by Paul Rosenzweig | Aug 19, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Election Security
According to a recent report, “Defending Elections: Federal Funding Needs for State Election Security,” many election security projects at the state level are either unfunded or underfunded. The report calls on the federal government to provide more…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Aug 13, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
Paul Rosenzweig, formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security and founder of a homeland security consulting company, observes that cybersecurity resembles obscenity — we know it when we see it even if we can’t…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Aug 5, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Of late, I have become increasingly interested in this apparent gap. The problem is that the lack of good metrics is (or seems likely to be) debilitating. My hypothesis is that, when governments, commercial actors and private citizens think about new…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 21, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The report, which was also sponsored by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, R Street Institute and University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security, examined six states, finding that all had taken steps to shore up…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 17, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The trade-offs highlighted in the report are likely common among most of the 50 states, Lawrence Norden, director of the Election Reform Program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, told me. The Brennan Center was another sponsor of…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 8, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, National Security
Information gleaned from at-home ancestry DNA kits can help foes better tailor their weapons, the Navy’s top officer said last week.While DNA information can be misused and should be treated with personal information, it’s unlikely that enemies would…
