Robert Potter makes the case that the Chinese government conceptualizes cybersecurity in a fundamentally different way than the US government, and reducing vulnerabilities will require a defensive posture that accounts for this.
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On October 14, Gen. (Ret) Michael Hayden spoke to cadets and faculty about his time in the intelligence community and emerging national security threats.
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MWI Contributor Robert Potter argues a turn for the positive in U.S. cybersecuirty with the recent appointment of Brigadier General (retired) Gregory J. Touhil as the first ever U.S. Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
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MWI Contributor Robert Potter argues that authoritarian states are more vulnerable to the impacts of cyberwarfare than democracies.
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Cadet Niccolo Iacovelli argues that cyber forces should have a greater role and a grand challenge should be setup to prove the need.
Read MoreI’m a little tired of the back-and-forth between cyber “experts” (an overused superlative when one considers how early it is into this domain’s usefulness in security affairs), particularly the deliberately provocative expressions about a potential “cyber Pearl Harbor.” In my mind, Richard Clarke’s 2012 book adequately represents the hype about the threat, while Thomas Rid’s 2013 book might be read as a response or a bucket of cold water to the keyboard. Why doesn’t the cyber community put up or shut up? Frankly, Stuxnet was not enough for proof of concept. Show us the money – especially with respect to cyber’s ability to create physical destruction in a useful or meaningful way. Or, as I’d put it: pass the “Mitchell Test.”
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