The Atlantic Council Technology Programs comprises five existing efforts—the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the GeoTech Center, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, the Democracy + Tech Initiative, and the Capacity Building Initiative. These operations work together to address the geopolitical implications of technology and provide policymakers and global stakeholders necessary research, insights, and convenings to address challenges around global technology and ensure its responsible advancement.

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Event Recap

May 31, 2016

Europe in Cyber Crisis: Mitigating and Preventing Attacks through Interagency Cooperation

By Kathryn Taylor

Hospitals across Europe were crippled when the computer technology in various systems failed. Was it directed by a nation-state, a new type of adversarial attack, or an unintended consequence of our growing dependence on connected technologies? How do various European governments, private sector, and international institutions react in any of these situations? These were some of the policy questions posed in one scenario of a tabletop exercise hosted by the Atlantic Council and Microsoft on May 31, 2016 at the Microsoft Center in Brussels, Belgium.

Cybersecurity

Event Recap

May 27, 2016

Regulators Look for Role in the Internet of Things

By CSM Passcode and Jack Detsch

With more than 20 billion devices getting hooked up to the Internet by 2020, the US government could play a big role in creating rules to eliminate software vulnerabilities in those products. But regulating the potentially $19 trillion so-called Internet of Things (IoT) industry won’t be easy. Officials won’t just need to develop rules for products […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
NATO recognizes a cyber-attack as a potential Article 5 trigger

NATOSource

May 26, 2016

Cyber, extended deterrence, and NATO

By Franklin D. Kramer, Robert J. Butler, and Catherine Lotrionte

Over the last decade, there has been a continuing advancement of the cyber threat in both depth and breadth with the expansion of exploitation, disruption, and destruction activities. In an Internet-connected, net-centric world, military networks and key supporting critical infrastructures are now at significant risk from cyber intrusion. As Admiral Michael Rogers, head of Cyber […]

Cybersecurity NATO

Issue Brief

May 26, 2016

Cyber, extended deterrence, and NATO

By Franklin D. Kramer, Robert J. Butler, and Catherine Lotrionte

Cyber is relevant in conflict as well as in lesser circumstances such as espionage and crime. This paper focuses on a conflict, both conventional and hybrid, with an adversary, such as Russia, that has advanced cyber capabilities (Tier V/VI as designated by the Defense Science Board) and includes a conflict with an improving, but less capable nation-state such as Iran.

Cybersecurity Europe & Eurasia

In the News

May 25, 2016

Corman Testifies Before House Energy and Commerce Committee on Examining Cybersecurity Responsibilities at HHS

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

May 25, 2016

Corman Quoted by Medpage Today on CISO Reporting Structure

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

May 25, 2016

Corman Testimony Quoted by Gov Info Security on the Security of CISOs

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

May 25, 2016

Corman Testimony on Optimizing Cyber Security Quoted by FedScoop

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

FutureSource

May 13, 2016

The Cybersecurity Conundrum

By Robert A. Manning

A quarter-century on, as whole new layers of a burgeoning digital economy like the Internet of Things (IoT) rest on it, the Internet faces an array of challenges from the Dark Side that its inventors never quite anticipated.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

May 13, 2016

Corman’s Keynote at the IoT Conference Quoted by the Register

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Experts