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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…