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OSCE Agrees to New Confidence Building Measures. Pop the Champagne?
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Three weeks ago, the members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation...
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Journey to the East: Why Facebook Won’t Make it in China
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last month, Chinese propaganda officials rushed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s defense, ordering media...
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Social Media and the Gig Economy May Hold Solutions to the European Migrant...
Nick Ashton-Hart was the senior permanent representative of the Internet sector to the United Nations and its agencies and member states in Geneva until 2015 and remains active in international...
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Blaming Russia For the DNC Hack Is Almost Too Easy
Dr. Sandro Gaycken is the Director of the Digital Society Institute, a former hacktivist, and a strategic advisor to NATO, some German DAX-companies and the German government on cyber matters. The hack...
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The Internet’s Inflection Point
Michael Chertoff is the former secretary of homeland security and current chairman of the Chertoff Group. History has inflection points; points where the deliberate policy choices of individuals,...
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The UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Adding Much Needed Transparency
James Pooler is a political science student at New York University and an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Digital and Cyberspace Policy program. Following David Cameron’s resignation...
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Brazil Must Rebalance Its Approach to Cybersecurity
Robert Muggah is the research director of the Igarapé Institute, an independent think tank based in Rio de Janeiro. Nathan B. Thompson is a researcher at Igarapé. When Brazil attends the Group of 20...
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We Are Protecting the Internet, Not Giving It to the United Nations
Byron Holland is president and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the .ca domain. Like many foreigners, I follow U.S. politics closely. What happens in Washington, DC on...
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Shouting at Americans: A Peek Into French Signals Intelligence
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Something remarkable happened a few months ago. Bernard Barbier, the former...
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Lessons From the Cold War to Combat Modern Russian Disinformation Campaigns
Robert Caruso served in the Department of Defense and Department of State in the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama. You can find him on Twitter @robertcaruso. Since Russia’s 2008...
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The Problem With the United Nations Setting Tech Standards for Your Internet...
Dominique Lazanski lives and works in London. She has over 16 years of experience working in the Internet industry. She is writing in a personal capacity and her views do not necessarily reflect those...
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Hacking Back Is Ethical in the Cyber Frontier
Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is an associate philosophy professor. When cyberattacks...
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Risky Business: When Governments Do Not Attribute State-Sponsored Cyberattacks
Kristen Eichensehr is an Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Law, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a term member of the Council on Foreign...
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Campaign 2016: Donald Trump on Cybersecurity
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program and David O’Connor is an intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. After giving widely ridiculed remarks about...
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A Web of Trust: Toward a Safe, Secure, Reliable and Open Internet
This is an excerpt of Look Who’s Watching: Surveillance, Treachery and Trust Online by Fen Osler Hampson and Eric Jardine published by CIGI Press. You can find it now on Amazon. There is widespread...
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For the People and By the People: Shaping Norms for the Internet of Things
Susan Ariel Aaronson is a research professor and cross-disciplinary fellow at George Washington University. Ethan Wham is social media consultant and a member of the greater Washington, DC chapter of...
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When Naming Cyber Threat Actors Does More Harm Than Good
Max Smeets is a D.Phil candidate and cyber research affiliate at the University of Oxford. His work analyzes the proliferation of cyber weapons. Cybersecurity firms, despite their increasing prominence...
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Africans Want Cross-Border Data Access Reform, But They Might Get Left Out
Mailyn Fidler is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. You can follow her @mailynfidler. At the first session of the 2016 Forum on Internet Freedom in...
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We Should Not Fear a Fragmented Internet
Hugo Zylberberg is a fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. You can follow him @hugozylb. Several high-profile reports have recently lamented the fragmentation...
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How Much Does a Cyber Weapon Cost? Nobody Knows
Max Smeets is a D.Phil candidate and research affiliate of the Cyber Studies Programme at the University of Oxford. His work analyzes the proliferation of cyber weapons. Can a non-state actor take down...
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