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A Holistic Approach to the Encryption Debate
September 1, 2016 — Growing dependence on cyberspace for commerce, communication, governance, and military operations has left society vulnerable to a multitude of security threats. Mitigating the inherent risks associated with the use of cyberspace poses a series of thorny public policy problems. In this volume, academics, practitioners from both private sector and... MORE

Critical Infrastructure Exercise 16.2--A Transformative Cybersecurity Learning Experience
August 8, 2016 — With an increased awareness that the critical infrastructure which keeps our country running is surprisingly vulnerable—not just to physical attacks, but also to cyberattacks that can be initiated from anywhere in the world—the state of Indiana executed CRIT-EX 16.2 on the 18th and 19th of May, 2016, at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center. This... MORE

The Path Dependent Power of a Single Word: The Swedish Case of Bureaucratic Obstruction in the European Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive’s Implementation
August 6, 2016 — The translation of the word ‘document’ in the 2003/98/EC directive on the re-use of public sector information into Swedish had several alternative words but used the word ‘handling’. The administrative law precedence for the word ‘handling’ has embedded several assumptions of the actual document, and based on a precedence that started in the 1760s... MORE

Just out "It's Too Complicated: Implications of IP-Based Communications..."
July 8, 2016 — For more than forty years, electronic surveillance law in the United States developed under constitutional and statutory regimes that, given the technology of the day, distinguished content from metadata with ease and certainty. The stability of these legal regimes and the distinctions they facilitated was enabled by the relative stability of these... MORE

We Took West Point Cadets to (Cyber) War
June 21, 2016 — "Several months ago, we — members of the Army Cyber Institute and Defense Innovation Unit Experimental — built and wrote about a cyber-electromagnetic tool lovingly referred to as the “cyber capability rifle” (CCR) for about $150 and ten man-hours. Shortly after its debut at Cyber Talks, we tested it against a network-connected home automation... MORE

West Point Cadets Are Shooting Down Drones With Cyber Rifles
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The Value of a One Semester Exposure to the Institutional Review Board Process
June 1, 2016 — Genuinely considering the user experience is an important element of developing usable and acceptable hardware and software. When working outside of a simple classroom project, however, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval must be obtained before conducting user studies with human subjects. Obtaining IRB approval is often viewed as a... MORE

A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012
June 1, 2016 — A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986-2012 is the first book of its kind — a comprehensive, accessible history of cyber conflict. A Fierce Domain reaches back to look at the major “wake-up calls,” the major conflicts that have forced the realization that cyberspace is a harsh place where nations and others contest for superiority. The book... MORE

You Can’t Always Get What You Want: How Will Law Enforcement Get What it Needs in a Post-CALEA, Cybersecurity-Centric Encryption Era?
May 31, 2016 — In recent years, many technology companies have enabled encryption by default in their products, thereby burdening law enforcement efforts to intercept communications content or access data stored on smartphones by traditional means. Even before such encryption technologies were widely used, however, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”)... MORE

Bring on the Cyber Attacks — The Increased Predatory Power of the Reluctant Red Queen in a Nation-State Cyber Conflict
May 30, 2016 — The militarized and contested Internet with a multitude of state-sponsored cyberattacks can generate an evolutionary process when the targeted nation is strengthened by the abundance of information it receives from the attacks. When the targeted nation restrains from retaliating against the attacking adversarial state its systems are perfected,... MORE