Cybersecurity

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

A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance's app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 18, 2019. Picture taken October 18, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC171198B320

Op-Ed

Is TikTok a threat to national security?

Friday, November 15, 2019

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 and digital trade: What role for international trade rules?

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

People burn flares during a rally against the approval of the so-called Steinmeier Formula, in Kiev, Ukraine October 6, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko - RC138F6A3450

Future Development

Fighting corruption in Ukraine: USAID’s strategy

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Reports

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

Facebook and Twitter logos are seen on a shop window in Malaga, Spain, June 4, 2018. REUTERS/Jon Nazca - RC1E67248790

Cybersecurity

Democratic Defense Against Disinformation 2.0

Alina Polyakova and Daniel Fried

June 2019

Blog Posts

A FireEye information analyst works in front of a screen showing a near real-time map tracking cyber threats at the FireEye office in Milpitas, California, December 29, 2014. FireEye is the security firm hired by Sony to investigate last month's cyberattack against Sony Pictures. Picture taken December 29. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CRIME LAW) - RTR4JTQC

TechTank

A federal backstop for insuring against cyberattacks?

Aaron Klein and Scott R. Anderson

Friday, September 27, 2019

Maps of Georgia, split into house of representatives districts, can be seen with headphones for phone banking at Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp's campaign office during a phone banking event in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis - RC1CE0096190

FixGov

Political campaigns are the first line of defense in election security

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Voters cast their ballots for the midterm elections in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare - RC15CE3E7D80

FixGov

States and localities are on the front lines of fighting cyber-crimes in elections

Thursday, August 15, 2019

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Events

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

Regulating a Digital Economy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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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

Alina Polyakova

Director, Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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Multimedia

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

An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho September 29, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Order from Chaos

Experts examine Asia’s approach to cybersecurity

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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