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Building and Keeping the Cyber Force: The Human Infrastructure of National Security

We talk about cyber infrastructure as networks, sensors, and platforms, and we fund it accordingly. The workforce that ...
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The Pendulum Swing of AI Adoption

We are living in an unprecedented era of technological disruption. AI is reshaping how we live, work, and think faster than ...
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Iran and the Expanding Cyber Front: What Government Leaders Need to Know

When conflict escalates in the Middle East, the battlefield is never limited to geography. It extends into energy grids, government networks, transportation systems, and financial infrastructure. The ...
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When Trust Has No Security, AI Risks Everything

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded into the operational core of healthcare, finance, critical infrastructure, government, and enterprise decision-making. Organizations are deploying ...
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Entangled Migrations PQC, QKD, and US–PRC Risk Postures for Critical Infrastructure

The ICIT Quantum-Resilient Convergence paper established that Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration and AI/Low Earth Orbit (LEO) infrastructure modernization are a single coupled program, and that ...
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Materiality Matters

The plain truth is that – many CISOs don't understand materiality. In addition, many organizations have chosen to use a risk lens that downplays the actual risk of an incident, as well as the future ...
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The Drone Gap: Why the U.S. Industrial Base Continues to Fall Behind in a World at War by Drone

In an earlier article last summer, "America's blind spot as drone production surges globally," I argued that U.S. counter-drone policy was falling well behind the pace of technological and ...
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Making a Case for Cybersecurity

In this ICIT Fellow Perspective, Darren Death delves into the complexities of formulating and administering effective cybersecurity programs. He focuses on the integration of these programs with ...
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Protecting Critical Infrastructure Through Prosecution: Appraising Deterrence Under Federal Criminal Law

The September 2024 dismantling of the Flax Typhoon botnet — a campaign involving 200,000 devices targeting U.S. and global critical infrastructure — demonstrates how the government can protect ...
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Modernization Requires Leadership: Leading the way to Cloud Security, Zero Trust, & Threat Intel

In Modernization Requires Leadership: Leading the way to Cloud Security, Zero Trust, and Threat Intelligence, DLT and ICIT experts detail the role of leadership in ensuring the success of three ...
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Quantum-Resilient Convergence: The Shared Defense of AI, Space, and Critical Infrastructure

The infrastructure of the 2030s is being built now. Artificial intelligence systems are scaling across government and critical infrastructure. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are expanding ...