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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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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 […]

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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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Event Recap

Aug 25, 2014

Jason Healey Speaks at Two Hackers Conferences

Imagine that twenty years after Johannes Gutenberg invented mechanical movable type, the Pope and the petty princes – in fact, anyone who tried hard enough – had the ability to determine exactly who was printing exactly what. Worrying about intellectual property theft, privacy or civil rights violations, had those concepts existed, would be missing the […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 22, 2014

Healey: “New Thinking” Is Needed to Respond to Cyberattacks

By Jason Healey

The Washington Post quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on what is needed in order to respond to the growing number of cyber attacks: 

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 11, 2014

Healey: Saving Cyberspace

By Jason Healey

Bank Info Security interviews Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on his presentation at the Black Hat USA conference, Saving Cyberspace. Listen to the interview here.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 8, 2014

Healey on Deterrence in Cyberspace

By Jason Healey

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey joins Federal News Radio to discuss how deterrence in cyberspace has been possible for decades: 

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News

Aug 8, 2014

Healey in Zeit

By Jason Healey

German-language Zeit quotes Cyber Statecraft Director Jason Healey:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 7, 2014

Healey on the Battle Facing Cyberspace

By Jason Healey

SC Magazine quotes Cyber Statecraft Director Jason Healey on saving cyberspace:

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