Congressional Testimony: Paul Rosenzweig on Choosing the Right Cybersecurity Standards
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…
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…