Podcasts about cyberspace solarium commission

On this episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Strategy Series, sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is now the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, joins Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss reconciliation, the Trump administration's “skinny” $1 trillion defense budget request, prospects the measure will pass Congress given the White House's proposed $164 billion in proposed discretionary spending cuts, the importance of soft power investments including the Voice of America, Rafio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia in countering Russian and Chinese disinformation worldwide, aid programs to advance US interests, and an update on the Ukraine war.

Cyber threats are evolving – but U.S. cyber policy coordination is still lagging behind. Four years after the establishment of the Office of the National Cyber Director, the Trump administration has a unique opportunity to establish stronger central coordination and drive meaningful improvements in how the federal government secures and defends cyberspace. How should the administration clarify and reinforce the role of the National Cyber Director? How can the administration create a more structured and accountable interagency cyber community? How can these structures set clearer national priorities and achieve the goals of deterring adversaries and advancing national resilience in cyberspace?To discuss these issues and more, FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) hosts a virtual conversation with former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and John Costello, senior advisor to CSC 2.0, an initiative housed at FDD to continue the work of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission. The conversation is moderated by RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of CCTI and former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission with introductions by Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chair of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation.For more, check out: https://www.fdd.org/events/2025/03/12/coaching-thecyberteam-the-future-of-the-office-of-the-national-cyber-director-and-cyber-governance/

Hugh covers the news of the day and talks with Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery (USN, ret.), Director of the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, chairman of Reagan Institute's National Leadership Council, and Dan Senor, host of the Call Me Back podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China has prepositioned destructive cyber capabilities in U.S. energy and transportation infrastructure. Russia has capabilities to disrupt undersea cables and industrial control systems. Iran has exploited unprotected networks to deface machines monitoring water systems. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security is charged with collaborating with the private sector to secure critical systems. Since its creation in 2018, CISA has led federal efforts to understand and mitigate systemic cyber risk. How vulnerable is America in cyberspace? How has public-private cyber collaboration changed over the past six years? And, as U.S. adversaries become more aggressive in cyberspace, how can CISA bolster national cyber resilience?FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation hosts a fireside chat with CISA Director Jen Easterly on protecting critical infrastructure in the cyber age. The conversation will be moderated by RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, CCTI senior director and former executive director of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission.For more, check out: https://www.fdd.org/events/2024/01/15/infrastructure-security-in-the-cyber-age-a-conversation-with-cisa-director-jen-easterly/

Four years ago, Congress created the Office of the National Cyber Director to serve as the president's senior advisor on cybersecurity, implementing national strategy, supporting whole-of-nation cyber resilience, and working with the Office of Management and Budget to align federal resourcing to growing cyber threats from criminals and nation states including China, Russia, and Iran. The office led the charge developing a new national cybersecurity strategy and executed dozens of technical, governance, workforce, and policy solutions to implement the strategy. Has this implementation bolstered national cyber resilience? Has the government developed a whole-of-nation response to cyber incidents? Are federal resources aligned to thwart and deter U.S. adversaries in cyberspace?FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation hosts remarks and a fireside chat with National Cyber Director Harry Coker, Jr. on the role of the Office of the National Cyber Director, its past successes, and lessons learned for the future. The conversation will be moderated by RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, CCTI senior director and former executive director of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission.For more, check out: fdd.org/events/2025/01/07/cyber-strategies-and-successes-a-conversation-with-national-cyber-director-harry-coker-jr/

The energy transition is transforming how we power our world – clean energy systems are becoming more interconnected, automated, and reliant on digital infrastructure. But with this transformation comes a new vulnerability: cyberattacks. As our grid becomes smarter and our system more digitized, the potential for disruption grows. Earlier this year, the FBI warned of a serious threat that Chinese hackers had infiltrated U.S. critical infrastructure systems, raising the possibility of a “devastating blow” to energy and other vital services. The stakes are clear. As we move forward with the energy transition – and increasingly digitizing and electrifying our systems –  we are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. This week, host Jason Bordoff speaks with Harry Krejsa about the cybersecurity risks at the intersection of operational technology and information technology in the clean energy transition, the destructive capabilities of China and Russia on American critical infrastructure, and what we should be doing about it. Harry is the director of studies at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology. He was previously in the Biden White House's Office of the National Cyber Director. There, he led development of the Biden-Harris administration's National Cybersecurity Strategy, established national clean energy security priorities, and represented the U.S. government in technology security consultations with foreign partners and the global private sector.  Prior to that, Harry worked at the intersection of technology, industrial strategy, and U.S.-China competition for the Department of Defense, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, and the Center for a New American Security.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Hoover Institution's Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative presents To War or Not to War: Vietnam and the Sigma Wargames on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 2:00PM PT. In 1964, America was slowly marching towards war in Vietnam. But what if that war could have been fought differently or avoided altogether? The Sigma Games, a series of politico-military wargames run by the Pentagon's Joint Staff in the 1960s, sought to understand the unfolding conflict in Southeast Asia. These games, which involved top figures from the Johnson Administration—including National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler—offer a chillingly accurate forecast of the war's potential trajectory.  Choose your character for an immersive experience. See the game unfold through the eyes of pivotal figures such as John McCone, Curtis LeMay, Earle Wheeler, and McGeorge Bundy in this interactive event. This event introduces the games and turns to a panel of historians to explore the Sigma Wargames, their prescient warnings, and why these early insights failed to shape the Johnson Administration's decision-making, ultimately leading to one of America's most costly conflicts.  The conversation, while a look into a key set of games at a historical moment in American foreign policy, says something more broadly at the impact of wargames on US foreign and defense policy as well as how influence is created (and hijacked) within strategic decision making. ​PANELISTS H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.  McMaster holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was an assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy. He is author of the bestselling books Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World and Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. In August 2024, McMaster released his most recent book, At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. His many essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare have appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. McMaster is the host of Battlegrounds: Vital Perspectives on Today's Challenges and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution. He is a Distinguished University Fellow at Arizona State University. Mai Elliott is the author of The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family, a personal and family memoir which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era. She served as an advisor to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for their PBS documentary on “The Vietnam War” and featured in seven of its ten episodes.  She recently contributed a chapter analyzing “The South Vietnamese Home Front” for the soon to be published Cambridge University Press 3-volume work on the Vietnam War.    Mai Elliott was born in Vietnam and grew up in Hanoi and Saigon.  She attended French schools in Vietnam and is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  (She also writes under the name of Duong Van Mai Elliott).   Mark Moyar is the director of the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College, where he also holds the William P. Harris Chair of Military History. During the Trump administration, Dr. Moyar was a political appointee at the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving as the Director of the Office of Civilian–Military Cooperation. Previously, he directed the Project on Military and Diplomatic History at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and worked as a national security consultant. He has taught at the U.S. Marine Corps University, the Joint Special Operations University, and Texas A&M University. He is author of eight books, of which the most recent is Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. MODERATOR Jacquelyn Schneider is the Hargrove Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, and an affiliate with Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, autonomous technologies, wargames, and Northeast Asia. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Naval War College as well as a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Dr. Schneider was a 2020 winner of the Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize. She is also the recipient of a Minerva grant on autonomy (with co-PIs Michael Horowitz, Julia Macdonald, and Allen Dafoe), a University of Denver grant to study public responses to the use of drones (with Macdonald), and a grant from the Stanton Foundation to study networks, cyber, and nuclear stability through wargames. Dr. Schneider is an active member of the defense policy community with previous positions at the Center for a New American Security and the RAND Corporation. Before beginning her academic career, she spent six years as an Air Force officer in South Korea and Japan and is currently a reservist assigned to US Space Systems Command. She has a BA from Columbia University, MA from Arizona State University, and PhD from George Washington University.

#ISRAEL: Will the US counter attack Iran or its proxies Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, leading efforts to enhance U.S. security and counter cyber threats. He also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative focused on implementing recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was the Executive Director. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1951 Galilee

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Russia as the Ukrainian incursion pushes on toward Kursk Oblast. More later. 1941 Moscow defense CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2: UKRAINE: The incursion. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. 915-930 2/2: UKRAINE: The incursion. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. 930-945 #SCALAREPORT: Chip wars and Huawei. Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache 945-1000 #VENEZUELA: The US hesitates to condemn. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ SECOND HOUR 10-1015 Northern Israel: Under constant attack. Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, Founder and president of Alma – a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specializing in Israel's security challenges on its northern border. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1015-1030 IRAN: Unknown weaponizing schedule. David Albright is an American physicist and a weapons expert who is the founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), its current president, and author of several books on the proliferation of atomic weapons. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1030-1045 #ISRAEL: Will the US counter-attack Iran or its proxies? Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, leading efforts to enhance U.S. security and counter cyber threats. He also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative focused on implementing recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was the Executive Director. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 1045-1100 #ISRAEL: The scale and pattern of the anti-Israel media: Ben-Dror Yemini is a senior journalist with the Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot. He has conducted a lot of research on anti-Israeli propaganda. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #TAIWAN: Can it mitigate the PLA attack? Cliff May, FDD 1115-1130 #PRC: Another twist at the Defense Ministry. Charles Burton, Sinopsis. 1130-1145 1/2: #HOTEL MARS: The postponed Mars Sample Return Mission & What is to be done? David Southwood, Imperial College. David Livingston, Space Show. 1145-1200 2/2: #HOTEL MARS: The postponed Mars Sample Return Mission & What is to be done? David Southwood, Imperial College. David Livingston, Space Show. FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #MrMarket: US Industrial Policy of tariffs and subsidies means the voters pay more for lesser quality. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center 1215-1230 #CANADA: Climate Change and Ottawa. Conrad Black, National Post. 1230-1245 #IRAN: The Pakistani national accused of planning assassinations at the direction of Tehran. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, AEI 1245-100 am OCEANIA: Defending the Second Island Chain, Ronan Wordsworth, @GPFutures https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-us-strengthens-the-second-island-chain/

Podcast: Hack the Plant (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: The Case For A Cyber ForcePub date: 2024-07-23In this episode, Bryson sits down with Mark Montgomery, Senior Director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. For three years, Mark served as Executive Director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, created by congressional mandate to develop strategic approaches to defending against cyber attacks. Now, he directs CSC 2.0, an initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the Commission. What were the key recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission? What are the politics of cybersecurity? How do we ensure that our international partners have the same level of resiliency and recovery that we have domestically? “We'd like to fight our adversaries overseas. That means we have to fight with and through our allies and partners. So they have to have strong critical infrastructure as our forces arrive and execute their missions,” Mark said. Join us for this and more on this episode of Hack the Plan[e]t. Hack the Plant is brought to you by ICS Village and the Institute for Security and Technology. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bryson Bort, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

