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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.
House Committee Jurisdiction and CISPA
Last year, the House Intelligence Committee passed out a bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that eventually was adopted with bipartisan support in the House of Representatives. The bill drew a veto threat from President…
Cybersecurity Readings: Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity
Gary Shiffman and Ravi Gupta have written an interesting new article: “Crowdsourcing cyber security: a property rights view of exclusion and theft on the information commons.” From the abstract:Individuals increasingly rely upon the internet for…
Cyber in the Heart of Darkness
One of the most notable challenges in dealing with cybersecurity is the difficulty of adequately conveying the scope and size of cyberspace. It’s easy to say that there are nearly 2.5 billion internet users in the world (35% of the world’s…
Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Falls Short
In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he had signed an executive order (EO) on cybersecurity. The order uses a standard-setting approach to improve cybersecurity. However, such a model will only impose costs, encourage…
President Obama’s Cyber Executive Order
As Rafaella reported last night, President Obama went “all-in” on cybersecurity last night, marrying a substantive mention of cyber in his State of the Union address (I’m bitter about that — I bet against it, which shows you how valuable my…
Hagel, Kerry, and Brennan Senate Confirmation Hearings: Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom
The confirmation process for three key Administration positions is expected to begin in the next couple weeks, with Senator John Kerry (D–MA) nominated for Secretary of State, former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) nominated for Secretary of Defense, and…
Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World
With some hesitancy at the sense of shameless self-promotion it necessarily entails, I am very pleased to to announce today that my book Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World is now available from…
A National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
As 2013 draws to a close, I was reflecting on some of the things that happened, and some of the things that did not. One that struck me is that we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the “National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.” It’s good that in…
NDAA and Cybersecurity Redux — CORRECTION
As Bobby has already noted the conference report on the NDAA was filed last night. Some readers may recall that I was concerned about section 936 of the Senate version of the bill — a provision that requires Defense contractors to report cyber…
The NDAA and Cybersecurity
A colleague just pointed this out to me today. Buried in the Senate-approved NDAA is Section 936, which would require the Pentagon to “establish a process” for defense contractors that have classified information on their networks to report any…