Cybersecurity

On Topic

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.

MSgt Michael Gregory, senior operations controller, works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center.

REUTERS/Rick Wilking - MSgt Michael Gregory, senior operations controller, works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. U.S.

Opinion

Is There Such a Thing as Cyberwar?

September 27, 2013, Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace asks, “what is the definition of cyberwar?” While cyber represents a disruptive technology and a potential new battlespace, he argues that it is not appropriate to describe current cyber activities as “war.” War is temporary and objective-oriented, but cyber is a permanent space without clearly delineated goals.

Recent Activity

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Interview

A Conversation on the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue

July 3, 2013, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Eswar Prasad
In the News

This is one of those opportunities to score points against the United States that I would be surprised if Russia passed up.
June 25, 2013, Fiona Hill, The Associated Press
Interview

Where U.S.-China Relations Are Headed After the Xi-Obama Meetings

June 10, 2013, Cheng Li
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