This week, we are joined by Errol Weiss, CSO of Health-ISAC, and he is discussing the current threat landscape in healthcare and their contributions to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's healthcare report. Dave and Ben discuss the latest rulings from the US Supreme Court including how the ruling will likely have a sweeping effect on regulations, including cybersecurity rules, in every sector. While this show covers legal topics, and Ben is a lawyer, the views expressed do not constitute legal advice. For official legal advice on any of the topics we cover, please contact your attorney.  Please take a moment to fill out an audience survey! Let us know how we are doing! Links to the stories: Chevron Pattern Disrupted: The Impact on Cybersecurity Regulations Caveat Briefing A companion weekly newsletter is available CyberWire Pro members on the CyberWire's website. If you are a member, make sure you subscribe to receive our weekly wrap-up of privacy, policy, and research news, focused on incidents, techniques, tips, compliance, rights, trends, threats, policy, and influence ops delivered to you inbox each Thursday. Got a question you'd like us to answer on our show? You can send your audio file to caveat@thecyberwire.com. Hope to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Security Dilemma, Patrick Carver Fox and John Allen Gay spoke with Dr. Brandon Valeriano, a professor at Seton Hall University. Dr. Valeriano is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Marine Corps University as a Senior Advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 and he's additionally written a number of books on the subject, including CyberStrategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coersion in 2018. Today, we talk about the state of modern cybersecurity, hackers as proxy-forces, K-pop's role in Asian geo-politics and what a Netflix series can teach us about the state of Chinese soft power. Article on Boy Bands Article on The 3 Body Problem Article on De-Escalation and Cyber

This week, Audra is joined by Mark Montgomery, senior director of the FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and director of the CSC 2.0. Today's discussion focuses on the progress made implementing the recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's 2020 report and securing critical infrastructure more broadly, including insights from Mark on the need for a distinct military force focused exclusively on cybersecurity.   Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, where he leads FDD's efforts to advance U.S. prosperity and security through technology innovation while countering cyber threats that seek to diminish them. Mark also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he served as executive director. Previously, Mark served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John S. McCain, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. He was assigned to the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000, serving as director for transnational threats. Mark has graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford and completed the U.S. Navy's nuclear power training program. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e277

The FBI takes down ALPHV/BlackCat. Comcast reveals breach of nearly 36 million Xfinity customers. Microsoft and Cyberspace Solarium Commission release water sector security report. Malware increasingly uses public infrastructure. Iran's Seedworm and its telco targets. QR code scams. Feds release joint analysis of 2022 election integrity. Joint advisory on Play ransomware group. In today's Mr Security Answer Person, John Pescatore considers the risks of AI. Rick Howard talks with Lauren Brennan of GuidePoint Security about evaluating and maturing your SOC. Iranian gas stations running on empty. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guests John Pescastore joins us for Mr. Security Answer Person to address the question, “Things seem to be moving quickly with AI, what is your feeling about that positioning for early 2024?” Today's guest is Lauren Brennan of GuidePoint Security. N2K's Rick Howard caught up with Lauren recently  at the MITRE ATT&CKcon 4.0. They discussed evaluating and maturing your SOC. Selected Reading Authorities claim seizure of notorious ALPHV ransomware gang's dark web leak site (TechCrunch+) Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (TechCrunch+) Microsoft, Cyberspace Solarium Commission propose measures to strengthen water sector cybersecurity (Industrial Cyber) Malware leveraging public infrastructure like GitHub on the rise (Reversing Labs) Seedworm: Iranian Hackers Target Telecoms Orgs in North and East Africa (Symantec) “Quishing” you a Happy Holiday Season (netcraft) 2022 Election Not Impacted by Chinese, Russian Cyber Activity: DOJ, DHS (Securityweek) US and Australia Warn of Play Ransomware Threat (Infosecurity Magazine) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc.

Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chairman for the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins the podcast this week. She shares insights from her many years on the geopolitical and economic front lines of cyber, and work with many renowned government leaders, on developing a plan of action to address today's cyber threat landscape and looming threat against critical infrastructure and essential services. She also provides perspective on building resiliency, what we can learn from natural disasters relative to cyber attacks, as well as the opportunity and impact of states creating and driving their own continuity of the economy plans. Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chairman, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies ---- Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chairman of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and its Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab and the principal investigator on FDD's Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare project. She is also a senior advisor at FDD, serving on the advisory boards of FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) and Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). Samantha serves as a commissioner on the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission and as a member of the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Investigation Advisory Board. Samantha served as deputy national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, focusing on Asian and Middle East Affairs as well as on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation. Following her time at the White House, Samantha was the Republican co-chair of the congressionally mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. Most recently, she served as vice chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) and co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. She is advisor on cyber and geo-political threats and trends to numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies; a managing partner of A2P, a social data analytics firm; and on the board of directors for International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT). Her book, Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences (Cambridge University Press) is used as a basic textbook in international economics, political science, and Asian studies college courses. Samantha is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and advises the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. She is a frequent keynote speaker on: What Corporate Boards need to know about Cyber Security and Warfare; The Longer-Term Trends in International Security; and the Future of Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Samantha received her PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and her MCP/BSE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-ravich-7b5aa08b/ For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e254

The smooth function of America's economy is critical for national security, military readiness, and geopolitical influence, making it a likely target for an adversary during a conflict. To quickly recover in the event of a widespread cyberattack on multiple industries, Congress directed the president to establish a Continuity of the Economy (COTE) plan. The Biden administration delivered its response to Congress in August 2023, but the final product provides no plan to ensure rapid economic recovery. It asserts that COTE is sufficiently covered by other emergency response plans, and as a result, fails to grapple with important questions: Does the federal government have the information it needs to determine the order of recovery in the wake of a crisis? Can emergency response plans focused primarily on public health and safety work effectively to restart the economy? Who should be responsible for ensuring existing government plans actually get updated to incorporate COTE? And, critically, what role should the private sector – the owners and operators of the U.S. economy – play in COTE planning and implementation?To address these shortcomings and provide recommendations on how to remedy them, FDD is hosting a virtual discussion with Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection; Tom Fanning, executive chairman of Southern Company; Mark Harvey, former senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff, and RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Samantha Ravich, chair of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI).

Podcast: To The Point - Cybersecurity (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: The Cyber Satellite Threat with Mark MontgomeryPub date: 2023-08-08This week on the podcast, we're joined by Mark Montgomery, senior director of the FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and director of the CSC 2.0. Mark shares about the different physical and cyber threats faced by satellites and space networks. He also shares considerations for classifying satellites as critical infrastructure and what the legislation required to do so might look like.   Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, where he leads FDD's efforts to advance U.S. prosperity and security through technology innovation while countering cyber threats that seek to diminish them. Mark also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he served as executive director. Previously, Mark served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John S. McCain, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. He was assigned to the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000, serving as director for transnational threats. Mark has graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford and completed the U.S. Navy's nuclear power training program. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e245The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Forcepoint | Global Cybersecurity Leader | Security. Simplified., which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

This week on the podcast, we're joined by Mark Montgomery, senior director of the FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and director of the CSC 2.0. Mark shares about the different physical and cyber threats faced by satellites and space networks. He also shares considerations for classifying satellites as critical infrastructure and what the legislation required to do so might look like.   Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, where he leads FDD's efforts to advance U.S. prosperity and security through technology innovation while countering cyber threats that seek to diminish them. Mark also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he served as executive director. Previously, Mark served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John S. McCain, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. He was assigned to the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000, serving as director for transnational threats. Mark has graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford and completed the U.S. Navy's nuclear power training program. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e245

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission looks at obstacles to public-private collaboration in the industrial sector. Malware in the industrial sector increases. Organizations plan to increase their OT cybersecurity budgets. CISA and its partners have released a Joint Guide to Securing Remote Access Software. And the US DoD holds its Cyber Yankee exercise. Today's guest is Will Edwards of Schweitzer Engineering Labs discussing cyber awareness syndrome. The Learning Lab has the conclusion off the discussion between Dragos' Mark Urban, Principal Adversary Hunter Kyle O'Meara, and Principal Intelligence Technical Account Manager Michael Gardner on threat hunting.  Control Loop News Brief. Obstacles to public-private collaboration in the industrial sector. Revising Public-Private Collaboration to Protect U.S. Critical Infrastructure (CSC 2.0) NERC's role in public-private security collaboration can deter utilities from sharing information: report (Utility Dive) Malware in the industrial sector increases. 2023 Unit 42 Network Threat Trends Research Report (Unit 42) CISA and partners release Joint Guide to Securing Remote Access Software. Guide to Securing Remote Access Software (CISA) US DoD holds Cyber Yankee exercise. Cyber Yankee Prepares Military, Business for Cyber Threats (Air National Guard) Control Loop Interview. The interview is with Will Edwards of Schweitzer Engineering Labs discussing cyber awareness syndrome. Control Loop Learning Lab. On the Learning Lab, Mark Urban is joined by Dragos Principal Adversary Hunter Kyle O'Meara and Dragos Principal Intelligence Technical Account Manager Michael Gardener to conclude their discussion on threat hunting.  Control Loop OT Cybersecurity Briefing. A companion monthly newsletter is available through free subscription and on the CyberWire's website.

It was a disastrous week for cryptocurrency in the United States, as the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit against the two biggest exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, on a theory that makes it nearly impossible to run a cryptocurrency exchange that is competitive with overseas exchanges. Nick Weaver lays out the differences between “process crimes” and “crime crimes,” and how they help distinguish the two lawsuits. The SEC action marks the end of an uneasy truce, but not the end of the debate. Both exchanges have the funds for a hundred-million-dollar defense and lobbying campaign. So you can expect to hear more about this issue for years (and years) to come. I touch on two AI regulation stories. First, I found Mark Andreessen's post trying to head off AI regulation pretty persuasive until the end, where he said that the risk of bad people using AI for bad things can be addressed by using AI to stop them. Sorry, Mark, it doesn't work that way. We aren't stopping the crimes that modern encryption makes possible by throwing more crypto at the culprits.  My nominee for the AI Regulation Hall of Fame, though, goes to Japan, which has decided to address the phony issue of AI copyright infringement by declaring that it's a phony issue and there'll be no copyright liability for their AI industry when they train models on copyrighted content. This is the right answer, but it's also a brilliant way of borrowing and subverting the EU's GDPR model (“We regulate the world, and help EU industry too”). If Japan applies this policy to models built and trained in Japan, it will give Japanese AI companies at least an arguable immunity from copyright claims  around the world. Companies will flock to Japan to train their models and build their datasets in relative regulatory certainty. The rest of the world can follow suit or watch their industries set up shop in Japan. It helps, of course, that copyright claims against AI are mostly rent-seeking by Big Content, but this has to be the smartest piece of international AI regulation any jurisdiction has come up with so far. Kurt Sanger, just back from a NATO cyber conference in Estonia, explains why military cyber defenders are stressing their need for access to the private networks they'll be defending. Whether they'll get it, we agree, is another kettle of fish entirely. David Kris turns to public-private cooperation issues in another context. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission has another report out. It calls on the government to refresh and rethink the aging orders that regulate how the government deals with the private sector on cyber matters. Kurt and I consider whether Russia is committing war crimes by DDOSing emergency services in Ukraine at the same time as its bombing of Ukrainian cities. We agree that the evidence isn't there yet.  Nick and I dig into two recent exploits that stand out from the crowd. It turns out that Barracuda's security appliance has been so badly compromised that the only remedial measure involve a woodchipper. Nick is confident that the tradecraft here suggests a nation-state attacker. I wonder if it's also a way to move Barracuda's customers to the cloud.  The other compromise is an attack on MOVEit Transfer. The attack on the secure file transfer system has allowed ransomware gang Clop to download so much proprietary data that they have resorted to telling their victims to self-identify and pay the ransom rather than wait for Clop to figure out who they've pawned. Kurt, David, and I talk about the White House effort to sell section 702 of FISA for its cybersecurity value and my effort, with Michael Ellis, to sell 702 (packaged with intelligence reform) to a conservative caucus that is newly skeptical of the intelligence community. David finds himself uncomfortably close to endorsing our efforts. Finally, in quick updates: Nick talks about Tesla's Full Self Driving, and the accidents it has been involved in I warn listeners that Virginia has joined the ranks of states that require an ID proving age to access Pornhub. I predict that twenty states will adopt such a requirement in the next year Download 462nd Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@gmail.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.  

