by Paul Rosenzweig | Dec 31, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Homeland Security, National Security
And yet I was reminded of it when reflecting on the first year of the Trump presidency because to separately evaluate conventional benchmarks apart from the extreme transgressions of decency is as impossible a task as asking Mrs. Lincoln to assess…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Oct 26, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Homeland Security, National Security
The latest instance of “what-aboutism” is the House Republican decision to open an investigation of the Uranium One transaction—the allegation that Hillary Clinton transferred control of 20% of America’s uranium mining output to a Russian company, in…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 4, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump
Our electoral infrastructure consists of two distinct pieces (or so it seems to me): a broader public context in which elections occur and a narrower system of election management. To date, almost everything we know about Russian electoral…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 11, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Homeland Security, National Security
Key Takeaways Congressional House Republicans have introduced a proposal to make NIST responsible for cybersecurity audits across the government. The idea is flawed in many respects—most especially because asking NIST to do an audit is asking them to…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 10, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, National Security
President Trump’s trip to Europe was not a complete failure — his speech in Poland struck me as reasonable and Presidential. But his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and their discussion on cybersecurity was not a shining moment.…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 7, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump
I am a bit of an outlier in the cybersecurity community since I think that there are circumstances in which private actors ought to be allowed to more aggressively respond to intrusions on their systems (though I don’t go “full postal” on the issue).…
