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Cybersecurity

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Personal, government and business information is abundant in the digital world—collected when we use government websites, shop at dot coms, download music, use cell phones, and send email. Law enforcement and national security agencies also track private information to thwart criminal acts. Cybersecurity is how that information is protected from misuse. Brookings experts research various aspects of cybersecurity and how to create a secure cyber environment.

A Long March 3A rocket carrying the Chang'e One lunar orbiter blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan province October 24, 2007 ( REUTERS/Stringer).

Opinion

Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data

April 29, 2013, Noah Shachtman

Noah Shachtman writes that the Pentagon is so starved for bandwidth that it’s paying a Chinese satellite firm to help it communicate and share data. U.S. troops operating on the African continent are now using the recently-launched Apstar-7 satellite to keep in touch and share information, possibly putting Department of Defense information and encryption at risk.

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  • In the News

    The airspace [for the FAA's six drone test sites], under the current schedule, opens up [in] 2015...and so we will see one of the most fundamental shifts in who and how you can use the airspace above us.

    February 26, 2013, Peter W. Singer, National Public Radio

  • Interview | NPR

    It's Time to Recognize the Valor of Cyber Warriors

    February 19, 2013, Peter W. Singer

  • Interview | NPR

    Simulated War Between U.S.-Iran Has Grisly End

    September 24, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

  • Interview | The Atlantic

    The Future of Weapons: The Technology of War

    July 19, 2012, Peter W. Singer

  • In the News

    For years we’ve been hearing this real Cassandra talk, from guys like Leon Panetta, about how the next Pearl Harbor could be online. It always seemed a little bit out of whack with what we saw in the real world. …This discovery [of the link between Stuxnet and Flame computer worms] gives a much fuller picture of what this much larger campaign of espionage and sabotage entailed. We knew about Stuxnet and we knew about Duqu [another cyber weapon]... And now we’ve got this third, major effort to do all kinds of espionage, and evidence strongly suggests that they’re all linked.

    June 11, 2012, Noah Shachtman, The Telegraph

  • In the News

    We now know why they [top administration officials] were making those predictions [of a cyber attack]. They were talking about themselves—not what some outside opponent could do to us, but what we were doing to others...The U.S. has basically endorsed the use of these things publicly, and that does change the game.

    June 10, 2012, Noah Shachtman, The Hill

  • Podcast

    @ Brookings Podcast: Internet Privacy and Security

    May 20, 2011, Allan A. Friedman

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