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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.
Cybersecurity Legislation — Something Completely Different
[T]he draft bill consists of four titles:NIST-facilitated, industry-driven process for developing a set of voluntary cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure. These standards will not duplicate or conflict with existing cyber requirements…
Offline — The Chinese Peril
Those who follow my blog posts devoutly (both of you :-)) will be sad to learn that I will be off-line from now until the July 4th holiday. Of course, as with everything I write about, the underlying reason for being off-line has a cybersecurity…
Cyber Threats and Cyber Realities
I am participating today and tomorrow at a seminar at Roger Williams University Law School, entitled Cyber Threats and Cyber Realities. It is being hosted by our Lawfare guest contributor Peter Marguiles.On today’s first panel, I was particularly…
Government Cyber Failures Reveal Weaknesses of Regulatory Approach to Cybersecurity
Last year, the Senate twice voted down the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 because of concerns that a regulatory approach might harm U.S. cybersecurity efforts. Despite these concerns, President Obama issued a cybersecurity executive order that uses a…
The Most Important Cybersecurity Case You’ve Never Heard Of
The case is Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, a civil suit brought in the District of Arizona by the FTC relating to a cybersecurity breach at Wyndham. To understand why the case matters quite a bit, we need to step back and…
Cybersecurity, CFIUS, and the Propose SoftBank Purchase of Sprint-Nextel
Some readers may have read about the ongoing proposal that SoftBank purchase a controlling interest in Sprint/Nextel. As the Washington Post has reported, the Dish network has made a competing offer to purchase Sprint.Not content with the overt…
Gmail and the CIA
I’ve been in Germany all week (at the George C. Marshall Center which, for those who don’t know, is a joint US-Germany military think tank and an altogether wonderful place to visit) so I missed some of the details of the recent arrest of an alleged…
CISPA – An Assessment
As most readers are aware, in the midst of the national turmoil following the bombings in Boston, the House of Representatives passed a version of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 288-127. No entity can…
Cybersecurity, Einstein 3 and Privacy
Einstein 3 is the Federal Government’s expanded system for protecting Federal cyber networks through the inspection of all traffic heading to Federal networks. It is both an intrusion detection and an intrusion prevention system which operates at the…
CISPA Passes in the House
The House of Representatives has passed the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, by a vote of 288-127. This happened after several amendments were adopted (most notably one offered by Rep. The House of Representatives has passed the…