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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.
1 big thing: Triggered Trump on warpath
Good Wednesday morning … President Trump will be “triggered” by the bleak leaks about the extent and intrusiveness of Robert Mueller’s investigation, and is likely to become more aggressive as he feels more threatened, sources close to the White…
New funding fails to close gaps in election cybersecurity
Politics may also be blocking meaningful executive action on election cybersecurity. Paul Rosenzweig, a senior cybersecurity fellow at the libertarian R Street Institute, suggested that Trump’s unwillingness to confront the Kremlin over its actions…
Is Cybersecurity Improving?
Is cybersecurity improving overall? By at least some measures the answer is a surprising “yes.” This annual report from FireEye gives us at least two reasons to think that trend lines are actually improving: Is cybersecurity improving overall? By at…
Three Cybersecurity Lessons From Atlanta
On March 22, Atlanta’s city government was hit with a ransomware attack, with hackers demanding six bitcoins in exchange for releasing the data. At the time of writing this, that’s a demand for roughly $41,880. As a result of the attack, many systems…
Who Cares About Cybersecurity?
In the professional world of Lawfare (national security, homeland security, intelligence, privacy and civil liberties) nobody would doubt the salience of questions of cybersecurity. They seem to resonate across many dimesions and to pose some of the…
The Sourcebook of Public-Private Partnerships for Security and Resilience 2018: A Compendium of Laws and Policy Documents
This sourcebook is a landmark publication that sets out all the statutes, executive orders, legal issues, and models that are relevant to public-private partnerships. It covers the law as it relates to counterterrorism and non-proliferation, mobility and maritime...
Congressional Testimony: Paul Rosenzweig on Choosing the Right Cybersecurity Standards
STATEMENT of Paul Rosenzweig Senior Fellow, R Street Institute Red Branch Consulting, PLLC Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Washington, D.C. before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Committee on…
Better cybersecurity is critical to protecting future elections
Today, however, the election process is vulnerable to manipulation by hostile powers. We know that (beyond social media manipulation) Russia quite brazenly hacked into the IT systems of political campaign committees and tried to gain access to data…
Information Warfare and Cybersecurity Are Different, Related and Important
Susan Landau pointed last week to a disagreement between the two of us, saying that current definitions of cybersecurity (such as the HSPD-54 that Herb quoted) are outmoded and a new definition is necessary. We agree with Susan, and as we discussed…
Elections are a cybersecurity problem
But from these truths Herb reaches, I think, the wrong conclusion: “a focus on preventing the hacking of election systems is misleading and dangerous—it distracts us from the real danger to the republic today, which is the toxic nature of political…