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Event Recap

Nov 7, 2017

Report Launch: Aviation Cybersecurity–Finding Lift, Minimizing Drag

By Safa Shahwan

On November 7, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative launched its first-ever report on Aviation Cybersecurity—Finding Lift, Minimizing Drag, underwritten by Thales. The event featured a keynote by Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at the US Department of Homeland Security.

Cybersecurity

Report

Nov 7, 2017

Aviation cybersecurity—Finding lift, minimizing drag

By Pete Cooper

The aviation industry is faced with a complex and critical challenge to carefully balance costs with evolving business imperatives, customer demands, and safety standards.

Cybersecurity English
Cyber NATO

NATOSource

Nov 7, 2017

NATO Preparing New Doctrine for Cyber Operations

By Morgan Chalfant, The Hill

Merle Maigre, who directs NATO’s cyber center headquartered in Tallin, Estonia, outlined the alliance’s multi-pronged efforts on cybersecurity during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Cybersecurity NATO

Defense Industrialist

Oct 28, 2017

Aerospace revelations: What could possibly go wrong?

By Steven Grundman

The Four Horsemen in the Book of Revelations, let us recall, are no cowpokes but terrible harbingers of the end of times, each marked by the color of the horse he rides to summon a hardship which by degrees is more cataclysmic than the last. Holding that allusion in mind, I use the seasonal tradition of AerospaceDefenseChain to harvest my critical thinking about the things that could possibly go wrong and turn to doom and dust today’s happy outlook on the second century of aerospace. Put differently, “How could we screw this up?”

Defense Industry Economy & Business

In the News

Oct 26, 2017

Kramer in Cipher Brief: Raising the Drawbridge with an “International Cyber Stability Board”

By Franklin D. Kramer

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Oct 20, 2017

Carpenter Quoted in WJLA on Russian Interference in US Elections

By Michael Carpenter

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity Russia
A EUCOM Joint Multinational Training Exercise, Sept. 18, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2017

US and NATO Allies Grapple with Countering Russia’s Cyber Offensive

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

NATO’s long-standing tactical advantage on the battlefield could be at risk as cyber adversaries probe for weak points in the U.S.-led security pact’s networks, a top alliance official said.

Cybersecurity NATO

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Oct 19, 2017

A strategy for the Trans-Pacific century

By Matthew Kroenig and Miyeon Oh

According to some projections, the majority of all global economic activity could take place within Asia by 2050. Military might often follows economic power, and Asian countries are already spending more than European states on defense. Both of these developments reflect a broader shift in global power from West to East.

Europe & Eurasia Indo-Pacific

Event Recap

Oct 11, 2017

Cyber Risk Wednesday: Building a More Defensible Cyberspace

By Priscilla Kim

On September 28, 2017, the New York Cyber Task Force released a series of recommendations that would help make it easier to defend cyberspace without sacrificing the utility, flexibility, and convenience that has made the Internet so essential to our economies and personal lives. At this Washington, DC launch event, the task force members discussed […]

Cybersecurity
Defending democracy in the digital era

NATOSource

Oct 9, 2017

Time for a Cyber NATO?

By Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Washington Post

Beyond elections, cyberwarfare has made traditional rules governing armed conflict irrelevant.

Cybersecurity NATO

Experts