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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
Paul Rosenzweig is a prolific author, read a sampling of some of Paul’s most notable publications.
Code Review: Making Space for More Voices in Cybersecurity
The world could benefit from more collaboration between experts as diverse as the cybersecurity challenges we face. This is the basis for the R Street Institute’s new campaign, “Making Space,” which is a pledge to ensure that expert voices from…
Barr shielded Trump from Congress, Mueller and the law, but couldn’t save him from voters
Nearly 500 years ago, King Henry VIII sacked his most loyal courtier, Thomas Cromwell, removing him from office and then beheading him. Today, Attorney General William Barr suffers the same Cromwellian fate, his sycophantic fealty to President Donald…
The Cybersecurity 202: Chris Krebs found another way to defend election after his firing: Suing the Trump campaign
Rosenzweig described the lawsuit as “not a slam dunk winner, but certainly a lot less outrageous than Sidney Powell’s Kraken suits,” a reference to a series of error-ridden lawsuits from a Trump-allied lawyer alleging widespread electoral fraud,…
Don’t Politicize Our Election Process
One of us has observed the first democratic elections in countries like Chile, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine — never thinking that our country would cease to be the model to emulate. The other of us has served as a…
A National Cybersecurity Agenda for Resilient Digital Infrastructure
The Aspen Cybersecurity Group is a forum for a diverse range of voices, and this report draws on the advice and expertise of a variety of outside partners, colleagues, and across industry, government, and civil society. As with any attempt to distill…
Donald Trump has assaulted our democracy
Georgia has certified President Trump’s electoral loss. His Giuliani-led effort to overturn the results in Pennsylvania was rejected by a federal judge as an “unhinged” “Frankenstein monster.” And in Michigan and Arizona, Trump’s efforts to overturn…
R Street Leads Group of Over 150 former national security officials warning of risks in Biden transition delay
We write to urge you to promptly name Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the apparent President-elect and Vice President-elect under the Presidential Transition Act (the “Act”). We are former national security, senior military, and elected officials,…
Gloves Come Off as Trump, Biden Talk Foreign Policy
“Digital intimidation is of only modest importance,” said Paul Rosenweig, Resident Senior Fellow for National Security & Cybersecurity at R Street Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank. “What it really is more about is activation in the real…
Video: Contours of a National Cyber Strategy: Technical and Policy Perspectives
The purpose of this webinar is to initiate a discussion concerning the security and safety of cyberspace for individuals and nation-states and to act as ground research for proposing cyber policy initiatives and priorities of cybersecurity at…
Security Pros’ Vital Role in Thwarting Election Disinformation
In recent election cycles, the impact of misinformation and disinformation on our democratic institutions has grown in direct proportion to the awareness of how easily social media allows the manipulation of information. The turbulence surrounding…