Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform national and global security, according to Artificial Intelligence: What Every Policymaker Needs to Know, a new report from the Center for a New American Security. “AI is enabling the creation of special-purpose machines to replace human cognitive labor for specific tasks,” authors Paul Scharre and Michael Horowitz wrote. “AI has […]
Cybersecurity
DHS Cyber Strategy Faces Staffing, Vulnerability Tests
By 2020, more than 20 billion devices will be connected through a network of ping-ponging texts, bank transfers, and personal data. At the same time the world grows more connected, nefarious nation-states and transnational criminal organizations only have more targets for crippling cyber attacks. Cut the cord, and the institutions the world relies on could […]
National Security Forum Explores Tactics & Terror
WASHINGTON—Cyber and border security, immigration, refugees, military readiness, and capabilities headlined the second annual Capitol Hill National Security Forum on June 21. Hosted by Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), and Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), lawmakers huddled with other government officials and leaders to shed light […]
China, North Korea are Largest Cybersecurity Threat
WASHINGTON—China and North Korea pose the greatest cyber threats to the United States, said panelists during a Brookings Institution conference June 14. The conference was part of the institution’s Asia Transnational Threats forum. William Carter, deputy director of the Technology Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said China’s goal is to […]
Massive Dark Net has Both Shady and Bright Spots
As Mark Zuckerberg faced Congress about the good and bad aspects of Facebook’s decidedly open-web presence, cybersecurity expert Gabriel Weimann revealed that there are good, as well as bad, aspects of the “dark net” in an interview with the Woodrow Wilson Center. Weimann, a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center’s Middle East and Science […]