Cybersecurity - Related

When Good Metaphors Go Bad: The Metaphoric "Branding" of Cyberspace

ktimlin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Current cybersecurity discussions rely heavily on imaginative metaphors, models, and related rhetorical devices which initially provide insight into the challenges we face in cyberspace, but too often end up as empty labels or catch phrases used by different people to mean different things. When metaphors begin to function in this way, they can become an impediment to meaningful discussio

Rethinking Cybersecurity - A Comprehensive Approach

ktimlin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

James A. Lewis gave a speech on September 12, 2011, at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo titled "Rethinking Cybersecurity - A Comprehensive Approach."

Significant Cyber Events

ian — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

A list of significant cyber events since 2006.

Last modified on May 4, 2012.

2012 Global Forecast

ian — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Critical Questions for 2012

ian — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

From international security and regional study to global challenges, CSIS experts will address many of the world's most difficult policy concerns and critical questions in 2012. To kick off the new year, we asked 25 of our scholars to identity what worries them most and what are the biggest opportunities in their respective areas of study.

Selected Bibliography for Cyber Security

dzheng — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

This list is a work in progress that we update regularly as new reports are found and/or published. If you have suggestions for additions, send them to techpolicy@csis.org.

Cyber Attacks, Real or Imagined, and Cyber War

sherry — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Assorted “cyber attacks” have attracted much attention in the past few months. One headline in this genre recently proclaimed “Anonymous Declares War on Orlando.” This is wrong on so many levels that it almost defies analysis.

The Significance of the Frontier: Why Privacy and Cybersecurity Clash

ian — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The internet diminishes privacy. Perhaps it will ultimately destroy it. The effect of digital technology on an individual’s ability to control personal data raises serious concerns, but does disappearing privacy also mean the end of civil liberties? Not necessarily, and understanding how to preserve political liberties while privacy shrinks is an essential task for the digital future.

Protecting Privacy Through Cybersecurity

ktimlin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400

If the internet is ever to be a safer, and in fact more private environment for the millions of Americans who use it, national cybersecurity mission will be one of the means by which it becomes so. To this end, it is critical that we reconcile privacy and cybersecurity in a way that gives all citizens equal confidence in the way our government protects information and in the way our gover

Cybersecurity Two Years Later

jdunton — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500

When CSIS published Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency two years ago, cybersecurity was not a major issue for public policy. Along with the work of many others, our first report helped to change this. However, the new energy in the national dialogue on cybersecurity has not yet translated into sufficient progress.

WikiLeaks and Free Flow of Information on the Internet

mentman — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500

There is a delicious irony in the fact that it is now the so-called liberal democracies that are clamouring to shut WikiLeaks down. . . . Given what we now know, that [ January 21, 2009] Clinton speech reads like a satirical masterpiece.

--John Naughton, Guardian.co.uk1

Oversight for Cybersecurity Activities

ktimlin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500

In the absence of consensus on how to balance privacy with the need for government cybersecurity measures, a fallback approach has been to rely on intelligence oversight practices as a possible model for oversight in the cybersecurity realm.

A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500

"The cyber threat to the United States affects all aspects of society, business, and government, but there is neither a broad cadre of cyber experts nor an established cyber career field to build upon, particularly within the Federal government."

Thresholds for Cyberwar

ian — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

There is a broad range of hostile or malicious action in cyberspace – crime, espionage, attacks, and political action. The identity of those who engage in these actions can be indeterminate, and these activities, at some level, often overlap. This does not justify, however, a similar blurring and imprecision in our discussions of cyber conflict.

Protecting Lives and Data

mentman — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

This week brings a critical test for the transatlantic security partnership. The European Parliament will vote on a revised agreement with the United States on tracking terrorist finances using financial data unique to the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). The vote is about more than restoring data-sharing.

Cross-Domain Deterrence and Credible Threats

dzheng — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The concept of deterrence rests on a series of assumptions about how potential opponents recognize, interpret and react to threats of retaliation. The fundamental assumption is that a correct interpretation by opponents will lead them to reject certain courses of action as too risky or too expensive.

Transnational Threats Update May 2010 - Vol. 8, No. 3

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Cyber War and Competition in the China - U.S. Relationship

dzheng — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

These are remarks delivered at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations on May 13, 2010.

A Note on the Laws of War in Cyberspace

dzheng — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400

There is some disagreement as to whether we can apply the existing legal framework for warfare to cyber conflict or whether a new legal framework is needed. This debate conflates two separate issues: can the existing legal framework be applied to cyber conflict and is the existing framework adequate.

Google and China

ian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400

China is feeling on top of the world these days. Peoples Daily recently ran an article with the headline “Collective Decision-making Eclipses Rowdy Democracy.” It is not hard to guess to whom “rowdy democracy” refers. There is more to this than China’s own growth.

The Electrical Grid as a Target for Cyber Attack

dzheng — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The electrical power grid has gotten much attention in the last few yars as a potential target for cyber attack. This paper reviews the reasons why.

The Cyber War Has Not Begun

dzheng — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Expanded attention to cybersecurity is a good thing, but it seems that it is difficult to discuss this topic without exaggeration. We are not in a ‘cyber war’. War is the use of military force to attack another nation and damage or destroy its capability and will to resist. Cyber war would involve an effort by another nation or a politically motivated group to use

The "Korean" Cyber Attacks and Their Implications for Cyber Conflict

dzheng — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Topics discussed in the paper:

When does a cyber attack become an act of war?

Deterrence in cyberspace

Norms and thesholds

Political constraints on cyber attack

Non-state actors in cyberspace

Among the major points made by the paper:

Twenty Important Controls for Effective Cyber Defense and FISMA Compliance

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Securing the United States against cyber attacks has become one of the nation’s highest priorities. To achieve this objective, networks, systems, and the operations teams that support them must vigorously defend against external attacks.

Cybersecurity Commission Comparison Chart

ian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

This chart compares the recommendations of the White House 60-day cyberspace policy review with the recommendations issued by the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission in their report Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency.

Innovation and Cybersecurity Regulation

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The market has failed to secure cyberspace. A ten-year experiment in faith-based cybersecurity has proven this beyond question.

A new Federal approach to cybersecurity will fail if it does not elicit actions that the private sector will not otherwise perform.

Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency." The Commission’s three major findings are:

Telecommunications Working Group Final Report

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Final report of the Telecommunications Working Group of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency.

Threats Posed by the Internet

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Report of the Threat Working Group of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency.

Cybersecurity Commission Factsheet

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500