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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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Is multiple choice the right way to go on cybersecurity standards?
WASHINGTON — Despite the constant cyber threat, regulators are giving banks flexibility to choose which cybersecurity framework suits them, an approach hailed by the industry. A recent statement by the federal banking agencies highlighting four…
Will international trade law block IOT cybersecurity regulation?
Joel Trachtman thinks it’s a near certainty that the WTO agreements will complicate US efforts to head off an Internet of Things cybersecurity meltdown, and there’s a real possibility that a US cybersecurity regime could be held to violate our…
Microsoft, Hewlett Foundation preparing to launch nonprofit that calls out cyberattacks
Microsoft and the Hewlett Foundation are preparing to launch a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing the details of harmful cyberattacks and providing assistance to victims in an effort to highlight their costs, CyberScoop has learned. Known…
How to Measure Cybersecurity
Amazon Web Services presenter at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2018 Cybersecurity Awareness Day. Paul Rosenzweig observed recently on Lawfare that there are “no universally recognized, generally accepted metrics by which to…
State Election Infrastructure Is Still Vulnerable, Report Finds
According to a recent report, “Defending Elections: Federal Funding Needs for State Election Security,” many election security projects at the state level are either unfunded or underfunded. The report calls on the federal government to provide more…
Louisiana Democratic Party Endorses Gwen Collins-Greenup for Louisiana Secretary of State
A report from the Brennan Center, Alliance for Securing Democracy, R Street Institute and Pitt Cyber found that Louisiana still hasn’t addressed critical cybersecurity concerns surrounding our elections. These issues still haven’t been addressed…
Initiative Will Explore Whether Cybersecurity is Art or Science
Paul Rosenzweig, formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security and founder of a homeland security consulting company, observes that cybersecurity resembles obscenity — we know it when we see it even if we can’t…
Preliminary Observations on the Utility of Measuring Cybersecurity
Of late, I have become increasingly interested in this apparent gap. The problem is that the lack of good metrics is (or seems likely to be) debilitating. My hypothesis is that, when governments, commercial actors and private citizens think about new…
Protecting US Elections Needs Much More Federal Money: Report
The report, which was also sponsored by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, R Street Institute and University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security, examined six states, finding that all had taken steps to shore up…
The Cybersecurity 202: States don’t have enough money to secure the 2020 election, new report warns
The trade-offs highlighted in the report are likely common among most of the 50 states, Lawrence Norden, director of the Election Reform Program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, told me. The Brennan Center was another sponsor of…