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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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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…
DHS Cybersecurity Authorities
One of the things that has struck me about the debate concerning cybersecurity legislation is that we don’t have a really good baseline of existing legal authorities for the protection of cyberspace. Slowly, that is changing. Here is one offering –…
Cybersecurity and Civil Liability
One of the issues we discussed regarding the proposed cybersecurity bills in the Senate was the question of a regulatory system to identify best practices and require them for critical infrastructure. I was then, and remain, skeptical of the idea.…
Latest Draft of the White House Cybersecurity Executive Order
Here it is … this version is dated November 21, 2012, so it seems to be the current iteration: White House Draft Executive Order (Dated 11-21-12). Analysis to follow ….. Here it is … this version is dated November 21, 2012, so it seems to be…
Of Gooses and Ganders and Cybersecurity
Readers will recall our earlier discussion of the House Intelligence Committee report that called two Chinese companies, Huawei and ZTE threats to American information security. Well, it hasn’t taken long for a Chinese response — though an…