5 cyber issues the next presidential administration needs to prioritize immediately
The next administration must do better on cyber than previous ones, two experts behind a new McCrary Institute and Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 report argue.
Government Accountability Office
Public-Private Cyber Collaboration Needs Enhanced Real-Time Data Sharing
A House committee last month passed a bill to codify in law the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) collaboration initiative. If signed into...
Policy Briefs
The Campus Antisemite’s Secret Weapon
Protesters were breaking glass and shouting “Intifada! Intifada!” at Berkeley just a few weeks ago. Following the October 7 terror attack on Israel, antisemites at many American colleges...
Op-eds
Northern Mali clans swear allegiance to JNIM
Over the weekend, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch in the Sahel and much of West Africa, published photos showing several notables from various local clans in northern...
Op-eds
Cyber Insurance Settlements Leave Big Questions Unresolved
Major snack distributor Mondelez reached a settlement this month with its insurer, Zurich, after a five-year legal battle over whether the insurance company would cover losses Mondelez suffered from the...
Policy Briefs
Harden the cybersecurity of US nuclear complex now
Deterrence is only as good as it is credible
Op-eds
The cybersecurity risk to our water supply is real. We need to prepare.
It’s rare that four government agencies issue a joint advisory on a potential threat to the basic health and welfare of the entire U.S. population. But that’s what happened in October when the...
Op-eds
Beijing Sprints While America Slumbers
What another continuing resolution means for our military preparedness.
Op-eds
Any reduction in Energy Department’s cybersecurity resources a mistake
Excerpt In March, a bipartisan group of senators led by Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine) sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm expressing support for the department’s...
Op-eds
Congress Must Oversee Renewed Assistance to the Palestinians
The Biden administration this week restarted assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The new direct assistance to the Palestinians includes $75 million in economic and development assistance in the...
Policy Briefs
Russia-Iran cooperation poses challenges for US cyber strategy, global norms
Russia and Iran inked an agreement last month on information security, a term that in Russian strategic doctrine encompasses not only cyber but information and communications technology (ICT) more broadly....
Op-eds
A Cyber Opportunity: Priorities For The First National Cyber Director
Despite the negative headlines surrounding the SolarWinds hack, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will soon inherit an executive branch moving slowly in the right direction...
Op-eds
Taking on China – Breaking Down the FY21 NDAA
At its core, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA), which passed the House on Tuesday by a veto-proof majority, seeks to strengthen deterrence initiatives involving China and...
Insights
Congress Poised To Enact Unprecedented Cyber Defense Legislation
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) is the most significant attempt ever undertaken by Congress to improve national cybersecurity and protect U.S. critical infrastructure...
Insights
Modernize The National Guard’s State Partnership Program
Low-key deployments by citizen-soldiers have strengthened ties with 89 nations – but some crucial partners are missing.
Op-eds
Another way UN corruption is empowering China
There’s a new cop on the corruption beat at the United Nations: the Chinese Communist Party. China this month quietly ascended to the U.N.’s top oversight panel in a move that should prompt the United...
Op-eds
Analysis: Islamic State claims Al Qaeda started a war in West Africa
The Islamic State claims in the latest edition of its weekly Al-Naba newsletter that Al Qaeda started a “war” against the so-called caliphate’s men in West Africa. Independent reporting confirms...
Op-eds
Lebanese Armed Forces must act against Hezbollah to retain America’s military aid
As Lebanon struggles with an economic crisis and the new coronavirus pandemic, momentum is building in Washington to curtail or end U.S. assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces. Such a move could diminish...
Op-eds
Congress Sends Defense Authorization Bill to President
The Senate voted 86-8 on Tuesday to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, sending the bill – which had already passed 377-48 in the House – to the president for...
Policy Briefs
How Trump Can Help the Palestinians and Promote Peace
Speaking at a summit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Davos on Thursday, President Donald Trump ripped into his Palestinian counterpart. He threatened to withhold American assist...