by Paul Rosenzweig | Feb 13, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 22, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Election Security, Homeland Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 16, 2018 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 6, 2018 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 1, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
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…