Analysis and in-depth research
Our articles, issue briefs, and reports consist of notes from the field and analysis from our team—insights to give you practical leverage on the complex challenges of cybersecurity. A synthesis of technical systems and policy dynamics, cybersecurity demands detailed understanding to create meaningful change. These analyses dig deep into the concepts and assumptions that shape the geopolitics of cybersecurity.
Wed, May 27, 2020
The cybersecurity effects of coronavirus
Since COVID-19 began to spread within the United States in January of this year, the United States has been concentrating its efforts on mitigating the crisis at both a state and federal level. However, all efforts at containing the growing cybersecurity problems have been surface level and reactive at best.
New Atlanticist by
Thu, Apr 30, 2020
Loose cobras: DPRK regime succession and uncertain control over offensive cyber capabilities
Unconfirmed rumors surfaced in mid April 2020 regarding the potential incapacitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, leading to speculation about the ramifications of a sudden transition of leadership in Pyongyang. These rumors raise serious concerns over the stability of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) control of offensive cyber operations capabilities.
Issue Brief by JD Work
Wed, Dec 11, 2019
Aviation cybersecurity: Scoping the challenge
The digital attack surface the aviation sector presents to its adversaries continues to grow in such a way that both managing risk and gaining insight on it remain difficult. With emerging technologies like machine learning and fifth-generation (5G) telecommunications seeing wider adoption—alongside electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), autonomous aircraft, and increased use of space—aviation-cybersecurity risk management is on the cusp of becoming more complex.
Report by Pete Cooper, Simon Handler, Safa Shahwan Edwards
Featured content series
CSI5x5 Series
A series by the Cyber Statecraft Initiative featuring pertinent questions in cybersecurity and incisive expert responses.
Digital Statecraft, Digital Streetcraft Podcasts
A podcast series hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, featuring diverse perspectives from thinkers in academia, industry and government. By bridging the worlds of statecraft and streetcraft, it examines questions at the nexus of information and communications technologies, geopolitics and national security, searching for cooperation to make cyberspace safer, more stable and more secure for all.
Events and convening
Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is a one-of-a-kind cyber competition designed to provide students from across academic disciplines with a deeper understanding of the policy and strategy challenges associated with management of tradeoffs during a cyber crisis.
Cyber Risk Wednesdays
The Cyber Risk Wednesday event series, underwritten by Raytheon, provides the cognitive and physical space to help policymakers, corporate leaders, and the public navigate technology and policy interrelationships in a language that resonates with them, and to inject foresight-driven and multidisciplinary analyses into core cyber debates.
A Virtual Roundtable with the Cyberspace Solarium
A discussion focused on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission report’s findings and recommendations to improve the security of the technology ecosystem by developing better information on which policymakers, industry leaders, and consumers can base their cybersecurity decisions.
Leadership
