Testimony of NPPD Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity Phyllis Schneck. Before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Regarding “Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships to Reduce Cyber Risks to Our Nation’s Critical … [Read more...] about Public-Private Cybersecurity Cooperation
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Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships to Reduce Cyber Risks to our Nation’s Critical Infrastructure
Testimony Before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs March 26, 2014 Introduction Good morning Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Coburn, and distinguished Members of the Committee. I am pleased to appear … [Read more...] about Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships to Reduce Cyber Risks to our Nation’s Critical Infrastructure
The Drone Mystique and Turkey
The recent positioning of US unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, at bases created in the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant and Afghanistan is a geopolitical event that demands greater consideration. That it does not receive more … [Read more...] about The Drone Mystique and Turkey
Why Da‘wah Before Jihad? (Da‘wah Qablal-Jihad)
David Bukay shows that the Da'wah is as fundamental as Jihad to conquering Western societies. Through exploiting the West's openness and its weaknesses, the Da'wah aims to Islamize and achieve demographic victories. Practitioners of the Da'wah … [Read more...] about Why Da‘wah Before Jihad? (Da‘wah Qablal-Jihad)
Quantum Cryptography: Has the White House Heard of It?
At long last there's good news on the cybersecurity front. As cyber attack has continued to mount exponentially over the past five years, government has been glacially slow at even organizing itself to combat it, or to initiate or adopt proper … [Read more...] about Quantum Cryptography: Has the White House Heard of It?
Could “Rabbit Fever” Become a Biological Weapon?
The Obama administration held a meeting today in Washington with the representatives of more than two dozen countries on how to confront "a perfect storm of converging threats from infectious disease epidemics.” For once, the current administration … [Read more...] about Could “Rabbit Fever” Become a Biological Weapon?
A Test We Mustn’t Fail*
The United States is going through one of those periodic crises, testing a complex and often sclerotic constitutional system. An increasingly diminishing presidency has tried to “transform” the society, and particularly its economy, with draconian … [Read more...] about A Test We Mustn’t Fail*
Cybersecurity: America’s Achilles’ Heel
The Cybersecurity Framework, which was announced on February 12, 2014, by President Obama, has very little new to offer to the private sector. It’s only a guide to how everyone should be conceptualizing and communicating about cybersecurity … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity: America’s Achilles’ Heel
Connect the Dots . . . Please!
Recent press accounts illustrate the mainstream media’s growing awareness of threats to the electric power grid and the need to counter them. These threats extend from physical attacks, to cyber attacks, to natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse … [Read more...] about Connect the Dots . . . Please!
Why is Everything Going Wrong?*
It isn’t. There is an old axiom in the news business--or what is left of it as traditional newspapers die to be replaced, for the moment at least, by amateurism on the internet and its social networks--that good news is not news. So we get a steady … [Read more...] about Why is Everything Going Wrong?*