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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.
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…
Cybersecurity predictions for 2018
There will be at least one large-scale data breach, if not more. Just as 2017 brought us the Yahoo breach and the massive Equifax losses, there is no reason at all – none – to think 2018 will be any safer. While we can’t say exactly who will be the…
‘Other than that Mrs. Lincoln …’
And yet I was reminded of it when reflecting on the first year of the Trump presidency because to separately evaluate conventional benchmarks apart from the extreme transgressions of decency is as impossible a task as asking Mrs. Lincoln to assess…
A Brief Personal Note
I am pleased to announce that today I started a new affiliation as a Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute. R Street is a self-described “free-market think tank with a pragmatic approach to public policy challenges.” What does that mean? As they…
ABA Cybersecurity for Lawyers Handbook
The American Bar Association has released the second edition of it’s handbook for professionals. The American Bar Association has released the second edition of it’s handbook for professionals. Entitled (rather unimaginatively :-)), “The ABA…
Melissa Hathaway on The Future of Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway was a senior cybersecurity adviser to President George W. Bush and led President Barack Obama’s cyberspace policy review. She always has something intersting to say. For a slow Sunday as await the start of a busy week, here is a…
Unpacking Uranium One: Hype and Law
The latest instance of “what-aboutism” is the House Republican decision to open an investigation of the Uranium One transaction—the allegation that Hillary Clinton transferred control of 20% of America’s uranium mining output to a Russian company, in…
Protecting Electoral Infrastructure–Klobuchar/Graham and the NDAA
Our electoral infrastructure consists of two distinct pieces (or so it seems to me): a broader public context in which elections occur and a narrower system of election management. To date, almost everything we know about Russian electoral…