Cyber

The State of Cyber Defense Cooperation in ASEAN
To address the severe cyber threats their economies and critical infrastructure are facing ASEAN countries must strengthen the ASEAN Cyber Defense Network (ACDN) and continue the process of integrating their...

For Xi Jinping, Cyber Is Personal
For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been honing its abilities in cyberspace, attacking any targets with strategic value to the regime, while increasingly integrating cyber as part of...

Will China Become the World’s Technology Superpower?
In today’s fraught international environment, technological innovations such as artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, quantum technology, and space technology generally provide exceptional advantages to states and shape global power competition. China,...

Are the UK’s Cyber Forces Ready to Take on Russia?
The West has strengthened Ukraine’s resolve by providing military hardware that has blunted Russia’s initial offensive and, as the conflict has become more entrenched, will likely prove to be the...

What Can Taiwan Learn From Ukraine’s Cyber Army?
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s main telecommunications and mass media regulator, has long been opaque to outsiders. A recent New York Times report, however, has shed light on the agency’s expansion into censorship...

This Failed Modernization Program Is Still Inspiring Major Army Breakthroughs
It was more than fifteen years ago when the U.S. Army embarked upon a paradigm-shifting modernization effort then known as the Future Combat System (FCS), an elaborate series of weapons,...

Russo-Ukrainian War Highlights Cyber Threats to Satellite Communications
On February 24, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, large parts of American satellite company Viasat’s KA-SAT network of high speed satellite services experienced disruptions resulting in partial network...

U.S. Navy Is Revolutionizing its Computer Network
Here’s What You Need to Remember: In addition, the new effort will integrate NMCI, MCEN and the OCONUS Navy Enterprise Network (ONE-Net). The U.S. Navy operates several of the largest IT...

Lloyd Austin Wants To Bring Nuclear Deterrence Into New Arenas
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Interestingly, Austin frames his discussion of “integrated deterrence” in the context of what could be likened to “nuclear weapons strategic deterrence thinking”—the concept of engineering...

Don’t Underestimate Cyber Attack Threats to Weapons Systems
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Serial buses on older aircraft and combat vehicles may be particularly vulnerable in some instances, a circumstance now driving ongoing Pentagon initiatives to better safeguard data transfer...

The U.S. Navy Wants to Rebuild its Entire Computer Network, Can It?
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Navy procurement may believe that removing the incumbents is “mission accomplished.” However, in doing so, it has imposed an impossible task to those charged with...

Cybersecurity Requires a “Zero Trust” Mindset
Here’s What You Need to Know: Only a strategy based on zero trust offers any chance of successful cyber defense. In the face of repeated major exploitations of critical U.S. networks,...