“What counts are the political and military consequences of a violation…since these alone will determine whether or not the violator stands to gain in the end.”
Fred Ikle, “After Detection, What?” 1961

The announcement of the indictment of seven...

Media coverage of cyber attacks has never been higher than it is today. Government officials and business executives around the world are more aware of cyber threats than ever before and taking measures to improve security.

Violent extremists of all stripes have become increasingly adept at using the internet and social media to propagate their ideologies and radicalize and recruit a generation that has grown up online. Once a promising space for democratic dialogue and organization, the...

In the spring of 2015, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a roundtable discussion with key subject-matter experts to develop practical, actionable recommendations for ways to shape the future of biometric and identity intelligence in the...

The Ukraine crisis typifies the paradox of American opinion on foreign affairs today: we don’t want to get entangled in something costly and certainly not something involving the use of American forces, but we don’t really approve of looking feckless and inept....

The lack of consequences helps explain why cybercrime and cyber espionage are rampant.  If you don’t hold countries accountable for bad actions, they see no reason to stop. China has been engaged in a massive campaign of economic espionage against the United...

Now that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its Cybersecurity Framework, how will we know if it is working? There are two essential categories of measurement: adoption and effectiveness. These metrics provide essential information for...

The discovery of a vulnerability named Heartbleed in Open SSL, a key commercial encryption program, joins a long line of ridiculous stories about cybersecurity.

Here’s the basic question.  The coding error was made over two years ago. Since then,...

On March 4, the Defense Department released overviews of its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15). This is a budget which on one hand complies with the revised Budget Control Act caps for FY15 ($496 billion in base budget spending) and on the other hand tries to...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finds itself at a crossroads as it enters its second decade of existence. Since its creation in 2002, DHS has worked diligently to keep the United States safe from the specter of another catastrophic terrorist attack. In doing so,...