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CYBER PEARL HARBOR

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

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

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…

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!

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

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…

European Network Readiness & Digital Transformation

Roundtable: Organized by the Euralo Available recordings: English, Spanish, French, Russian. See below for links to recordings. AGENDA     Agenda Presentation  Welcome: Sébastien Bachollet (3’)Leader & moderator:  Introduction and scoping questions - Pari Esfandiari, Member, Euralo, At…

Think again about China

By: Gregory Treverton - First Published in The Hill Even by the usual Washington standards, the current debate about China is remarkably caricatured. Indeed, it says more about us than about them, and, sadly, what…