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

Jan 29, 2015

Moving from Bad to Worse? Looking Back to 2014 and Implications for 2015

By Cyber Statecraft Initiative

On January 21 the Cyber Statecraft Initiative kicked off the 2015 Cyber Risk Wednesday event series with the new exclusive media partner for the series, Passcode, the new outlet of Christian Science Monitor. Shane Harris, senior intelligence and national security correspondent for The Daily Beast, and Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder & chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Jan 28, 2015

Munich Security Report Highlights Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s Report

The Munich Security Conference report highlights Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s “Confidence-Building Measures in Cyberspace” report in the Food for Thought Section under Reports:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Jan 25, 2015

Healey on the Recent Cyber Attack on Sony

By Jason Healey

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey joins Defense News to discuss the recent cyber attack on Sony:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jan 23, 2015

Disaggregating Space, Business, and Politics

By James Hasik

Smaller satellites in bigger constellations could accelerate the restructuring of both the space industry and international security relationships.   Amy Butler of Aviation Week reports today that the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is crafting a strategy to leverage what Director Robert Cardillo calls a pending “explosion” of commercially-available imagery. As Patrick Tucker writes this morning on Defense One, a great deal of the […]

Space Technology & Innovation
Cyber Security

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2015

Quantity of Cyber Attacks Expected to Grow Exponentially in 2015

By David Gelles, New York Times

“The number of security incidents this year will be exponentially greater than last year,” said John Chambers, chief executive of Cisco, the big Silicon Valley technology company.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 22, 2015

‘Heightened Risk’ of Terrorist Attack in West, Top Pentagon Official Says

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Vickers Sees Terrorism and Cyber Attacks as Top Threats to US There is a “heightened risk” of terrorist attacks in the West by groups that have proliferated as a result of the war in Syria and the influence of social media, according to the Pentagon’s top intelligence policy official. Terrorist attacks in Paris this month […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
President Barack Obama, Jan. 25, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2015

Transatlantic Priorities in Obama’s State of the Union Address

By White House

My first duty as commander in chief is to defend the United States of America.

Afghanistan Cybersecurity

In the News

Jan 20, 2015

Gopalaswamy: SpaceX’s Falcon Nine Launch Previews Future of Rocketry

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

South Asia Center Acting Director Bharath Gopalaswamy writes for The Hill on California-based SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft:

Space Technology & Innovation
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nov. 15, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2015

Dempsey: Cyber is the Only Domain in Which US has Peer Competitors

By Chris Wallace and Martin Dempsey, Fox News

Excerpt from interview of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey by Chris Wallace, January 11, 2015.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jan 9, 2015

Unmanned Manning Problems

By James Hasik

Is the USAF trying hard enough to find drone pilots?   The US Air Force is looking for a few good drone operators. The hours are long. The work environment is substantially contained within conex boxes rigged as command centers. The business can get grim, at least on the other end of that video feed. As the squadron commander says […]

Drones Technology & Innovation

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