Nikki - What does cyber resiliency mean to you?Nikki - Can you tell us a little bit more about the Cyberspace Solarium Commission or CSC, in particular I'm interested in the promotion of national resilience. Can you talk a little bit about what that means and what's in progress at the moment? Chris - There's been a lot of activity lately with the Cyber EO, OMB Memos, activities by NIST, publications by CISA and of course the National Cyber Strategy. How do you feel about where we're headed as a nation on the Cyber front and do you think we could be doing more, and if so, what in particular?Chris - I recently saw you made comments regarding Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and their lack of being designated as critical infrastructure I believe. I have seen similar comments from the OCND, due to how critical CSP's, especially major IaaS providers are to the nation. Why do you think they have avoided this designation as long as they have?Nikki - There are a lot of us in cybersecurity that got into it to help defend our nation and protect our country (myself included). Are there ways that other cyber defenders or technical professionals can get involved or any resources you would recommend? Nikki - I don't see a ton in legislature or in the Executive Order about the human element behind cybersecurity and our challenges with risk management. Do you foresee any legislation or anything that may come out around how to protect our users and even our security practitioners? Chris - I mentioned the NCS earlier, a big part of that was shifting market forces, the idea of software liability and also safe harbor. What are your thoughts on this topic?Chris - CISA recently released "Secure-by-Design/Default" guidance for software suppliers and manufacturers. I wrote an article recently tracing the advocacy for "secure by design" back 50 years to the Ware Report. Yet here we are, still advocating for the same concepts. What do you think it will take for this to become a requirement rather than a recommendation and how important is this paradigm shift for national security?

Podcast: Control Loop: The OT Cybersecurity Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The challenges of carrying out vulnerability management.Pub date: 2023-04-05The Vulkan Papers. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommends that CISA set up a test bed to improve maritime cybersecurity. Dragos CEO on critical infrastructure cybersecurity. The JCDC's pre-ransomware notification efforts. Guest Mike Hoffman, Technical Leader Global Services at Dragos & a SANS instructor, discusses challenges carrying out vulnerability management. In the Learning Lab, Dragos' VP Product & Industry Market Strategy Mark Urban concludes his two-part discussion about industrial cyber threat intel & collective intelligence with Seth Lacy, Principal Threat Hunter at Dragos.Control Loop News Brief.The Vulkan Papers. A Look Inside Putin's Secret Plans for Cyber-Warfare (Der Spiegel)Secret trove offers rare look into Russian cyberwar ambitions (The Washington Post)Maritime cybersecurity.Full Steam Ahead: Enhancing Maritime Cybersecurity (Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0)Cyber experts call for CISA to establish maritime equipment test bed (FedScoop)Dragos CEO on critical infrastructure cybersecurity.Full Committee Hearing to Examine Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to the United States' Energy Infrastructure (Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources)JCDC and pre-ransomware notification.JCDC Cultivates Pre-Ransomware Notification Capability (CISA)Getting Ahead of the Ransomware Epidemic: CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notifications Help Organizations Stop Attacks Before Damage Occurs (CISA)Control Loop Interview.The interview is with Mike Hoffman, Technical Leader Global Services at Dragos & SANS instructor, discussing challenges carrying vulnerability management.Control Loop Learning Lab.In Part 2 of 2, Dragos' VP Product & Industry Market Strategy Mark Urban speaks with Seth Lacy, Principal Threat Hunter at Dragos, about industrial cyber threat intel & collective intelligence. Industrial Cyber Threat Intel & Collective Intelligence links: Neighborhood Keeper in the Broader Context of Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Trend Analysis to Operationalize OT Threat Intelligence with Neighborhood Keeper Control Loop OT Cybersecurity Briefing.A companion monthly newsletter is available through free subscription and on the CyberWire's website.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from N2K Networks, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

The Vulkan Papers. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommends that CISA set up a test bed to improve maritime cybersecurity. Dragos CEO on critical infrastructure cybersecurity. The JCDC's pre-ransomware notification efforts. Guest Mike Hoffman, Technical Leader Global Services at Dragos & a SANS instructor, discusses challenges carrying out vulnerability management. In the Learning Lab, Dragos' VP Product & Industry Market Strategy Mark Urban concludes his two-part discussion about industrial cyber threat intel & collective intelligence with Seth Lacy, Principal Threat Hunter at Dragos. Control Loop News Brief. The Vulkan Papers. A Look Inside Putin's Secret Plans for Cyber-Warfare (Der Spiegel) Secret trove offers rare look into Russian cyberwar ambitions (The Washington Post) Maritime cybersecurity. Full Steam Ahead: Enhancing Maritime Cybersecurity (Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0) Cyber experts call for CISA to establish maritime equipment test bed (FedScoop) Dragos CEO on critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Full Committee Hearing to Examine Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to the United States' Energy Infrastructure (Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources) JCDC and pre-ransomware notification. JCDC Cultivates Pre-Ransomware Notification Capability (CISA) Getting Ahead of the Ransomware Epidemic: CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notifications Help Organizations Stop Attacks Before Damage Occurs (CISA) Control Loop Interview. The interview is with Mike Hoffman, Technical Leader Global Services at Dragos & SANS instructor, discussing challenges carrying vulnerability management. Control Loop Learning Lab. In Part 2 of 2, Dragos' VP Product & Industry Market Strategy Mark Urban speaks with Seth Lacy, Principal Threat Hunter at Dragos, about industrial cyber threat intel & collective intelligence.  Industrial Cyber Threat Intel & Collective Intelligence links: Neighborhood Keeper in the Broader Context of Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Trend Analysis to Operationalize OT Threat Intelligence with Neighborhood Keeper Control Loop OT Cybersecurity Briefing. A companion monthly newsletter is available through free subscription and on the CyberWire's website.

Vladimir Putin expected to conquer Ukraine in three days. But the brutal and bloody war he launched against his neighbor has dragged on for one year. The factors that gave rise to this war are still widely misunderstood. How or when it will end remains unclear, too. To unpack everything, Foreign Podicy host Cliff May — FDD's Founder and President and Chairman of its Russia Program — is joined by three FDD experts. RADM (ret) Mark Montgomery Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, countering cyber threats that seek to diminish America's national security. Mark also directs CSC 2.0, an FDD initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was executive director. Mark previously served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John McCain, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Before that, Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. Bradley Bowman Bradley Bowman is senior director of FDD's Center on Military and Political Power, focusing on U.S. defense strategy and policy. Brad spent nearly nine years as a national security and defense advisor in the U.S. Senate. Prior to that, he served more than 15 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, including as a company commander, helicopter pilot, congressional affairs officer in the Pentagon, and staff officer in Afghanistan. He also was an assistant professor at West Point, teaching foreign policy and grand strategy. John Hardie John Hardie serves as deputy director of FDD's Russia Program, focusing on Russian foreign and security policy, U.S. policy toward Russia and the post-Soviet space, and transatlantic relations. John holds an M.A. in security studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Vladimir Putin expected to conquer Ukraine in three days. But the brutal and bloody war he launched against his neighbor has dragged on for one year. The factors that gave rise to this war are still widely misunderstood. How or when it will end remains unclear, too. To unpack everything, Foreign Podicy host Cliff May — FDD's Founder and President and Chairman of its Russia Program — is joined by three FDD experts. RADM (ret) Mark Montgomery Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, countering cyber threats that seek to diminish America's national security. Mark also directs CSC 2.0, an FDD initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was executive director. Mark previously served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John McCain, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Before that, Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. Bradley Bowman Bradley Bowman is senior director of FDD's Center on Military and Political Power, focusing on U.S. defense strategy and policy. Brad spent nearly nine years as a national security and defense advisor in the U.S. Senate. Prior to that, he served more than 15 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, including as a company commander, helicopter pilot, congressional affairs officer in the Pentagon, and staff officer in Afghanistan. He also was an assistant professor at West Point, teaching foreign policy and grand strategy. John Hardie John Hardie serves as deputy director of FDD's Russia Program, focusing on Russian foreign and security policy, U.S. policy toward Russia and the post-Soviet space, and transatlantic relations. John holds an M.A. in security studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Laura Whitt-Winyard, an experienced Chief Information Security Officer most recently at Malwarebytes. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Laura Whitt-Winyard. About Laura Whitt-Winyard Laura Whitt-Winyard is a Fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT). ICIT is the US's leading cybersecurity think tank providing objective nonpartisan research, advisory, and education to legislative, commercial, and public-sector cybersecurity stakeholders in the protection of the nation's critical infrastructure. As a Fellow, she is one of the authors of the recently published book Securing the Nation's Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration, plus she has contributed to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report on cybersecurity chaired by Senator Angus King (I-Maine) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) as well as The Cybershield Act S.965 of the 117th Congress in conjunction with Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congressman Ted W. Lieu (CA-33). She is also an International Advisory Board Member and Women in Technology board member at HMG Strategy. Laura is the former Chief Information Security Officer at Malwarebytes and former Global Chief Information Security Officer for DLL Group. Prior to her time at DLL Group, she was Director of Security for Billtrust. Laura also held senior leadership positions in security at Comcast and Bloomberg, LP.

About Americans must be prepared to defend themselves from hostile armies, navies, air forces – and, not least, soldiers in cyberspace. With that in mind, in 2019, Congress created the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, the CSC. It's mission: “to develop a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber-attacks of significant consequences.” The CSC operated successfully for two and a half years, publishing its flagship report in March 2020. It issued more than 80 recommendations to reform U.S. government structures and organization, promote national resilience, operationalize public-private collaboration, and preserve and employ military instruments of national power. Many of those recommendations have been implemented — but not all. At the CSC's planned sunset, the commissioners launched "CSC 2.0" to support the implementation of outstanding recommendations, provide annual assessments of progress, and conduct further research and analysis on cybersecurity issues. It's a critical project because there are still many gaping holes in America's cyberspace defense capabilities. To better understand what is being done and what still must be done to defeat this evolving threat, host Cliff May is joined by RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery — former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, now senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, CCTI, which houses “CSC 2.0” — and Jiwon Ma, a program analyst at CCTI, where she focuses on this new project.  They recently co-authored the project's 2022 Annual Report on Implementation which examines the progress of efforts to harden our national security in cyberspace.

