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The Case for Powerful, Intermittent Cyber Response
March 9, 2021
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Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
OPINION When it comes to cyberspace, “the United States is on the defensive,” James A. Lewis, Cipher Brief Expert and Director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told the 2021 Cyber Command Legal Conference last Thursday.
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Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with James Andrew Lewis, senior vice president and director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is the 261st in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Assess the effectiveness of the Clean Network and 5G Clean Path in the Trump era.
The Clean Network Initiative identified a major problem – the Chinese government uses any technological opportunity for espionage and surveillance – but it was never really implementable. It lacked a regulatory or legal basis, so it is best seen as aspirational. No one in their right mind should use a Chinese cloud service or undersea cables – it’s like inviting the Ministry of State Security or the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] to listen in – but it wi
Estonia s diplomacy training aims to shape state behavior in cyberspace
Estonia’s Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar speaking at a conference. (Security & Defense Agenda / Flickr)
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Diplomats from around the world are convening this week to share ideas about what type of behavior should be allowed in cyberspace, and debate what happens when those rules are broken.
The virtual confab, organized by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and designed for seasoned and green diplomats alike, began Tuesday morning to discuss how international law applies in cyberspace and different attack methods diplomats may encounter when confronting cyber incidents, Estonia’s Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar told CyberScoop in an interview.
Biden Prodded to Take Muscular Approach to Cybersecurity CYBERSECURITY
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Officials and analysts are urging the Biden administration to be more aggressive than its predecessors in dealing with cyber threats from adversaries such as Russia and China as well as non-state actors.
A December report by the Aspen Institute, “A National Cybersecurity Agenda for Resilient Digital Infrastructure,” offered a scathing critique of the U.S. posture.
“The increasing costs of malicious cyber activities demonstrates that current processes and structure are insufficient to safeguard national security, economic prosperity, and public health and safety,” said the study. “Numerous adversaries, whether nation-states or cybercriminals, can attack consumers, businesses and government agencies with relative impunity.”