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Cybersecurity in the 2015 National Security Strategy
President Obama releases his second National Security Strategy today. The strategy warns that “danger of disruptive and even destructive cyberattack is growing,” and describes a response based on...
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Guest Post: The White House Cyber Summit Was Great, But Questions Remain
Matthew H. Fleming is a Fellow with the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, a federally funded research and development center serving the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and an...
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Guest Post: Is the Sony Hack the Dawn of Cyber Deterrence?
Ram Levi is the CEO of Konfidas, a cybersecurity consulting firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security. He formerly served as the secretary of the...
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Private Sector and Government Collaboration on Cybersecurity: The Home Depot...
Last week, I spoke to two groups of chief information security officers (CISOs). While I went in to talk about some of the information sharing initiatives I worked on while I was in government, I was...
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Sanctioning Hackers
President Obama signed an executive order today that allows the U.S. Department of the Treasury to sanction individuals or entities involved in “significant malicious cyber-enabled activities” (you can...
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Cyber Sanctions: Three Scenarios
Last week, the Obama administration rolled out an executive order on cyber sanctions (Adam Segal’s excellent first take is here). During the various press briefings explaining the order, administration...
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Cybersecurity Legislation in Congress: Three Things To Know
The debate over cybersecurity is heating up again in Washington. Congress is considering multiple pieces of legislation intended to enhance the ability of the private sector and government to share...
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The Messages the Federal Court of Appeals Sent to Congress and the Executive...
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act does not authorize the NSA’s telephone metadata surveillance program. Since Edward Snowden disclosed it in June 2013, the...
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Sanctioning Cyber Crime: The New Face of Deterrence
Zachary K. Goldman is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. He formerly served in the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial...
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Taking Stock of Snowden’s Disclosures Two Years On
Last Friday marked the second anniversary of the start of Edward Snowden’s disclosures. The days preceding this anniversary highlighted Snowden’s continued prominence. On June 1, Section 215 of the USA...
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