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National Security Memorandum

NewsAugust 11, 2021

By Daniel Simonds - GTPF On July 28th, 2021, the White House Published the National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems. This memorandum is important because it demonstrates that the current…

Latest in Cybersecurity

NewsAugust 5, 2021

By: Daniel Simonds - GTPF Following the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack on May 27, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a Security Directive that issued cybersecurity requirements for critical…

Digital Corridors

GeoPoliticsAugust 5, 2021

By: Dariush Onsori Central Asia, often regarded as a backwater still languishing in its Soviet and Russian-dominated past, it is now an arena of geopolitical competition, especially between China and India, whose approaches and wherewithal…

CYBER PEARL HARBOR

GeoPoliticsJuly 2, 2021

The looming threat of cyber-attacks on Industrial Control Systems By: Daniel Simonds "Cyber Pearl Harbor" is dramatic language because, after all, each time the United States or another country is attacked, that alerts them to…

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Remembering Donald H. Rumsfeld

Gregory TrevertonJuly 2, 2021

By: Gregory Treverton Whatever one's view of the second Iraq war, Donald Rumsfeld deserves to go down in history as a dedicated and effective public servant.  Sometimes, perhaps, he was a little too effective.  If…

GHANA SIG

EventsJune 29, 2021

Pari Esfandiari Speaking at the GHANA School for Internet Governance on . The event was brought about by the E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) the organisers of the 2021 Ghana School on…

Colonial Pipeline attack: a turning point for cyber…

GeoPoliticsJune 21, 2021

By Jennifer Korn Will the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline change the international norms currently in place regarding nation-states and their historical hesitancy to engage in crippling infrastructure attacks? In this paper, we will explore…

Lebanon: Collapse!

GeoPoliticsJune 19, 2021

Lebanon, which before its civil war stood as a symbol of what might go right in the Middle East, now stands as testimony to what can go wrong.  It began to unravel in 2019, after…

JBS Foods Ransomware Attack

NewsJune 6, 2021

By: Dan Simonds On Sunday, May 30, JBS Foods USA, the world's largest processor of beef and pork, determined that its North American and Australian (IT) information technology systems were the target of a ransomware…