Americans must be prepared to defend themselves from hostile armies, navies, air forces – and, not least, soldiers in cyberspace. With that in mind, in 2019, Congress created the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, the CSC. Its mission: “to develop a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber-attacks of significant consequences.” The CSC operated successfully for two and a half years, publishing its flagship report in March 2020. It issued more than 80 recommendations to reform U.S. government structures and organization, promote national resilience, operationalize public-private collaboration, and preserve and employ military instruments of national power. Many of those recommendations have been implemented — but not all. At the CSC's planned sunset, the commissioners launched "CSC 2.0" to support the implementation of outstanding recommendations, provide annual assessments of progress, and conduct further research and analysis on cybersecurity issues. It's a critical project because there are still many gaping holes in America's cyberspace defense capabilities. To better understand what is being done and what still must be done to defeat this evolving threat, host Cliff May is joined by RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery — former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, now senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, CCTI, which houses “CSC 2.0” — and Jiwon Ma, a program analyst at CCTI, where she focuses on this new project.  They recently co-authored the project's 2022 Annual Report on Implementation which examines the progress of efforts to harden our national security in cyberspace.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Philip Niedermair, a managing director at the Ward & Berry law firm who is also chairman of the board of advisers at the National Cyber Group and a senior advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0, discusses commission priorities, changing the prevalent mindset that cyber security is a costly burden rather than a critically important economic and security enabler, attracting more diverse talent to the cyber workforce, cyber takeaways from recent national security and law enforcement gatherings and remembering the legacy of Dr. Scott Dade, the director of the schools of cyber security, cryptology, business and foreign languages at Fort Gordon, with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

This episode features a much deeper, and more diverse, examination of the Fifth Circuit decision upholding Texas's social media law. We devote the last half of the episode to a structured dialogue about the opinion between Adam Candeub and Alan Rozenshtein. Both have written about it already, Alan critically and Adam supportively. I lead off, arguing that, contrary to legal Twitter's dismissive reaction, the opinion is a brilliant and effective piece of Supreme Court advocacy. Alan thinks that is exactly the problem; he objects to the opinion's grating self-certainty and refusal to acknowledge the less convenient parts of past case law. Adam is closer to my view. We all seem to agree that the opinion succeeds as an audition for Judge Andrew Oldham to become Justice Oldham in the DeSantis Administration.   We walk through the opinion and what its critics don't like, touching on the competing free expression interests of social media users and of the platforms themselves, whether there's any basis for an injunction today, given the relative weakness of the overbreadth argument and the fundamental disagreement over whether “exercising editorial discretion” is a fundamental right under the first amendment or just an artifact of older technologies. Most intriguing, we find unexpected consensus that Judge Oldham's (and Clarence Thomas's) common carrier argument may turn out to be the most powerful point in the opinion and when the case reaches the Court. In the news roundup, we focus on the Congressional sprint to pass additional legislation before the end of the Congress. Michael Ellis explains the debate between the Cyberspace Solarium Commission alumni and business lobbyists over enacting a statutory set of obligations for systemically critical infrastructure companies. Adam outlines a strange-bedfellows bill that has united Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in an effort to give small media companies and broadcasters an antitrust immunity to bargain with the big social media platforms over the use of their content. Adam is a skeptic, Alan less so. The Pentagon, reliably braver when facing bullets than a bad Washington Post story, is performing to type in the flap over fake social media accounts. Michael tells us that the accounts pushed pro-U.S. stories but met with little success before Meta and Twitter caught on and kicked them off their platforms. Now the Department of Defense is conducting a broad review of military information operations. I predict fewer such efforts and don't mourn their loss. Adam and I touch on a decision of Meta's Oversight Board criticizing Facebook's automated image takedowns. I offer a new touchstone for understanding content regulation at the Big Platforms: They just don't care, so they've turned to whole project over to second-rate AI and second-rate employees. Michael walks us through the Department of the Treasury's new flexibility on sending communications software and services to Iran.  And, in quick hits, I note that: The Justice Department's China Initiative continues to suffer from pushback.  We should all expect bad things from the emergence of  violence as a service Russian botmasters have suddenly discovered that extradition to the U.S. may be better than going home and facing mobilization.

This episode features a much deeper, and more diverse, examination of the Fifth Circuit decision upholding Texas's social media law. We devote the last half of the episode to a structured dialogue about the opinion between Adam Candeub and Alan Rozenshtein. Both have written about it already, Alan critically and Adam supportively. I lead off, arguing that, contrary to legal Twitter's dismissive reaction, the opinion is a brilliant and effective piece of Supreme Court advocacy. Alan thinks that is exactly the problem; he objects to the opinion's grating self-certainty and refusal to acknowledge the less convenient parts of past case law. Adam is closer to my view. We all seem to agree that the opinion succeeds as an audition for Judge Andrew Oldham to become Justice Oldham in the DeSantis Administration.   We walk through the opinion and what its critics don't like, touching on the competing free expression interests of social media users and of the platforms themselves, whether there's any basis for an injunction today, given the relative weakness of the overbreadth argument and the fundamental disagreement over whether “exercising editorial discretion” is a fundamental right under the first amendment or just an artifact of older technologies. Most intriguing, we find unexpected consensus that Judge Oldham's (and Clarence Thomas's) common carrier argument may turn out to be the most powerful point in the opinion and when the case reaches the Court. In the news roundup, we focus on the Congressional sprint to pass additional legislation before the end of the Congress. Michael Ellis explains the debate between the Cyberspace Solarium Commission alumni and business lobbyists over enacting a statutory set of obligations for systemically critical infrastructure companies. Adam outlines a strange-bedfellows bill that has united Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in an effort to give small media companies and broadcasters an antitrust immunity to bargain with the big social media platforms over the use of their content. Adam is a skeptic, Alan less so. The Pentagon, reliably braver when facing bullets than a bad Washington Post story, is performing to type in the flap over fake social media accounts. Michael tells us that the accounts pushed pro-U.S. stories but met with little success before Meta and Twitter caught on and kicked them off their platforms. Now the Department of Defense is conducting a broad review of military information operations. I predict fewer such efforts and don't mourn their loss. Adam and I touch on a decision of Meta's Oversight Board criticizing Facebook's automated image takedowns. I offer a new touchstone for understanding content regulation at the Big Platforms: They just don't care, so they've turned to whole project over to second-rate AI and second-rate employees. Michael walks us through the Department of the Treasury's new flexibility on sending communications software and services to Iran.  And, in quick hits, I note that: The Justice Department's China Initiative continues to suffer from pushback.  We should all expect bad things from the emergence of  violence as a service Russian botmasters have suddenly discovered that extradition to the U.S. may be better than going home and facing mobilization.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is now the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyber Solarium 2.0 commission, discusses the new report he co-authored with FDD's Jiwon Ma —“2022 Report on Implementation” of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's recommendations — including legislations that's passed, in process, remaining challenges and impediments, as well as an update on what leadership changes in the House and Senate will mean for cyber legislation; and Fortress' Andrea Schaumann discusses cyber lessons from the revelation that Chinese alloys made it into a magnet in F-35 Lightning II fighters made by Lockheed Martin with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

This episode features Cory Simpson, Founder & CEO of Gray Space Strategies Inc., who discusses the relationship between privacy, cybersecurity, and national security. He draws upon his experience as Senior Director and lead for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission and discusses whether the U.S. Government and private sector are prepared for conflict involving critical infrastructure. Cory also describes how national security has evolved over the past several decades and looks at how some privacy protections in the American Data Privacy & Protection Act may be important national security considerations.

Washington and Beijing are engaged in an increasingly intense contest spanning nearly all domains of power — and the stakes could not be higher. It's a competition between the world's leading constitutional democracy and the world's leading authoritarian power. While this contest between the U.S. and China is a global one, it's most acute in Taiwan where the free people there are confronting the very real prospect of military aggression by the Chinese Communist Party. Indeed, if there is to be a war between the United States and China, many expect that it would begin in the Taiwan Strait. To help illustrate why Taiwan matters and exactly what steps the U.S. must take to defend Taipei and counter Beijing, guest host Bradley Bowman — senior director of FDD's Center on Military and Political Power — is joined by top experts RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery and Elbridge Colby. RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery is the senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. After his 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, Mark served as the policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John McCain and later as the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Elbridge Colby is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, and he spearheaded the development of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. His recent book “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict” extensively and expertly details the China threat — and what the U.S. response should be.

Washington and Beijing are engaged in an increasingly intense contest spanning nearly all domains of power — and the stakes could not be higher. It's a competition between the world's leading constitutional democracy and the world's leading authoritarian power. While this contest between the U.S. and China is a global one, it's most acute in Taiwan where the free people there are confronting the very real prospect of military aggression by the Chinese Communist Party. Indeed, if there is to be a war between the United States and China, many expect that it would begin in the Taiwan Strait. To help illustrate why Taiwan matters and exactly what steps the U.S. must take to defend Taipei and counter Beijing, guest host Bradley Bowman — senior director of FDD's Center on Military and Political Power — is joined by top experts RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery and Elbridge Colby. RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery is the senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. After his 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, Mark served as the policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John McCain and later as the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Elbridge Colby is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, and he spearheaded the development of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. His recent book “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict” extensively and expertly details the China threat — and what the U.S. response should be.

On this week's Cyber Report, Dr. Jim Lewis, the director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a Cyberspace Solarium Commission senior advisor, review key cyber events in 2022 and what to expect through the end of the year with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Over the course of the last two years, cybersecurity planning and thought leadership have picked up with a parallel increase in regulation, Congressional action, and government reorganization. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommended and got a National Cyber Director and incident reporting legislation through the hard work of the SASC, HASC, and HSGAC, but where do these changes leave us now? Is the National Cyber Director leading the federal government effort, or are government turf battles making leadership in cyber confusing? And what about incident reporting - how many new proposals have we seen, and which are the most critical to understand? Join us for a discussion of all of these issues and what the cybersecurity landscape might look like in a year or five years from now. Speakers: Tatyana Bolton, Policy Director, Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats, The R Street Institute Kacy Zurkus, Content Strategist, RSAC

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who is also a senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses cyber-related appropriations as well as House and Senate budget markups with a roundup of key service-specific moves; and Heather Penney, a senior resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, discusses why it's so important to get operators and technical personal on the same page when it comes to cyber and artificial intelligence with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Northrop Grumman also support our cyber coverage overall.

A new report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission bemoans the fact that the national cyber workforce shortage is still a major problem. But the commission thinks it's a problem that can start to be solved with the help of the new National Cyber Director – and the director will need strategies that address both the federal workforce and the private sector. FNN Deputy Editor Jared Serbu talked about what the landscape looks like on the private side, with Tom Downs, the Head of Diversity Talent Acquisition and the Employee Referral Program at Booz Allen Hamilton.

