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January 17, 2025 | Jiwon Ma, Maria Riofrio

PowerSchool Breach Highlights Growing Cybersecurity Risks in America’s Schools

PowerSchool, a cloud-based software provider for K-12 schools, confirmed on January 7 that hackers breached its systems late last year, affecting thousands of school districts across the United States...

July 4, 2024 | Antonette Bowman |

The Surprising National Security Role of America’s “Best Idea”

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former bodyguard, who once reportedly confronted a bear at a mountain retreat while Putin slept through the ordeal, was appointed secretary of the...

September 13, 2023 | Chris Inglis, Rep. James R. Langevin, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Cyber risk is business risk, and the SEC knows it 

A long overdue policy change to improve corporate governance on cybersecurity is taking effect. At the end of July, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules requiring...

March 3, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Samantha Ravich

We Have a New National Cybersecurity Strategy. Now What?

The new National Cybersecurity Strategy is clear and concise, laying out the case for a more robust and engaged approach to defending our national critical infrastructure from a growing list of threats...

April 4, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jack Sullivan

Priority #1 for NATO: Upgrading Air and Missile Defense in Eastern Europe

Russia’s launch of around 30 cruise missiles at a target in western Ukraine located just 12 miles from the Polish border came just one day after Moscow warned that convoys carrying Western arms...

March 18, 2022 | John Hardie, Matthew Zweig

U.S. Should Seize and Sell Assets of Sanctioned Russian Elites to Aid Ukraine

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would enable Washington to seize and sell assets of sanctioned Russian elites and then use the proceeds to support Ukraine. As Washington...

October 15, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, David May

Does Big Tech Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?

Employees at Google and Amazon launched a petition drive this week to persuade both companies to end their contracts with the world’s only Jewish state. Google and Amazon can send a powerful...

September 23, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

Treasury Takes Aim at Ransomware and Illicit Cryptocurrency Trading

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday issued the first-ever sanctions against a virtual currency exchange platform, SUEX, for knowingly facilitating ransomware payments and other illicit financial transactions....

December 8, 2020 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

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...

November 24, 2020 | Dylan Gresik |

Rushed Afghanistan Drawdown Likely to Benefit Al-Qaeda

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller announced last week an order to reduce U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500, to be completed by January 15, 2021. Justified as a move to end “perpetual...

June 2, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Craig Singleton

Beijing Flexes Its Muscles – And Washington Better Get Ready

Eager to consolidate and extend its authoritarian control, Beijing brushed aside its international obligations last week and advanced plans to crush dissent in Hong Kong. Following the nearly unanimous...

April 8, 2020 | Mark Dubowitz, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Tehran Can Afford to Fight COVID-19 Even Without Sanctions Relief

The Iranian government is leading an international campaign to pressure the United States to lift sanctions. American and European negotiators of the ill-fated Iran nuclear deal, along with dozens of pressure...

August 20, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, David Maxwell

Iran-North Korea meeting — A message for the US?

An excerpt from the op-ed follows: "As U.S. sanctions on Iran ...

December 18, 2017 | Annie Fixler, Trevor Logan

House Bill Elevates Civilian Cybersecurity Agency

The House passed the...

September 19, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

They Have a Strategy

During a press conference on August 28, Barack Obama had a rare moment of candor. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” the president said in response to a question about the prospect...

April 27, 2012 |

Virginia Detainee Law is Dangerously Unconstitutional

Co-authored by Charles D. Stimson The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in par...

June 10, 2011 |

The Case for Telecom Immunity

Security means holding firm on the sticking point in the surveillance drama.

January 28, 2011 | The Diplomat |

The Importance of Bahrain

Authored by Steven Sotloff Another round of talks and another failure to find a breakthrough over Iran’s nuclear programme. Despite it being the most pressing crisis facin...

March 4, 2008 |

The Case for Telecom Immunity

It’s been nearly three weeks since House Democrats endangered our national security by effectively rescinding the law that permitted the intelligence community to conduct aggressive surveillance...

August 15, 2007 | Clifford D. May

Surging: It’s getting harder to deny that General Petraeus is making progress

“The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction.” That was the prediction of blogger and anti-war activist Arianna Huffington back in December of l...