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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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Jun 13, 2012

NATO Warns Australia ‘Regular’ Target of Cyber Attacks

By Enda Curran and Rachel Pannett, the Wall Street Journal

From Enda Curran and Rachel Pannett, the Wall Street Journal:  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Australia’s government and banks have become regular targets of cyber hackers

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 13, 2012

Secretary General: ‘NATO and Australia are ideal partners’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  From Gallipoli to Uruzgan, your men and women have been on the front line – fighting for freedom. 

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2012

Post-Stuxnet: The era of computer-mediated destruction has begun

By R. Scott Kemp, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

From R. Scott Kemp, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:  While digital spying has taken place for decades, the era of computer-mediated destruction has only recently begun.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 9, 2012

NATO experts warn that intelligent cyber weapons may get out of control

By AFP

From AFP:  Quick advances in cyber war technologies could soon lead to a new generation of so-called "intelligent cyber weapons" which top global IT defence experts warn could be virtually unstoppable.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 8, 2012

Germany reveals offensive cyberwarfare capability

By DPA

From DPA:  German authorities confirmed Tuesday in a parliamentary document that their military possesses a top secret cyberwarfare unit which is already operational

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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Jun 4, 2012

Stuxnets are Not in the US National Interest: An Arsonist Calling for Better Fire Codes

By Jason Healey, the New Atlanticist

From Jason Healey, the New Atlanticist:  The United States government has apparently struck a blow against the Iranian nuclear enrichment capability by using Stuxnet to disable centrifuges.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2012

Stuxnets are Not in the US National Interest: An Arsonist Calling for Better Fire Codes

By Jason Healey

The United States government has apparently struck a blow against the Iranian nuclear enrichment capability by using Stuxnet to disable centrifuges.   While this cyber weapon destroyed centrifuges and seized up the enrichment process, the cost in American cyber power ultimately will not have been worth these limited gains.

Cybersecurity Iran

Cyber 9/12 Project

Jun 1, 2012

Cyber 9/12 Project: The Role of the Media During a Cyber Crisis

By Jason Harmala

On June 1, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted “Cyber 9/12 Project: The Role of the Media During a Cyber Crisis.” The event launched an issue brief containing key recommendations stemming from the Cyber 9/12 Project, and continued the discussion with Robert J. Giesler and Tom Gjelten on the role the media plays during […]

Cybersecurity

NATOSource

Jun 1, 2012

Cartwright: “We built the F-35 with absolutely no protection for it from a cyber standpoint”

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense

From Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense:  [Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James] Cartwright fears the Pentagon’s most expensive program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, might prove to be as vulnerable to enemy hackers as the old under-armored Humvees were to roadside bombs.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 1, 2012

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

By David E. Sanger, the New York Times

From David E. Sanger, the New York Times:  From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
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Experts

Fellow

Andrea Rigoni

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

Fellow

Trevor H. Rudolph

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoTech Center

Cybersecurity Europe & Eurasia

Staff

Audrey Roh

Project Assistant

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Cybersecurity Japan

Fellow

Yasmine Abdillahi

Nonresident Fellow

Africa Center

Africa Cybersecurity

Fellow

Chinmayi Sharma

Nonresident Fellow

Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

Staff

Urmita Chowdhury

Assistant Director, Trainings and Competitions

Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Bengali Cybersecurity
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