An influential panel says a lack of quality data is the number one barrier to making up the cybersecurity workforce shortage. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 is recommending Congress direct agencies to generate better estimates of how many cyber and IT personnel they need. It's also suggesting the National Cyber Director take the lead on a whole-of-government cyber workforce strategy. For more, Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday, spoke with the director of the solarium commission, Mark Montgomery.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Technology, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses the new commission report he co-authored with Laura Bate — “Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber Director” — why the market hasn't addressed the need for federal cyber talent, capabilities needed for the future, and how to improve recruiting, training, education and retention; and Betsy Soehren Jones, Fortress Information Security's chief operating officer, and Tobias Whitney, the company's vice president for strategy and policy, discuss industry feedback for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on software and hardware bill of materials — SBOMs and HBOMs — and how to improve the supply chain at the coding and component levels with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, a follow-on report to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission calls for a revamp of federal cyber hiring authorities. Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana says a key element to providing better customer experience is meeting people where they are. Amanda Eamich, senior director of business development at Publicis Sapient and former director of web communications at the Department of Agriculture, says customer experience work at an agency is done across the entire organization. The General Services Administration and the Defense Innovation Unit will work together to speed up the introduction of new capabilities through non-traditional contractors. Tim Cooke, president and CEO of ASI Government and former senior economist with the Center for Naval Analyses, discusses speeding up the acquisition process across government. State Department Chief Information Security Officer Donna Bennett tells Scoop News Group's Wyatt Kash that data and security goes together while her agency builds out its zero-trust architecture. This interview is part of Scoop News Group's “Getting Ahead of the Adversaries” video campaign, underwritten by Trellix. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Suzanne Spaulding, the former cyber director at the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration who is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses the Biden administration's efforts to improve cyber security and what more should be done, Russian cyber operations in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, issues the second Cyberspace Solarium Commission will address, improving operational technology vulnerabilities, and the importance of better cyber defenses for the nation's court systems; and Andrea Schaumann of Fortress discusses the technological, operational and business cyber concerns regarding unmanned systems and how to address them with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Suzanne Spaulding, the former cyber director at the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration who is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses the Biden administration's efforts to improve cyber security and what more should be done, Russian cyber operations in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, issues the second Cyberspace Solarium Commission will address, improving operational technology vulnerabilities, and the importance of better cyber defenses for the nation's court systems; and Andrea Schaumann of Fortress discusses the technological, operational and business cyber concerns regarding unmanned systems and how to address them with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Fortress' John Cofrancesco on cyber attack on Russia's Gazprom, how increasingly effective US defensive and offensive capabilities may lead of complacency across industry-government-public, and whether cyber defenders are improving their agility; and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who is also a senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses cyber elements of key legislations like the Competes-USICA, cyber spending priorities in Biden administration's 2023 budget request, military service J-book cyber details and the White House move to rewrite elements of National Security Presidential Memorandum 13 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Host Rich Goldberg speaks with two guests from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Dr. Samantha Ravich and Retired Admiral Mark Montgomery. They discuss cybersecurity threats to cryptocurrency, ransomware, Russia, the Biden Administration’s recent Executive Order and much more! Dr. Samantha Ravich Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chairman of FDD's Center onCyber and Technology Innovation and its Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab and the principal investigator on FDD's Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare project. She is also a senior advisor at FDD, serving on the advisory boards of FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) and Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). Samantha serves as a commissioner on the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission and as a member of the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Investigation Advisory Board. Samantha served as deputy national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, focusing on Asian and Middle East Affairs as well as on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation. Following her time at the White House, Samantha was the Republican co-chair of the congressionally mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. Most recently, she served as vice chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) and co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. She is advisor on cyber and geo-political threats and trends to numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies; a managing partner of A2P, a social data analytics firm; and on the board of directors for International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT). Adm. Mark Montgomery (Ret.) Mark Montgomery serves as senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, where he leads FDD's efforts to advance U.S. prosperity and security through technology innovation while countering cyber threats that seek to diminish them. Mark also directs CSC 2.0, an initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he served as executive director. Previously, Mark served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John S. McCain, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. His flag officer assignments included director of operations (J3) at U. S. Pacific Command; commander of Carrier Strike Group 5, embarked on the USS George Washington, stationed in Japan; and deputy director for plans, policy and strategy (J5) at U. S. European Command. He was assigned to the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000, serving as director for transnational threats. Mark has graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford and completed the U.S. Navy's nuclear power training program.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, in segment one our guest is Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is the senior advisor to the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; in segment two we speak with Navy Principal Cyber Adviser Chris Cleary.

Photo:  Odessa opera house advertisement, Transnistria Times #Ukraine: The campaign to capture Odessa by sea and land. RADM Mark Montgomery,USN (ret) @MarkCMontgomery  @FDD, Executive Director at the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission; Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-strikes-strategic-black-sea-port-city-odessa-201637

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, in segment one our guest is Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is the senior advisor to the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; in segment two we speak with Maretta Morovitz of  MITRE's Engage team lead.

A Paper Cyber Tiger? The Russian Cyberwar That Isn't…Yet With Brandon Valeriano, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, With Host Richard Levick of LEVICK: Brandon Valeriano, Ph.D., a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Marine Corps University and formerly a Senior Advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, joins host Richard Levick of LEVICK to discuss his latest articles including A Russian Cyber War in Ukraine Was a Fantasy and Putin's invasion of Ukraine didn't rely on cyberwarfare. Here's why. He discusses the clues earlier Russian cyber operations provide; why Russia's current cyber efforts have had little impact; their ineffectiveness on the battlefield but their effectiveness at disrupting peaceful societies, how hacktivists are engaging and why cyberwarfare is not yet decisive.

The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, Suzanne Spaulding from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) explains why she thinks malign influence and disinformation are national security threats. She also discusses the Foreign Malign Influence Center, various United States authorities, and civics. Resources: IPA Members Only Social and Live Podcast Recording Phoenix Challenge Conference (last week of April 2022) Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned #32 Treverton on Intelligence Global Trends and Technopolitics US delays intelligence center targeting foreign influence Beyond the Ballot Report Swedish Psychological Defence Agency Civics Secures Democracy Act Link to full show notes and resources https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-84 Guest Bio: Suzanne Spaulding is senior adviser for homeland security and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Suzanne has served in a variety of influential national security roles within the Intelligence Community, the Department of Homeland Security, and within the United States Congress. Likewise, her private sector experience covers a wide-range of legal, risk, and security issues. Suzanne Spaulding is senior adviser for homeland security and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She also served as a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Previously, she served as under secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where she led the National Protection and Programs Directorate, now called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, managing a $3 billion budget and a workforce of 18,000, charged with strengthening cybersecurity and protecting the nation's critical infrastructure, including election infrastructure. She led the transformation of budget, acquisition, analytic, and operational processes to bring greater agility and unity of effort to an organization that had experienced dramatic growth through acquisition of new entities and missions over several years. Throughout her career, Ms. Spaulding has advised CEOs, boards, and government policymakers on how to manage complex security risks across all industry sectors. At DHS, she led the development and implementation of national policies for strengthening the security and resilience of critical infrastructure against cyber and physical risks, including the National Infrastructure Protection Plan and key presidential directives and executive orders. She worked with industry to establish CEO-level coordinating councils in the electric and financial services sectors, chaired the federal government's Aviation Cybersecurity Initiative to identify and address key cyber vulnerabilities in the national aviation system, and worked with many foreign governments on critical infrastructure and cybersecurity, including negotiating agreements with China and Israel. Ms. Spaulding also led security regulation of the chemical industry, biometrics and identity management, emergency communications, and the Federal Protective Service. As a member of the board of directors for the First Responder Network Authority, Ms. Spaulding helped oversee the complex and unprecedented effort to deploy the first nation-wide broadband network for public safety. She is currently on the board of directors for Defending Digital Campaigns and for Girl Security, and advisory boards for Nozomi Networks, Splunk, MITRE, Harvard University's Defending Digital Democracy project, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the Technology Law and Security Program at American University. She is a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group, sits on the council of executives for the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at Auburn University, and is on the faculty of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Following the attacks of 9/11, Ms. Spaulding worked with key critical infrastructure sectors as they reviewed their security posture and advised the CEOs of the Business Roundtable. In 2002, she was appointed by Governor Mark Warner of Virginia to the Secure Commonwealth Panel to advise the governor and the legislature regarding preparedness issues. She was managing partner of the Harbour Group, a principal in the Bingham Consulting Group, and of counsel to Bingham McCutchen LLP. Ms. Spaulding has served in Republican and Democratic administrations and on both sides of the aisle in Congress. She was general counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and minority staff director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She also spent six years at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she was assistant general counsel and legal adviser to the director's Nonproliferation Center. She was a member of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, which developed a bipartisan national cybersecurity strategy in advance of the 2008 election; executive director of the National Commission on Terrorism and the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction; and a consultant on the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. She is former chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, founder of the Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, and was a member of Harvard University's Long-Term Legal Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Freedoms in the War on Terror. About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is the senior advisor to the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, discusses the NSA-FBI-CISA guidance issued today on “Protecting Cleared Defense Contractor Networks Against Years-Long Activity by Russian State-Sponsored Actors,” what more Washington should be doing to protect the US national industrial base band critical infrastructure from Russian offensive operations, and update on status of cybersecurity legislation with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chairman for the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins the podcast this week. She shares insights from her many years on the geopolitical and economic front lines of cyber, and work with many renowned government leaders, on developing a plan of action to address today's cyber threat landscape and looming threat against critical infrastructure and essential services. She also provides perspective on building resiliency, what we can learn from natural disasters relative to cyber attacks, as well as the opportunity and impact of states creating and driving their own continuity of the economy plans. Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chairman, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies ---- Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chairman of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and its Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab and the principal investigator on FDD's Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare project. She is also a senior advisor at FDD, serving on the advisory boards of FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) and Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). Samantha serves as a commissioner on the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission and as a member of the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Investigation Advisory Board. Samantha served as deputy national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, focusing on Asian and Middle East Affairs as well as on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation. Following her time at the White House, Samantha was the Republican co-chair of the congressionally mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. Most recently, she served as vice chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) and co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. She is advisor on cyber and geo-political threats and trends to numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies; a managing partner of A2P, a social data analytics firm; and on the board of directors for International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT). Her book, Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences (Cambridge University Press) is used as a basic textbook in international economics, political science, and Asian studies college courses. Samantha is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and advises the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. She is a frequent keynote speaker on: What Corporate Boards need to know about Cyber Security and Warfare; The Longer-Term Trends in International Security; and the Future of Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Samantha received her PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and her MCP/BSE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-ravich-7b5aa08b/ For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e169

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Michael Herson of American Defense International and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Topics: — Update on defense appropriations, Russia sanctions, and USICA-COMPETES — Takeaways from meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin during which the two leaders pledged “limitless” cooperation — How Washington can pressure China if it helps Russia break US and allied sanctions — Whether excessive US use of sanctions would backfire if friends and foes work together to circumvent the dollar and Washington's hold on global finance — Putin's timetable for Ukraine invasion and Moscow's ability to successfully divide NATO without firing a shot — Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz's visit to Bahrain and Israel's first-ever participation in US-led naval exercises that include Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Oman and others — North Korea's missile tests and how Pyongyang is challenging UN restrictions — Update on Iran nuclear talks — GOP censure of Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO who is now with the Center for a New American Security and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Topics: — Whether the threat of Russian invasion of Ukraine will spur Congress to approve defense appropriations measure — What's next in Ukraine and the scope of Moscow's possible incursion — Concerns that NATO is not as united as the rhetoric suggests — How Russia-Ukraine crisis signals weakness to US allies and partners worldwide as well as adversaries like an increasingly assertive China — Implications of far-right Republicans parroting Kremlin talking points — Need for the US to craft a strategy to counter China and Russia, which are boosting their cooperation — Rethinking whether offensive cyber is equal to a physical invasion that should trigger retaliatory action and sanctions — Latest on Iran nuclear talks and why Arab nations are embracing their Jewish minorities as well as restoring ancient temples

Nikki - You are currently a Fellow with Stanford University - could you talk a little about the journey you've made to this point and how cybersecurity plays into the Fellowship?Chris - We know you served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Can you speak about that, for those that aren't familiar with the commission, and knowing the government has acted on some of the commission's recommendations, do you think we're making the progress needed as a nation when it comes to Cyber?Nikki - Do you feel that we're doing enough to blend academic, industry, and public sector pursuits in cybersecurity? Chris - You recently spoke about why deterrence isn't the right approach for national security, can you elaborate on that, and what direction we may look to take instead?Nikki - Given your background with the Air Force - do you think there are any lessons learned that we could use or, at the very least consider in other organizations when it comes to protecting systems?Chris - We know you have an extensive background as a cybersecurity researcher and advisor, how do you go about ensuring you keep a pulse on the practitioner aspect of cybersecurity in addition to the research and academic aspect of cybersecurity?

