Cybersecurity

FILE PHOTO: A computer keyboard lit by a displayed cyber code is seen in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

Technology & Innovation

The role of technology in online misinformation

June 2020

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TechStream

Formal methods as a path toward better cybersecurity

Tim Carstens and David Forscey

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to members of the news media after departing from the Senate Chamber floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. , April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

TechTank

Congress dawdles on remote voting

Scott R. Anderson and Margaret L. Taylor

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The 380-metre tall electricity pylon to carry power cables between Zhoushan's Jintang and Cezi islands with a distance of 2,656 metres, which is the tallest power transmission tower in the world, is being capped at the construction site in Cezi islands, Zhoushan city, east China's Zhejiang province, 11 August 2018.Construction on a giant power supply pylon, believed to be the world's tallest, completed in east China's Zhejiang Province, State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Company announced. At an impressive 380 meters tall, the pylon is four times the height of London's Big Ben. The pylon will carry power cables between Zhoushan's Jintang and Cezi islands, a distance of 2,656 meters, It breaks the world record for the tallest power pylon currently held by China's Damaoshan pylon which stands at 370 meters, also in Zhoushan. The new pylon is a part of a new ultra-high voltage power line project between cities of Zhoushan and Ningbo. The project is expected to be put into use in 2019.No Use China. No Use France.

Report

Secure power: Gigawatts, geopolitics, and China’s energy internet

April 2020

Reports

An image of Israeli soldiers is seen on a computer screen with colourful markings of a face recognition programming script, during a cyber security training course, called a Hackathon, at iNT Institute of Technology and Innovation, at a high-tech park in Beersheba, southern Israel August 28, 2017. Picture taken August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1DE502FAB0

Report

Cybersecurity, digital trade, and data flows: Re-thinking a role for international trade rules

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

A woman visits the Huawei Cyber Security Transparency Centre in Brussels, Belgium March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman - RC16860A0720

Report

Cybersecurity and digital trade: Getting it right

Joshua P. Meltzer and Cameron F. Kerry

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Signs of Qualcomm and 5G are pictured at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai, China June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC19526AED60

Cybersecurity

Why 5G requires new approaches to cybersecurity

Tom Wheeler and David Simpson

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Vishant Patel, senior manager of investigations at the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, shows a heat map and talks about how malicious computer networks known as the Citadel Botnets attack computers in Western Europe at the Microsoft Cybercrime Center in Redmond, Washington November 11, 2013. Microsoft, the maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, digital forensics experts and lawyers trained in fighting software pirates under one roof at its new Cybercrime Center. Picture taken November 11, 2013. To match Feature MICROSOFT-CYBERCRIME/ REUTERS/Jason Redmond (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CRIME LAW) - GM1E9BE1NSH01

Technology & Innovation

Terrorist definitions and designations lists

Chris Meserole and Daniel L. Byman

Friday, July 19, 2019

Cybersecurity

Securing 5G networks: Challenges and recommendations

Robert D. Williams

Monday, July 15, 2019

Blog Posts

Hands typing on a computer

Order from Chaos

The dubious strategy of indicting the Chinese Equifax hackers

Robert D. Williams

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

TechTank

Moving from ‘secret sauce’ to open standards for 5G

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Iranian people carry a coffin of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, during a funeral procession in Tehran, Iran January 6, 2020. Official Khamenei website/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Order from Chaos

Iran spent years building a cyber arsenal. Will it unleash that arsenal now?

Monday, January 6, 2020

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Events

Webinar: Protecting elections during the coronavirus pandemic

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EDT

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Counterterrorism in Asia

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Cybersecurity in Asia

10:00 AM - 1:30 PM EDT

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Related Books

Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance by George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, James Timbie

Beyond Disruption: Technology’s Challenge to Governance

Contributions by William Drozdiak

2018

Beyond Snowden

By Timothy H. Edgar

2017

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

By Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman

2014

Experts

Tom Stefanick

Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy

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Multimedia

Employees of the Afontovo private regional TV company work during the broadcast of an annual nationwide televised phone-in show attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Krasnoyarsk, Russia June 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Podcast Episode

Fighting Russian disinformation

Alina Polyakova and Jonathan Tepperman

Foreign Policy

Monday, September 30, 2019

Wristbands for voters are seen at a polling station during early voting in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young - S1BEUGZEKGAA

Podcast Episode

Protecting American elections from foreign interference

Darrell West and Fred Dews

Friday, August 2, 2019

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. One of the largest ever cyber attacks is slowing global internet services after an organisation blocking "spam" content became a target, with some experts saying the disruption could get worse. To match INTERNET-ATTACK/ REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Files (POLAND - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E93S08G701

Podcast Episode

Offensive cyber operations in US national security

Bill Finan, Herbert Lin, and Amy Zegart

Friday, April 26, 2019

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