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The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Technology Programs, works at the nexus of geopolitics and cybersecurity to craft strategies to help shape the conduct of statecraft and to better inform and secure users of technology.

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In the News

Oct 6, 2014

Healey on the “Tipping Point for the Future of the Free Internet”

By Jason Healey

The Bermuda Royal Gazette quotes Cyber Statecraft Director Jason Healey on the threats to a free internet:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Oct 3, 2014

Healey on Cyber Attacks in Bermuda

By Jason Healey

The Bermuda Royal Gazette quotes Cyber Security Initiative Director Jason Healey on Bermuda’s ability to protect itself from cyber attacks:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sept. 1, 2014

NATOSource

Sep 19, 2014

Report: Kremlin Considering Steps to Disconnect Russia from the Internet During Emergencies

By Anna Smolchenko and Olga Rotenberg, AFP

Russia is considering measures to protect its cyberspace from the “unpredictable” West, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Friday after a newspaper said Moscow was contemplating unplugging the Internet during protests or war.

Cybersecurity Russia
U.S. Air Force personnel, 2010

NATOSource

Sep 18, 2014

NATO Official: ‘Very Alarming’ Cyber Threat Level for at Least Ten Years

By Warwick Ashford, Computer Weekly

The “very alarming” level of cyber threats organisations face is unlikely to fall for at least ten years, according to Suleyman Anil, head of cyber defence head at the emerging security challenges division of Nato.

Cybersecurity NATO
Members of Ukraine participating in exercise Combined Endeavor 2011 in Grafenwoehr, Germany.

NATOSource

Sep 12, 2014

NATO Must Boost Its Cyber Defense Capabilities Now

By Klara Tothova Jordan, Defense One

NATO must expeditiously operationalize the Enhanced Cyber Defense Policy endorsed at the summit, which reinforces that NATO members will work together to build up the alliance’s cyber defenses.

Cybersecurity NATO

In the News

Sep 4, 2014

Tothova Jordan: Would NATO Go to War Over a Cyberattack?

By Klara Tothova Jordan

Brent Scowcroft Center Assistant Director Klara Tothova Jordan writes for the National Interest on the new plan NATO will present for improving cyberdefense: 

Cybersecurity NATO

Article

Sep 3, 2014

Building a Pluralist Future for the Internet

By Alexander Klimburg

This Week’s Internet Conference in Istanbul Follows an Historic Debate at Brazil’s NETmundial  “History,” John W. Gardner reputedly said, “never looks like history when you are living through it.” Maybe that is why one of the recent years’ biggest events in shaping the future of the Internet got so little attention recently. Global news media […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove and Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Morenés, July 2, 2014

NATOSource

Sep 1, 2014

Special Summit Series: Spain, Portugal, and NATO

By Jorge Benitez

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the Russia/Ukraine crisis as “the gravest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War.”

Cybersecurity Missile Defense

In the News

Aug 29, 2014

Healey on JPMorgan Cyberattack

By Jason Healey

Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on the cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase & Co.:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Aug 29, 2014

NATO’s Cyber Capabilities: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

By Jason Healey and Klara Tothova Jordan

For over a decade, NATO has greatly improved its cyber capabilities. In a new issue brief, “NATO’s Cyber Capabilities: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Jason Healey, director, and Klara Tothova Jordan, assistant director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council, argue that there is still much […]

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Experts

Staff

Sara Ann Brackett

Assistant Director

Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Cybersecurity
John S. Park

Fellow

John Park

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Economic Statecraft Initiative Indo-Pacific Security Initiative

Cybersecurity English

Fellow

Victor Atkins

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management Cybersecurity

Staff

Nitansha Bansal

Assistant director

Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity

Fellow

Tyson Barker

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

Millennium fellow

Dan Black

Principal Threat Analyst, NATO

Millennium Leadership Program

Cybersecurity Intelligence
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