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO who is now with the Center for a New American Security, Michael Herson of American Defense International and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Topics: — Defense appropriations outlook as service leaders warn of the perils of living under a full-year continuing resolution — What's next now that US-NATO talks with Russia have failed and Moscow craft pretexts to press ahead with its planned invasion of Ukraine — How to deter Russia after a decade of failing to adequately stand up to Moscow's transgressions and provocations — Lessons that Beijing is drawing from Russia's continuous and effective breaking of international norms as China rises tensions over Taiwan — Implications of Beijing's expanding influence in the Gulf — Key takeaways from the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, a new federal website for requesting COVID-19 rapid tests should be online this weekend. Ari Schwartz, managing director for cybersecurity at Venable and former special assistant to the President and White House senior director for cybersecurity, joins Francis to discuss legislation on Capitol Hill to modernize the Federal Information Security Management Act and improve federal responses to cyber breaches. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission transitioned to a non-profit organization at the start of the new year. Chris Cummiskey,CEO at Cummiskey Strategic Solutions and former acting under secretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security, explains the legacy of the commission and the continued push from the federal government for a unified cybersecurity infrastructure. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

In this episode: Kazakh President Tokayev authorized lethal force to restore order amid ongoing violent protests; A new report looks at possible signs of tension among the Biden cyber team; Cyberspace Solarium Commission to reboot as a non-profit; US and Russia to meet on Monday for Ukraine crisis talks; South Korea says North Korea missile launch was not hypersonic; Chinese researchers claim breakthrough in laser technology.  

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Michael Herson of American Defense International. Topics: — As worries of a full-year continuing resolution increase, House Appropriations Committee chair suggests $740 billion funding measure, plus next week's HAC-D hearing on CRs — Implications of Jan. 6 on 2022 legislation and politics, including President Biden's address this week commemorating a year since the insurrection — US-China relations and Xi Jinping struggles with a faltering economy — Washington's failure to rejoin Trans-Pacific Partnership as Beijing organizes rival bloc — Deterring Russia as Moscow moves forces to quell uprising in neighboring Kazakhstan — Whether bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission can serve as a model to solve other pressing national security challenges — Latest on national security, defense and military strategies — Update on Iran nuclear negotiations

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Michael Herson of American Defense International. Topics: — Analysis of the National Defense Authorization Act passed this week by Congress — Update on appropriations and Build Back Better as Congress raises the nation's debt limit — Russia's demands as Moscow masses troops on Ukraine border and Washington and NATO work to defuse crisis — Biden administration moves against Chinese state-owned companies' ability to operate in the United States, stopping diplomats from attending Beijing Winter Olympics and the nomination of Caroline Kennedy, the former US ambassador to Japan as America's next ambassador to Australia — Update on the Iran nuclear deal as Israel deftly negotiates behind the scenes and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes historic visit to Abu Dhabi — Expectations of the Biden administration's upcoming 2022 and out year spending plans to be released early next year — Look at the key events of 2021 that will shape 2022

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by northern Grumman, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior advisor to the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission who is also the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, discusses the cyber elements of the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act that omitted key intrusion and ransomware reporting requirements, the need for businesses small and large to report intrusions to the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency, what's next for passing legislation including House efforts, and key takeaways from the Reagan National Defense Forum with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Michael Herson of American Defense International. Topics: — Congress averts a government shutdown, but NDAA, full-year Continuing Resolution and debt limit increase loom — Analysis of what we know about the Biden administration's Global Posture Review that was embraced by President Biden but remains classified — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's warning to China that it faces economic devastating if it miscalculates over Taiwan — Administration efforts to bring region together to better deter Beijing — Russia's continued massing of forces on the Ukraine border — Israel's call that Washington end a new round of nuclear negotiations with Iran — What our roundtable expects to hear from participants in this year's Reagan National Defense Forum — Results of latest RNDF national security poll that shows declining American public support for the US military

The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, Noah Komnick discusses his award-winning thought leadership and writings related to complexity and cybernetics. Before retiring from the Marine Corps, Noah received an “outside the box” innovation award from the Secretary of the Navy for his Reaction Control philosophy, which he implemented in the 2018 timeframe while commanding Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38. His present work and PhD research is about building defendable organizations for the "Age of Complexity.” Resources: Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned #47 Bar-Yam on Complex Systems and the War on Ideals #59 Mark Moffett on Societies, Identity, and Belonging Reaction Control: Developing the Anti-fragile Warrior Reaction Control: A Self-Regulating Process to Improve a Sailor or Marine's Decision Making (2016 SECNAV Innovation Award in the Outside the Box category) Rise of the Neostrategist: A New Paradigm for the Age of Complexity by Noah Komnick Neostrategy: How to Win in the Age of Complexity by Noah Komnick NECSI 2018 Conference National Security Language Is Stuck in the Cold War by Josh Kerbel Teams Manifesto by Yaneer Bar-Yam Murray Gell-Mann Richard Feynmen Colin Gray (Military Theorist) The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans P.B. Osinga Boyd's EM Theory An Introduction to Cybernetics by W. Ross Ashby [primary source for Law of Requisite Variety] The Future of Strategy by Colin S. Gray The Two Cultures: And a Second Look by C.P. Snow Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E.O. Wilson Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by E. O. Wilson Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems by John H. Holland Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Stanley and Lehman Incerto by Nassim Taleb Taylorism Laplace's demon “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” - George Box DoD's Calendar Year 2020 Suicide Report Link to full show notes and resources https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-72 Guest Bio: Noah Komnick is the CEO and founder of Seneka. Seneka partners with select private and public entities to design and develop defendable enterprises and communities. Noah is also a retired U.S. Marine officer. As an active-duty Marine, he was a career communication and information systems officer, a strategic-operational planner, and a communications squadron commander. His operational tours included duties with infantry, force reconnaissance, aviation, and expeditionary units. He was also an Associate Professor of Naval Science at both Northwestern University and Illinois Institute of Technology. Just prior to his retirement from the Marine Corps, Noah served as a cyber strategist for the nation's Cyberspace Solarium Commission and U.S. Cyber Command. Additionally, he is the creator of Reaction Control (a self-regulating process to improve Marines' mental fitness for combat) and Neostrategy (a new paradigm for achieving objectives in complex systems). Reaction Control received innovation awards from the Commandant of the Marine Corps and Secretary of the Navy in 2016, while Neostrategy publicly debuted at the International Conference on Complex Systems in 2018. Currently, Noah is a PhD candidate with Capitol Technology University where his interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection of cybernetics, complexity science, and sociobiology as applied to organizational design. As a lifelong learner, Noah has masters' degrees in National Security & Strategy (from the U.S. Naval War College), Operational Studies (from the School of Advanced Warfighting at Marine Corps University), Business Administration (from the University of Rhode Island), and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (from Illinois Institute of Technology). He is a member of the American Cybernetics Society and the Operational Research Society. About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, with an update on the cyber aspects of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure act and President Biden's proposed $1.85 trillion Build Back Better initiative as well as the commission's proposals that are likely to be adopted by Congress in upcoming legislation; and J. Michael Daniel, the president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance, discusses the recent worldwide cyber threat report issued by Palo Alto Network's Unit 42 — produced in cooperation with CTA — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission who is also affiliated with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, discusses the status of cyber-related legislation working through the House and Senate, key cyber attributes of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure being debated by lawmakers, future cyber priorities, addressing long-standing and pervasive operating systems vulnerabilities across US military systems and networks, the defense budget outlook including the prospects of debt-driven spending constraints, and how the new Australia-United States-United Kingdom deal to furnish Canberra with new nuclear-powered attack submarines can be executed and what Washington has to do to address France's concerns with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Back at last from hiatus, the podcast finds a host of hot issues to cover. Matthew Heiman walks us through all the ways that China and the U.S. found to get in each other's way on technology. China's new data security and privacy laws take effect this fall, and in keeping with a longstanding theme of the podcast—that privacy law is mostly about protecting the privilege of the powerful—we muse on the ways that legal innovations in the West have empowered China's rulers. The SEC is tightening the screws on Chinese companies that want to list on American exchanges. Meanwhile, SenseTime is going forward with a $2 billion IPO in Hong Kong despite being subject to the stiffest possible Commerce Department sanctions. Talk about decoupling! In Washington, remarkably, a bipartisan breach notification law is moving “We Can't Run a Twelfth-Century Regime Without WhatsApp!” through both House and Senate. Michael Ellis explains the unorthodox (but hardly unprecedented) path the law is likely to take—a “preconference” followed by attachment to the defense authorization bill scheduled to pass this fall.  I ask Brian Egan for the tech fallout from the fall of the U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan. All things considered, it's modest. Despite hand-wringing over data left behind, that data may not be really accessible. Google isn't likely to turn over government emails to the new regime, if only because US sanctions make that legally risky. The Taliban's use of WhatsApp is likely to suffer from the same sanctions barrier.  I predict a Taliban complaint that it's being forced to run a thirteenth century regime with twelfth century technology. Meanwhile, Texas Republicans are on a roll, as Democrats forced to return to the State House sit on their hands. They've adopted a creative and aggressive antiabortion law that has proven a challenge to tech companies, which responded by canceling tech services for pro-life groups and promising to defend gig workers who are caught up in litigation. Texas has kept pace, adopting a bill that limits Silicon Valley censorship of political speech; it raises many of the same issues as the Florida statute, but without the embarrassing prostration before the Disney theme park empire. I ask whether Texas could have used the same tactics for its interpretation of Section 230 that it used in the abortion bill—authorizing private suits but not government enforcement. Such tactics work when there is a real possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn some settled circuit rulings, and section 230 is ripe for exactly that. Matthew Heiman and I debate whether the Justice Department's dropping of several Chinese visa fraud cases heralds a retrenchment in the department's China Initiative. Michael and I dig into the Apple decision to alienate the Guardians of Privacy in an effort to do something about child sex abuse material on iPhones—and Apple's recent decision to alienate the rest of the country by casting doubt on whether it would ever do something about child sex abuse material on its phones. Finally, in quick hits, Brian doubts the significance of claims that the Israeli government is launching an investigation of  NSO Group over spyware abuse. Michael picks apart the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report card on Congress's progress implementing its recommendations. And Brian highlights the UK's new and much tougher version of CFIUS, the National Security and Investment Act 2021. I turn that into career advice for our listeners. And more! Download the 373rd Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

To become organized for cybersecurity, agencies need to get their data organized. Beyond data lakes or data stores, important as they are, the government needs what you might call a concept of operations. That's where one of the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission's top recommendations comes in. For more, the Federal Drive spoke with the Senior Director for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Robert Morgus.

