Transportation Security Administration

December 10, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

Steady leadership prepares TSA to face evolving cyber threats

New presidents bring new policies. But amid rapidly expanding cyber threats, steady leadership at the federal agencies charged with securing critical infrastructure is, well, critical. David Pekoske,...

November 21, 2024 | Annie Fixler, Johanna Yang

Wanted: A Plan to Secure America’s Railroads Against Cyberattacks

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a proposed cybersecurity rule on November 6 that would “require the establishment of pipeline and railroad cyber risk management...

May 23, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

We must invest in defending our critical infrastructures

When it comes to cybersecurity, the Biden administration is failing to put its money where its mouth is. Over the past month, the administration has released a flurry of well-constructed...

November 7, 2023 | Jiwon Ma, Suyash Pasi

Boeing’s Cyber Incident Highlights Need for Greater Information Sharing 

Boeing confirmed last Wednesday it was experiencing a cyber incident affecting parts of its global services business but not the flight safety of Boeing aircraft. This incident highlights the need for...

November 3, 2023 | |

Israel SitRep: Nov. 3, 2023

Today’s Issue: Hezbollah Intensifies Attacks Ahead of Nasrallah Speech Hezbollah Intensifies Attacks Ahead of Nasrallah Speech Hezbollah claimed on November 2 that it launched two explosives-laden...

November 2, 2023 | Annie Fixler, Gabrielle Christello

More Cyber Collaboration Between TSA and Industry Will Put Railroad Operators on the Right Track 

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced updates to three security directives last week aimed at strengthening the cyber resilience of passenger and freight railroads. The new guidance...

March 13, 2023 | Jiwon Ma |

TSA’s Cybersecurity Requirements Prepare for Takeoff

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued fresh cybersecurity requirements last Tuesday for airports and aircraft operators. The announcement seeks to implement the Biden administration’s...

November 22, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

No Room for Half-Measures in Aviation Cybersecurity

A Boeing-owned subsidiary, Jeppesen, confirmed in early November that a cyber incident had impacted flight planning and communication software, causing flight delays for airlines using their services. In...

February 19, 2021 | Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Tom Ridge, VADM (Ret) John Shkor, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

A strong offense can decrease cyberattacks on critical infrastructure

Excerpt After years of malicious cyber activity targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, hackers linked to Russia recently infiltrated numerous American companies and federal government agencies, including...

August 15, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda’s propaganda magazine Inspire calls for train attacks in US, Europe

The new edition of Al Qaeda's online propaganda magazine, known as Inspire, calls on its followers to target trains in the US and Europe, identifying three methods of attack: the train'...

November 19, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Two Cheers for New TSA Screening

New Transportation Security Administration procedures reported late last month represent a dramatic change from the often caricatured, scan-every-grandma checkpoint security policies adopted just...

December 12, 2011 |

The Real Rules of Detention

Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

The Government’s Jihad on Jihad

Still lookin' for love in all the wrong places.

December 28, 2010 | National Review Online

Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding

Our son Daniel (aka Lt Ledeen, USMC, based in Okinawa) is in the midst of week-long events that will culminate in the wedding ceremony on Thursday afternoon here in Jerusalem. He is marrying Nata...

December 5, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

WikiLeaks: Fishing With Dynamite

Pity the U.S. diplomats in the field, whose jobs presumably require that they now compose classified cables reporting back to Washington on local responses to the blunter aspects of their own wik...

December 2, 2010 | Clifford D. May

The TSA Is Not the Enemy

I've been traveling a lot lately so I've been scanned, I've been patted and, on one occasion, there was even a close encounter with my "junk." But I am not among those who are cros...

November 24, 2010 |

TSA Is Terrible

More years ago than I care to remember, I prosecuted some violent drug dealers. During the trial, we got some reliable information that their associates were transferring contraband to them in pr...

July 12, 2010 |

The Homegrown Terror Threat

Homegrown terrorism has been much discussed on cable news channels and the op-ed pages of major newspapers in recent months. The attention is unsurprising. After all, 2009 saw more homegrown terr...

April 21, 2010 | Lee Smith Beirut2Bayside

Lee Smith on the Syria Policy

An excellent piece by Lee Smith in Tablet Magazine today: The argument over how to engage Syria encompasses, then, both sentimental and strategic logic....

July 18, 2008 | National Review Online

Do We Really Need a State Department — and Does Anyone in It Own a Copy of the Constitution?

I thought I had seen it all a while back when we caught the federal Transportation Security Adminis...