United States Office of Personnel Management

March 22, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

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...

October 12, 2023 | Jiwon Ma |

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...

March 1, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jiwon Ma

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...

December 23, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Making America secure again

Trump recognized threats, and at least began to address them

July 8, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How China Tries to Intimidate Its Dissidents Living Overseas

Explaining the CCP’s “Fox Hunt” program.

May 29, 2020 | Michael Hsieh, Samantha Ravich

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...

May 15, 2020 | FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation |

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...

September 4, 2018 | Annie Fixler, Tyler Stapleton

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...

January 11, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

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...

July 8, 2015 | Pasi Eronen

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...

June 9, 2015 | Pasi Eronen

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...