On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, discusses his strategy to improve the defense of Guam, improving America's ability to deter China, the Asia-Pacific implications of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Vice President Kamala Harris' trip to Asia with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

The White House's National Cyber Director, Chris Inglis, says federal agencies need more authoritative data on the threats they face. Inglis is advising Congress to establish a Bureau of Cyber Statistics within the Homeland Security Department. Its purpose would be to get a big picture look at cyber threats. The bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission first recommended creating this bureau, and now members are introducing measures to make the bureau a reality. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has more.

Recommendations for creating a Bureau of Cyber Statistics Sen. Angus King (I-ME), chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses reasons to establish a new cyber statistics bureau and priorities for the national cyber director The importance of securing contractor PIV cards Michael Missal, inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs, goes over findings about adequately tracking contractor personal identify verification cards Challenges and opportunities for OFPP leadership Angela Styles, partner at Akin Gump, and Jim Williams, partner at Schambach & Williams Consulting, discuss priorities for the next leader of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, discusses key takeaways from the 23-page “A Report on the Fighting Culture of the United States Navy Surface Fleet” he co-wrote with Lt. Gen. Robert “Rooster” Schmidle, PhD, USMC Ret., how to improve Surface Force culture, capabilities, readiness and warfighting with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week's Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Dr. Erica Borghard, senior Cyberspace Solarium Commission director who is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Martin Howard, a retired British senior security official who served at MoD, NATO and GCHQ and is now the senior team leader for NATO and cyber for Universal Defence and Security Solutions, discuss the decision by NATO to elevate cyber to an Article V mutual defense issue, cyber deterrence, improving alliance cyber resilience as well as defense and offense, and stepping up the security of member nation's commercial networks, and the difference between intelligence gathering and malicious activity with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

Thursday, May 20, 2021 Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Hoover Institution along with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Europe Center host Security in the Age of Liberal Democratic Erosion​ on Thursday, May 13 and Thursday, May 20. Cosponsored by the Hoover Institution, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Europe Center, the virtual two-part panel series Security in the Age of Liberal Democratic Erosion will focus on the critical security challenges facing liberal democracies and examine the threats of external adversaries and how democracies can respond.  Liberal democracy rests on the rule of law and common trust in fundamental institutions such as elections, courts, legislatures, and the executive branches of government. Yet both in the United States and elsewhere, trust in these institutions has eroded as charges of fake news, electoral fraud, biased courts, and increased authoritarianism have taken hold. On May 13, 2021, the discussion will focus on Adversaries: how foreign actors such as Russia, China, and Iran interact with domestic threats to institutions and the functioning of liberal democracy. Panelists will examine dangers of sharp and soft power, misinformation, and attacks on sensitive electoral and physical infrastructure. The featured experts will be Elizabeth Economy, Michael McFaul, Abbas Milani, and Kate Starbird.  On May 20, 2021, the discussion will focus on appropriate Responses, and whether and how liberal democracies should respond to these threats. Panelists will address the tools and policies available to combat such hazards, as well as their limitations. The featured experts will be Rose Gottemoeller, H. R. McMaster, Jacquelyn Schneider, and Amy Zegart.  Both panel discussions will be moderated by Anna Grzymala-Busse and held at 10:00–11:15 am PDT via Zoom and are open to the public. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Rose Gottemoeller is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She also serves as the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC).  H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michele Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and was the twenty-sixth assistant to the president for national security affairs. He served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a lieutenant general in June 2018. He is author of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World (2020). Jacquelyn Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution.  Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, unmanned technologies, and Northeast Asia.  She is a non-resident fellow at the Naval War College's Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute and a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Amy Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Chair of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and International Security Steering Committee, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She specializes in U.S. intelligence, emerging technologies and national security, grand strategy, and global political risk management. ABOUT THE MODERATOR Anna Grzymala-Busse is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Grzymala-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor in the Department of Political Science, the director of the Europe Center, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford. Her research focuses on religion and politics, authoritarian political parties and their successors, and the historical development of the state.

Podcast: Hack the Plant (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Congressman, The Commission, and Our Critical InfrastructurePub date: 2021-04-26Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) has been instrumental in setting up the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a bipartisan, intragovernmental body whose goal is to help create a strategic approach to defending the United States from cyber attacks of significant consequence (and for listeners of this podcast, that definitely means attacks on our critical infrastructure). Congressman Gallagher's background in the Marines, and work in the public and private sectors, gives him a unique position to help create law around the intersection of national security and cybersecurity as the two become "kitchen table issues", as he tells his constituents. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bryson Bort, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) has been instrumental in setting up the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a bipartisan, intragovernmental body whose goal is to help create a strategic approach to defending the United States from cyber attacks of significant consequence (and for listeners of this podcast, that definitely means attacks on our critical infrastructure). Congressman Gallagher's background in the Marines, and work in the public and private sectors, gives him a unique position to help create law around the intersection of national security and cybersecurity as the two become "kitchen table issues", as he tells his constituents. 

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, USN (ret.), executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Kiersten Todt, the managing director of The Cyber Readiness Institute and president of Liberty Group Ventures discuss the Biden Administration's proposed cyber leadership team, priorities and first-hundred day decisions.

Our interview is with Mark Montgomery and John Costello, both staff to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. The commission, which issued its main report more than a year ago, is swinging through the pitch, following up with new white papers, draft legislative language and enthusiastic advocacy for its recommendations in Congress, many of which were adopted last year. That makes it the most successful of the many cybersecurity commissions that have come and gone in Washington. And it's not done yet. Mark and John review several of the most important legislative proposals the commission will be following this year. I don't agree with all of them, but they are all serious ideas and it's a good bet that a dozen or more could be adopted in this Congress. In the news roundup, David Kris and I cover the FBI's use of a single search warrant to remove a large number of web shells from computers infected by China's irresponsible use of its access to Microsoft Exchange. The use of a search (or, more accurately, a seizure warrant)  is a surprisingly far-reaching interpretation of Federal Criminal Rule 41. But despite valiant efforts, David is unable to disagree with my earlier expressed view that the tactic is lawful. Brian Egan outlines what's new in the Biden administration's sanctions on Russia for its SolarWinds exploits. The short version: While some of the sanctions break new ground, as with Russian bonds, they do so cautiously. Paul Rosenzweig, back from Costa Rica, unpacks a hacking story that has everything—terrorism, the FBI, Apple, private sector hacking and litigation. Short version: we now know the private firm that saved Apple from the possibility of an order to hack its own phone. It's an Australian firm named Azimuth that apparently only works for democratic governments but that is nonetheless caught up in Apple's bully-the-cybersecurity-researchers litigation campaign. Gus Hurwitz talks to us about the seamy side of content moderation (or at least on seamy side) – the fight against “coordinated inauthentic behaviour.” In quicker takes, Paul gives us a master class in how to read the intel community's Annual Threat Assessment.  David highlights what may be the next Chinese  telecom manufacturing target, at least for the GOP, after Huawei and ZTE. I highlight the groundbreaking financial industry breach notification rule that has finished and is moving toward adoption. And Gus summarizes the state of Silicon Valley antitrust legislation—everyone has a bill—so no one is likely to get a bill. Download the 358th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

This week we catch up with Lisa Donnan, Partner at Option3 Ventures to discuss the world of cyber venture capital and private equity and the importance of disruptive technology and commercialization for breaking through the white noise of the more than 3,500 cyber start-ups today. And she shares insights on why the SMB market is a $50B opportunity for cyber, why the U.S. needs a cyber moonshot to catch up, the criticality of security by design and why Cyberspace Solarium Commission is a good start but, ultimately, as we consider public/private partnerships’ success ahead who carries the stick for actions, accountability and milestones? And, Eric recommends his favorite book of the week “Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” by Adam Grant. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e129

It has been a little over a year since the release of the blockbuster Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report. A significant number of the Commission's over 50 legislative proposals were adopted in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020. We've brought together an esteemed group of NSI's emerging technologies and cybersecurity experts to discuss the impact of the Commission, the implementation of its recommendations, and what there is left to do to protect Americans in cyberspace.Featured Experts Include:Matt Hayden, NSI Visiting Fellow and former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience PolicyJC Herz, NSI Visiting Fellow and COO of Ion ChannelKiersten Todt, NSI Visiting Fellow, Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute, and CEO of Liberty Group Venturesand Moderator Megan Brown, NSI Senior Fellow, Co-Director of NSI's Emerging Technologies and Cybersecurity working group, and Partner at Wiley Rein LLPBe sure to subscribe to NSI Live to get all of these conversations and more! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On January 14, 2021, the CNAS Technology and National Security Program hosted a virtual panel to discuss the challenges, findings. and recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission white paper, "Building a Trusted ICT Supply Chain." Speakers for this event included Congressman Mike Gallagher, Co-Chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission; Dr. Sarah Sewall, Executive Vice President for Policy at In-Q-Tel; Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin; and RADM Mark Montgomery, USN (Ret.), Executive Director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Martijn Rasser, Senior Fellow at CNAS, moderated this event.

You may have heard of the SolarWinds hack. Or, maybe not. News of the incident began trickling out slowly, in the midst of the U.S. election dispute and rising COVID-19 numbers. But the more we've learned about the attack, the more clear it's become that this is a big deal. Brainstorm hosts Michal Lev-Ram and Brian O'Keefe explain how the attack was carried out, who was involved, and what the fallout may be. They are assisted by Fortune writer David Z. Morris, and Dmitri Alperovitch, Chair of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, and founder and previous CTO of CrowdStrike, a large cybersecurity company. Then the conversation shifts to prevention. Protecting our country from sophisticated cyber espionage will require some big changes. Suzanne Spaulding helps tell this part of the story. She's a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. She formerly ran cybersecurity infrastructure in the Department of Homeland Security.

