Protected in Name Only: HIPAA’s Health Data Gap Is Becoming a National Security Risk
Protected health data is only as secure as the system designed to protect it.
United States Office of Personnel Management
The long shadow of delay
U.S.-Taiwan arms delivery backlogs and the future of deterrence
Op-eds
The Taiwanese and U.S. Militaries Can’t Really Fight Together
A joint campaign to defend the island would struggle to operate effectively.
Op-eds
Trump Administration Requests Extraordinary $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget
After years of bipartisan failures to devote sufficient resources to defense, the Trump administration requested an extraordinary 44 percent increase in defense spending in its roughly $1.5...
Policy Briefs
Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok
The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...
Op-eds
Skills-based Hiring Can Address Cyber Workforce Shortfalls
On an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis, the House of Representatives on October 2 passed the Modernizing the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act, which would eliminate all minimum educational requirements...
Policy Briefs
Cyberspace Domain Operations Rely on the Cyber Workforce to Succeed
The Department of Defense (DOD) released an update last week to its plan to provide flexible role-specific training for its cyber workforce. This effort continues DOD’s successful approach to cyber workforce...
Policy Briefs
China’s Accelerating CEEW Campaign
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July
Policy Tracker
Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber Director
Memos
From Trump to Biden
The Way Forward for U.S. National Security
Monographs
Making America secure again
Trump recognized threats, and at least began to address them
Op-eds
How China Tries to Intimidate Its Dissidents Living Overseas
Explaining the CCP’s “Fox Hunt” program.
Op-eds
The Cyber Vulnerabilities of a Work-At-Home Government
A former federal executive, still working within a high level of the national security apparatus, recently had his home network hacked. He was working from home, as most Americans are these days. Rather...
Op-eds
Project Vampire: TCIL Effort Seeks to Mitigate Real-Time Threats to the Home Networks of U.S. Government Workforce
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing a radical realignment of where and how the American workforce works, more and more sensitive business operations are being handled on home networks. Operating outside...
Insights
Federal Agencies Fail to Meet Basic Cybersecurity Standards
The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a stark bipartisan...
Policy Briefs
Prevailing in Today’s Cyber Battlefield Requires Strategic Consensus
In 1953, the United States stood at a precipice. After the death that year of Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin, senior U.S. cabin...
Op-eds
Lost in cyberspace
Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee was mischievous. Did it change the outcome of the 2016 elections? No evidence suggests that and the intelligence community isn’t...
Op-eds
Shutting Down OPM’s Background Check System Could Crush Federal Contractors
The decision to shut down the Office of Personnel Management's electronic system for processing government background checks, and its return to paper questionnaires, has effectively frozen t...
Op-eds
To Beat China’s Cyberattacks, America Needs to Fight Back On All Fronts
Last week’s revelation that the personal records of 4 million current and former federal workers was accessed by a massive hack traced to China was a wake-up call we shouldn’t have ne...