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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

Cybersecurity should be one of the core parts of business strategies. Strong cybersecurity can help businesses to protect their systems, networks and data from cyberattacks, and to prevent financial loss, reputational damage, and disruption to their operations.

On the occasion of the cybersecurity awareness month, we present some key European Union (EU) cybersecurity laws that

The United States may have pioneered the idea of fighting wars in cyberspace, but it’s our adversaries who are using cyberattacks most effectively. To deter them, the country needs creative new ways to punish nations if they launch the devastating attacks that are within their grasp.Continue Reading Thinking the unthinkable about responding to cyberattacks

Most people who’ve heard of “Bitcoin” know it only as a virtual currency sometimes used by criminals.  But there are entrepreneurs, engineers, venture capitalists, and bankers who are betting big on the untapped economic potential of the “blockchain” – the underlying technology that makes Bitcoin run.  In a sense, Bitcoin is just the first “app”

I hope you will join us on Thursday, May 7 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm for the “Triple Entente Beer Summit” at The Washington Firehouse (1626 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC).  This live recording of the three podcasts – Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Lawfare Podcast, and Rational Security – will be your chance

The House Intelligence Committee has now adopted a manager’s amendment to what it’s now calling the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act.”  Predictably, privacy groups are already inveighing against it.

Cyberspies can’t count on anonymity any more.

The United States (and the private security firm Mandiant) stripped a PLA espionage unit of its cover two years ago with a detailed description of the unit’s individual hackers; that report was followed by federal indictments of members of the unit that described them and their activities is