It's a story that has everything, except a reporter able to tell it. A hostile state attacking the U.S. power grid is a longstanding and quite plausible national security concern. The Trump administration was galvanized by the threat, even seizing Chinese power equipment at the port to do a detailed breakdown and then issuing an executive order and follow-up rulings designed to cut Chinese products from the supply chain. Yet the Biden administration suspended this order for 90 days—the only Trump cybersecurity order to be called into question so far. Industry lobbying? Chinese maneuvering? Tech uncertainty?  No one knows, but Brian Egan and I at least sketch the outlines of an irresistible story that will have to wait for a persistent journalist. The SolarWinds story needs a new moniker, as the compromises spread beyond the scope of SolarWinds distributions to victims like Malwarebytes. Increasingly, it looks as though Microsoft and its cloud are the common denominators, Sultan Meghji and I observe, but that's one moniker the story will never acquire. In other cyber news, the Chinese are stealing airline passenger reservation data, Sultan notes. Maybe they're just trying to find out when Mike Pompeo next plans to come to China so they can meet him at the airport and enforce their latest sanctions—no Great Wall tours for you, Mr. Secretary! This is our last week of Trumpian cyber news, so we wallow in it. The President issued a last-minute order calling for an assessment of the security risks of Chinese drones, Maury Shenk tells us. And Brian unpacks the other last-minute order requiring U.S. cloud providers to know which foreigners they are selling virtual machines to. I claim victory in my short letter to former Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, suggesting that, instead of jamming a cryptocurrency regulation through on his watch, he concentrates on convincing the newly confirmed Secretary Janet Yellen to carry through.  If he took my advice, it seems to have worked. Sultan reports that she is showing signs of wanting to "curtail" cryptocurrency.  In other news, Sultan boldly predicts the advent of interplanetary cryptocurrency in Elon Musk's lifetime. Brian and I unpack the latest Cyberspace Solarium Commission product—Transition Book—which is persuasive for the Biden administration. I predict that the statutorily mandated cybersecurity director will have to be subordinated to the deputy national security adviser for cybersecurity for the office to be accepted in the administration. And in quick hits, Maury covers the surprisingly robust European enforcement of employee protections against video surveillance. I explain Parler's loss in trying to overturn the Amazon Web Services ban that pushed it off the internet. Sultan explains why the Biden Peloton is a cybersecurity risk, and I tip my hat to the president's physical fitness.   I summarize the Michael Ellis story; he held the job of NSA's general counsel for about a day before a political witch-hunt caught up with him, and may never serve another day.   And, finally, a little schadenfreude for the European Parliament, which is being investigated by the EU's lead data regulator for poor cookie notices on a website it set up for Members of the European Parliament to book coronavirus tests. The complainant? Max Schrems, who is on his way to becoming as unpopular with European politicos as he is in the U.S. And more!   Download the 346th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Another week, another Trump administration initiative to hasten the decoupling from China. As with MIRV warheads, the theory seems to be that the next administration can't shoot them all down.  Brian Egan lays out this week's initiative, which lifts from obscurity a DoD list of Chinese military companies and excludes them from U.S. capital markets. Our interview is with Frank Cilluffo and Mark Montgomery. Mark is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior advisor to the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Previously, he served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under Sen. John S. McCain—and before that served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017. Frank is director of Auburn University's McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. He also chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Council's subcommittee on economic security. We talk about the unexpected rise of the industrial supply chain as a national security issue. Both Frank and Mark were moving forces in two separate reports highlighting the issue, as was I. So, if we seem suspiciously agreed on important issues, it's because we are. Still, as an introduction to one of the surprise hot issues of the year, it's not to be missed. After our interview of a Justice Department official on how to read Schrems II narrowly, it was only a matter of time. Charles Helleputte reviews the EDPB's effort to give more authoritative and less comfortable advice to U.S. companies that want to keep relying on the standard contractual clauses. Still, the Justice Department take on the topic manages to squeak through without a direct hit from the privacy bureaucrats.  Still, the EDPB (and the EDPS even more) makes clear that anyone following the DOJ's lead is in for an uphill fight. For those who want more of Charles's thinking on the topic, see this short piece. Zoom has been allowed to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proceeding for deceptive conduct (claiming that its crypto was end to end when it wasn't, and more). Mark MacCarthy gives us details. I rant about the FTC's failure to ask any serious national security questions about a company that deserves some. Brian brings us up to speed on TikTok.  Only one of the Trump administration penalties remains unenjoined. My $50 bet with Nick Weaver that CFIUS will overcome judicial skepticism that IEEPA could not is hanging by a thread. Casey Stengel makes a brief appearance to explain how TikTok might win. Brian also reminds us that export control policymaking is even slower and less functional on the other side of the Atlantic, as Europe tries, mostly ineffectively, to adopt stricter limits on exports of surveillance tech. Mark and I admire the new Aussie critical-infrastructure cybersecurity initiative, mostly for its clarity if not for its political appeal. Charles explains and I decry the enthusiasm of European courts for telling Americans what they can say and read on line. Apparently, we aren't allowed to use Facebook to call politicians “fascists”; but don't worry about our liability. So, in retrospect, how did we do in policing all the new cyber-ish threats to the 2020 election?  Brian gives the government credit for preventing foreign interference. I question the whole narrative of foreign interference (other than the hack and dump operation against the DNC) in 2016 and 2020, noting how conveniently it serves Democratic messaging (Hillary only lost because of the Russians! Ignore Trump's corruption allegations because it's more Russian interference!). Mark and I wonder what Silicon Valley thinks it's accomplishing with its extended bans on political advertising after the election.  They're going to find out it's almost always election season somewhere (see, e.g., Georgia). DHS's CISA produced a detailed rumor control site that may have corrected one too many of the President's tweets.  Chris Krebs, familiar to Cyberlaw Podcast listeners, may be on the chopping block. That would be a shame for DHS and CISA; for Chris it's probably a badge of honor. Frank Cilluffo and Mark Montgomery weigh in with praise for Chris as well. And more. Download the 338th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

In using data to bring infrastructure online, cybersecurity conversations tend to focus on everything going wrong. With Laura Bate, a director of cyber engagement at the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Barbara delves into a world in which everything goes right instead.

Cyberspace is a decisive battlefield that puts every American – wittingly or not – on the frontline of a new kind of conflict. Yet while the threats in this domain are severe, the United States has for years lacked a plan to combat these challenges. To address this problem, the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the creation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a bipartisan commission tasked with providing strategic guidance and policy recommendations on how to defend ourselves against cyber threats that is chaired by Rep. Gallagher and Senator Angus King (I-ME). On this NEW Look podcast, Rep. Gallagher is joined by his fellow co-chair Senator Angus King to discuss these threats and the Commission's recommendations to ensure our country is better equipped to defend itself in cyberspace. Senator King, who in addition to being an avid Packers fan is also one of three Independents in Congress, also details the unique way in which he came into politics and ways he works to cut through partisanship and build stronger relationships with his colleagues.

In this episode, we are speaking with Rob Morgus, Director of Research and Analysis at the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission. He is the lead author on a new white paper which uncovers the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the cyber threat landscape. He also explains new cybersecurity priorities the Commission published as a result of lessons from the coronavirus response. Says Morgus: "The bottom line is that the United States on cybersecurity—and now we're experiencing something similar—has experienced a number of wake up calls over the last decade, decade and a half. In 2014, hacking OPM, and we didn't really improve the state of our government cybersecurity in 2015. In 2016, we saw Russia turn off the power grid in Ukraine, and we haven't really taken massive steps to improve the security of our power grid. We saw NotPetya and WannaCry in 2017-2018; we haven't really done much to lock down our critical systems. And now we're experiencing the pandemic, which is a massive disruption. These have all been opportunities for us to wake up and smell the roses, and we continually sort of hit the snooze button. And the main contention, and if you take away one thing from the pandemic white paper, it is that now is the time to invest. We've had plenty of opportunities to say, hey, we need to do this. We should have the foresight to do so, and now I think we're seeing that it's more urgent than ever." Will we heed the wake up call from COVID-19? Also, Trend Micro shares ransomware mitigation techniques for Maze ransomware. SHOW LINKS:  •  Trend Micro research on Maze ransomware mitigation techniques: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/threat-intelligence-center/security-strategies-for-enterprises/ent-threats-ransomware •  White Paper #1 (June 2020) by U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wCHVtIFlw84uZIPOTZe2nkdGau15fLAQ/view •  March 2020 U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report: https://www.solarium.gov/report •  SecureWorld Remote Sessions webcast briefings: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/resources?cat=remote-sessions •  Deep dive web conferences: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/resources?cat=web-conferences The SecureWorld Sessions podcast gives you access to people and ideas that impact your cybersecurity career and help you secure your organization.

Recorded June 2, 2020, 11AM PST Jacquelyn Schneider And Herb Lin Discuss Cyber Power And Peril In the Post-COVID World. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOWS Jacquelyn Schneider is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, and a non-resident fellow at the Naval War College's Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute. She is an active member of the defense policy community with previous positions at the Center for a New American Security and the RAND Corporation. Before beginning her academic career, she spent six years as an Air Force officer in South Korea and Japan and is currently a reservist assigned to US Cyber Command. In 2018, she was included in CyberScoop's Leet List of influential cyber experts.  Dr. Herb Lin is Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution and senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, both at Stanford University.  His research interests relate broadly to policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace, and he is particularly interested in the use of offensive operations in cyberspace as instruments of national policy and in the security dimensions of information warfare and influence operations on national security.  To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report was released into the teeth of the COVID-19 crisis and hasn't attracted the press it probably deserved. But the commissioners included four sitting Congressmen who plan to push for the adoption of its recommendations. And the Commission is going to be producing more material – and probably more press attention – over the coming weeks. In this episode, I interview Sen. Angus King, co-chair of the Commission, and Dr. Samantha Ravich, one of the commissioners. We focus almost exclusively on what the Commission's recommendations mean for the private sector. The Commission has proposed a remarkably broad range of cybersecurity measures for business. The Commission recommends a new products liability regime for assemblers of final goods (including software) who don't promptly patch vulnerabilities. It proposes two new laws requiring notice not only of personal data breaches but also of other significant cyber incidents. It calls for a federal privacy and security law – without preemption. It updates Sarbanes-Oxley to include cybersecurity principles. And lest you think the Commission is in love with liability, it also proposed liability immunities for critical infrastructure owners operating under government supervision during a crisis. We cover all these proposals, plus the Commission's recommendation of a new role for the Intelligence Community in providing support to critical US companies. In the news, Nick Weaver and I dig deep into the Google and Apple proposals for tracking COVID-19 infections. I've got a separate post in the works on the topic, but the short version is that I think Google and Apple have dramatically overvalued privacy interests and downgraded, you know, actually tracking infections. Nick and I agree that the app should operate on an opt-out basis, not opt-in. The Great Decoupling, part 278: It looks as though China Telecom will be getting the boot from US telecom markets, at least if Team Telecom has anything to say about it. And speaking of Team Telecom, Brian Egan tells us that it has a new charter and a new, catchy acronym: CAFPUSTTSS! Nick and I dig into a Ninth Circuit decision that may be bound for the Supreme Court. It holds that Facebook can be held liable for wiretapping when it gets information from its widely deployed “like” buttons on third-party sites. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and the EU has to regulate tech, coronavirus or not. Maury Shenk reports, bemusedly. Matching him bemusement for bemusement, Nick tries to explain a French ruling that Google must pay news outlets for content (and can't stop linking to the outlets). Maury explains the 5G-coronavirus conspiracy that has Brits burning cellular masts. Nick explains how to make a “smart” lock spill its secrets, and how to fall foul of the FTC. And in quick takes, the COVID-19 cyber threat has the US and UK authorities joining hands against cyberattacks, the Australian government is hacking criminals who are exploiting coronavirus, and it turns out that IoT devices may defect to work for foreign intelligence agencies. Download the 311th Episode (mp3). You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.