Cybersecurity

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is flanked by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Trade Representative Katherine Tai as they meet with European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis during U.S and European Union trade and investment talks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 29, 2021. REUTERS/John Altdorfer .

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Reckoning with cyberpolicy contradictions in great power politics

Robert D. Williams

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

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NATO in a competitive world: A conversation with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

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FILE PHOTO: A man takes part in a hacking contest during the Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on July 29, 2017. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo

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America’s anti-hacking laws pose a risk to national security

Riana Pfefferkorn

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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Becoming a digital power: Japan’s path for domestic transformation and international influence

8:00 PM - 9:15 PM EDT

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Reports

Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to logos of social media apps Signal, Whatsapp and Telegram projected on a screen in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Telecommunications & Internet

Countering disinformation and protecting democratic communication on encrypted messaging applications

Jacob Gursky and Samuel Woolley

June 2021

Telecommunications & Internet

The Breakout Scale: Measuring the impact of influence operations

Ben Nimmo

September 2020

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

Sarah Kreps

June 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.

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

Tom Stefanick

April 2020

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

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

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Blog Posts

A woman uses her cell phones in Manhattan, New York.

TechTank

How technology and the world have changed since 9/11

Darrell M. West and Nicol Turner Lee

Friday, August 27, 2021

TechTank

Why hospitals and healthcare organizations need to take cybersecurity more seriously

Emily Skahill and Darrell M. West

Monday, August 9, 2021

View of the software to recover files encrypted by the virus ''WannaCry'' at the Recovery Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province in Chengdu city, southwest China's Sichuan province, 15 May 2017.A technology company in Sichuan province released a software to recover files encrypted by the virus ''WannaCry'' in Chengdu city, southwest China's Sichuan province, 15 May 2017. Over the past few weeks, numerous computer users have been reporting ransomware attacks where files are encrypted and appended with the .wallet extension.No Use China. No Use France.

TechStream

Should ransomware payments be banned?

Tarah Wheeler and Ciaran Martin

Monday, July 26, 2021

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The future of the Coast Guard

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Remembering the first ‘space war’: A discussion with Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Cybersecurity and cyber resilience

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EDT

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John Villasenor

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Podcast Episode

How did the US government get hacked?

Tarah Wheeler and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

People look at data on their mobiles as background with internet wire cables on switch hub is projected in this picture illustration taken May 30, 2018. Picture taken May 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

TechStream

Using differential privacy to harness big data and preserve privacy

Chuck Kapelke

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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

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Fighting Russian disinformation

Alina Polyakova and Jonathan Tepperman

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Monday, September 30, 2019

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Cybersecurity

Reckoning with cyberpolicy contradictions in great power politics

NATO in a competitive world: A conversation with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

America’s anti-hacking laws pose a risk to national security

Becoming a digital power: Japan’s path for domestic transformation and international influence

Reports

Countering disinformation and protecting democratic communication on encrypted messaging applications

The Breakout Scale: Measuring the impact of influence operations

The role of technology in online misinformation

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

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

Blog Posts

How technology and the world have changed since 9/11

Why hospitals and healthcare organizations need to take cybersecurity more seriously

Should ransomware payments be banned?

Events

The future of the Coast Guard

Remembering the first ‘space war’: A discussion with Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Cybersecurity and cyber resilience

Related Books

Beyond Disruption: Technology’s Challenge to Governance

Beyond Snowden

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

Experts

John Villasenor

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

Multimedia

How did the US government get hacked?

Using differential privacy to harness big data and preserve privacy

Fighting Russian disinformation

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