by Paul Rosenzweig | Apr 24, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump
Politics may also be blocking meaningful executive action on election cybersecurity. Paul Rosenzweig, a senior cybersecurity fellow at the libertarian R Street Institute, suggested that Trump’s unwillingness to confront the Kremlin over its actions…
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 | 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…
