Cyberspace Solarium Commission

November 3, 2025 | Nicholas Leiserson, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Don’t let Congress punt on cyber insurance reform

The cyber incidents in the headlines aren’t acts of cyber terror.

October 22, 2025 | Jiwon Ma, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

2025 Annual Report on Implementation

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October 9, 2025 | Sophie McDowall |

Recipe for Success: Guidance Based on the Experience of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission

Guidance Based on the Experience of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission ...

October 8, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

America’s Critical Infrastructure at Risk

Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries probe our critical infrastructure every day. Yet, two programs...

September 3, 2025 | Sophie McDowall, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Cutting Cyber Intelligence Undermines National Security

America’s cyber intelligence capabilities are being eviscerated while the threats to national security emanating from cyber space are increasing. The latest cuts to the cyber capabilities within the...

August 28, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

5 Urgent Tasks for the New National Cyber Director

The new chief of U.S. cyber policymaking, Sean Cairncross, brings to the table extensive experience gained as a former adviser to the White House chief of staff and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation,...

July 9, 2025 | Samantha Ravich, Johanna Yang

Medical Devices Still Vulnerable to Hacking Despite New FDA Guidance

Machines such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, and vital signs monitors are the difference between life and death for millions of people, and they are all vulnerable to cyberattack. In its effort to protect...

June 30, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

An Urgent Call to Close the Loopholes on Chips and China

The core lessons from the Cold War should guide us as we face the new “Axis of Aggressors” today. First among these, is that we need to win the technology race. Advanced technology made in United...

June 20, 2025 | Dr. Erica Lonergan, Jiwon Ma

The Pentagon knows its cyber force model is broken. Here’s how to fix it

More than two decades after declaring cyberspace a warfighting domain, the U.S. military relies on an inefficient and ineffective solution to generate the capabilities needed to defend it.

June 17, 2025 | Nick Leiserson |

How a Government Reinsurance Program Can Accelerate Maturation of the Cyber Insurance Market

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May 15, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions

Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan

April 29, 2025 | Annie Fixler |

Shaping the Future of Cyber Diplomacy

Review for State Department Reauthorization

March 26, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler, Joe Dougherty

CSC 2.0 Report on Military Mobility

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March 13, 2025 | Alison King, Annie Fixler, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

US must prioritize cybersecurity training for the military’s engineers

The Defense Department faces a startling capability gap.

March 13, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

SOLARIUM TURNS FIVE

This week marks the five-year anniversary of the release of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s original March 2020 report, a blueprint that has reshaped U.S. cybersecurity strategy and policymaking....

March 4, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Craig Singleton, Johanna Yang, Jack Burnham

Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain

Unmanned Aircraft Systems

February 12, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler, Jiwon Ma

National Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan 

February 10, 2025 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense

President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...

February 3, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Isaac A. Harris

Biden Started a Process to Protect US National Security from China. Trump Should Finish It.

For years, warning lights have been flashing around the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) drive to assert global dominance and reshape international governance in the likeness of its own oppressive regime....

January 22, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Unconstrained Actors

Assessing Global Cyber Threats to the Homeland