Recipe for Success: Guidance Based on the Experience of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission
Guidance Based on the Experience of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission ...
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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...
Policy Briefs
The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States
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Memos
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
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....
Policy Briefs
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
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...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
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...
Insights
Congress Urges New Sanctions on Turkey
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced...
Policy Briefs
Iran-North Korea meeting — A message for the US?
An excerpt from the op-ed follows: "As U.S. sanctions on Iran ...
Op-eds
House Bill Elevates Civilian Cybersecurity Agency
The House passed the...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
The Case for Telecom Immunity
Security means holding firm on the sticking point in the surveillance drama.