Today, the United States faces a cyber threat landscape that is shifting faster than relevant policy frameworks intended to address it. The United States remains structurally and doctrinally misaligned for strategic competition in cyberspace, complicating pre-crisis decision-making and coordination across military, intelligence, and law enforcement…
The McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical infrastructure Security released a statement from Director Frank Cilluffo in response to Congress renewing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Act of 2015 and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program in its short-term funding bill to end a…
WASHINGTON – As the world turns its attention to the U.S.-China relationship this week, the McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security at Auburn University today released a paper raising the alarm on the sophisticated cyber threat posed by the People’s Republic of China…
The Typhoons represent a combination of disruption, operational preparation of the battlefield, espionage and criminal behavior.
A key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to U.S. critical systems expired as the government shut down Wednesday, partially blinding Washington to attacks from adversaries that are only growing more sophisticated and persistent. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has been…
On Tuesday, unless Congress acts, America will lose critical counter-drone protections, making it easier for adversaries and criminals to exploit our skies. Absent congressional action, the federal government’s ability to mitigate drone threats will be called into legal question, as key authorities lapse. Should this…
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 10: It’s past time for a comprehensive plan to protect vital US systems from nation-state cyberattacks, and increasingly, that responsibility is falling to asset owners across a vast swath of organizations, who likely never bargained for an international cyber conflict playing out…
Cyberspace is the new battlespace, and America’s cyber defenders are staring down a scary and quickly approaching deadline. This is not a time for uncertainty or political posturing. Our greatest adversary, China, is prepositioning itself inside the digital networks of our nation’s most critical infrastructure,…
The McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security at Auburn University today hosted a first-of-its-kind summit aimed at protecting Alabama’s water systems from the increasing threat of cyberattacks. Like so many systems critical to the way our state and nation run, water systems often…
The McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security at Auburn University announced the addition of two distinguished national security leaders to its advisory board: the sixth Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and current President of Lighthouse Strategies Kirstjen Nielsen and Auburn alumnus James Hoskins, a…
