by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 19, 2022 | Artificial intelligence, Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, National Security
Few know it, but the great songwriter Kenny Rogers also had a lot to teach the world about cybersecurity. No. Seriously. His classic song, “The Gambler,” is not just a story about wagering, it can be read as a parable about cybersecurity and, in…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 12, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, National Security
The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Homeland Security looms in early 2023. What should the next Quadrennial Homeland Security Review study? The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America passed in Sept. 2021. The…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Sep 30, 2021 | Cybersecurity, National Security
Monoculture risk is manageable for most systems, but that isn’t the case for government systems. For these systems, monoculture vulnerability is a national security risk. Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. It also abhors a monoculture. That’s because…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 14, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Election Security, Homeland Security, National Security
Bloomberg Government subscribers get the stories like this first. Act now and gain unlimited access to everything you need to know. Learn more. House lawmakers are vying to reshape the Department of Homeland Security — a sprawling agency formed to…
by By David E. Sanger | Jul 13, 2021 | National Security
Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American targets, the most aggressive of the groups suddenly went off-line early Tuesday. The mystery is who made it happen. The…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jul 13, 2021 | National Security
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. (Flickr/Prachatai, https://flic.kr/p/2jAvs2f; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Will Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko—“Europe’s last dictator,” who ordered the…
