in telecommunications. Chinese drones...

America’s Cyber Strategy Has a Budget Problem

The threat from cyberattacks has never been more acute, but there is reason to worry America is not rising to the challenge. It is not the lack of a cybersecurity strategy, but rather a growing...

Why the government must accelerate quantum preparedness now

Somewhere in the United States right now, a water treatment facility is running control systems that a quantum computer will eventually be able to compromise, and there is no federal deadline requiring...

The Imperative for the Connected Built Environment

As information technology and operational technology converge into a cyber-physical systems across the built environment, professional engineers must now account for a category of public safety risk that...

The Risks of Chinese-Produced Cellular Modules

How an Iranian Cyberattack Hit US Local Governments

Congress must restore funding and coordination to defend against escalating Iranian cyber threats targeting the United States.

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...

What the 2026 Intelligence Assessment Gets Right—and Wrong

The US intelligence assessment identifies key threats but understates cyber risks and China’s Taiwan strategy, leaving US policymakers ill-prepared for emerging conflicts.

Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

The White House is making a significant effort toward putting the nation’s cyber house in order. A newly released National Cyber Strategy represents a big step in the right direction for U.S. national...

Iran and proxies continue attacking energy facilities, residential areas, and Arab capitals (March 24–27 updates)

Between March 24 and March 27, Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones and missiles against Arab countries. The attacks targeted energy infrastructure, airports, military facilities, ports,...

Iranian Cyber Operations Take Advantage of Weakened U.S. Defenses

The agency responsible for defending against Iranian cyberattacks is running at less than half strength, so perhaps cyber strikes against two U.S. healthcare companies in two weeks should not be surprising....

Cyber information sharing must be fixed – or our adversaries reap the benefits

Over the past year America’s public-private cybersecurity partnerships have been damaged by a double whammy of administration and legislative lethargy. In March, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dismantled a...

China Wants To Switch Off Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure

Chinese cyberattacks against Taiwan’s critical infrastructure have risen over the past year, according to Taiwan’s National Security Bureau’s (NSB) annual assessment. In its efforts to undermine...

Space Modernization for the 21st Century

Critical Orbit: The Case for Designating Space as National Infrastructure in the Cyber Age

The United States has sixteen designated critical infrastructure sectors, including water, healthcare, finance, and the defense industrial base. These sectors provide “the essential services that underpin American society.” The Patriot Act of 2001 defines critical infrastructure as “Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.”

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