A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Research Assistant Etienne Soula discusses the PRC and Hong Kong governments’ use of high tech surveillance tools to counter the outbreak of pro-democracy protests in the increasingly-besieged city-state. [...]
ASD Head of Research and Policy Jessica Brandt gives Axios readers a rundown on the latest Facebook, Twitter, and Google takedowns of accounts associated with coordinated inauthentic behavior on the part of the PRC government. [...]
ASD China Analyst Matt Schrader joined ABC’s David Sparks to discuss Twitter and Facebook’s takedown of a Chinese state-backed disinformation campaign targeting the Hong Kong protest movement. [...]
Using the analogy of a front and a back door, ASD's Josh Kirschenbaum explains that while the U.S. Government has been assiduous in anti-money-laundering enforcement against banks, it has been lax in its AML enforcement against electronic payments c [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss Russian economic coercion and malign financial influence. [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger was interviewed by the Bertelsmann on the question "How to fix democracy?" Rosenberger outlined the steps the United States and its allies in Europe and around the world have to take to safeguard our democracies for fu [...]
ASD’s Director of External Affairs Rachael Wilson discussed election security in an interview on C-SPAN, arguing that partisanship has hindered the adoption of effective election-security legislation. She also argued that there needs to be better co [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined Lawfare’s The Report podcast to discuss the Russian government’s hack-and-leak operation in the lead-up to the 2016 election. She describes how Russian intelligence timed the release of stolen emails and data to [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger analyzed the recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian cyber operations as part of a larger piece for Just Security. She noted that the Russian attacks exploited the gaps between government agencies to tar [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger analyzes the recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian cyber operations for Just Security. Rosenberger notes that the Russian attacks exploited the gaps between government agencies to target states and und [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger joined Lawfare's The Report podcast to discuss the Russian government's hack-and-leak operation in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Rosenberger describes how Russian intelligence timed the release of stolen emails and [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technology Lindsay Gorman wrote in Fifth Domain on the challenge of securing critical data from foreign adversaries in the face of rapid advances in computing technology and cyberespionage. [...]
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce highlights ASD's report on federal funding for election security on the state level, published together with the Brennan Center, Pitt Cyber, and the R Street Institute. [...]
ASD Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt was interviewed by Public Radio International, where she spoke about the two-pronged nature of Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. elections: disinformation and cyberattacks. Brandt also praised the [...]
ASD China Analyst Matt Schrader and War on the Rocks' Peter Mattis discuss how the U.S. Government must avoid racial profiling and alienating the Chinese diaspora in its moves to counter PRC interference. [...]
ASD's Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt was interviewed in the Washington Post upon the news of the appointment of Shelby Pierson as overseer of intelligence related to election security. Brandt said: “It’s one of the most encouraging signs [...]
ASD Head of External Relations Rachael Dean Wilson was interviewed on WVTM Birmingham to discuss ASD's new report on further opportunities for federal funding in state-level election security, published together with the Brennan Center for Justice, [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger participated in a panel discussion, "New Threats from Old Adversaries: Democracy, Misinformation, and Cyber Campaigns," at the Aspen Security Forum on July 19, 2019. Joining Rosenberger to discuss disinformation, cyber [...]
ASD Non-resident Fellow Clint Watts discusses Russian cyber interference and the Internet Research Agency on the first episode of Lawfare's new Active Measures podcast. [...]
ASD Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt writes about the unfolding scandal of Russian financing of Italy's major far-right party La Lega in Axios. [...]
ASD Senior Fellow for Malign Finance Joshua Kirschenbaum joined Jesper Berg, Director General of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, and Evika Silina, Parlimentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Latvia on a panel at the German Marshall F [...]
ASD Co-director Laura Rosenberger joins former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves in writing an op-ed in Euronews on the need to safeguard Europe's democracies from authoritarian interference. Rosenberger and ASD recently unveiled our Europea [...]
ASD Deputy Director David Salvo discusses what Ohioans can do to protect their democracy from authoritarian interference in an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. [...]
ASD Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph argues in The Hill that the U.S. government that beneficial ownership legislation banning anonymous shell companies would help defend America from foreign interference. [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joins former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Gregg Garrett, head of U.S. and International Cybersecurity at BDO, to discuss the coming problems and potential of big data, a [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman gave her opinion on the proliferation of manipulated media on NPR's All Things Considered. [...]
ASD Head of Research Jessica Brandt contributed her thoughts on improving election security to a piece on the subject for PBS Newshour, saying: “Attempts to manipulate the information space undermine Americans’ ability to have a constructive debate [...]
ASD Co-director Laura Rosenberger discusses foreign election interference with other panelists at Globesec's Bratislava Forum 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Joining Rosenberger on the panel are MEP for the Netherlands Marietje Schaake, the McCain Ins [...]
ASD Head of Research Jessica Brandt discusses the 2016 Florida voter registration hacks and lays out the chain of events that led to this failure of election security. [...]
ASD Senior Fellow Joshua Kirschenbaum and GWU's Jennifer DeNardis discuss the recent Financial Action Task Force evaluation of Russia with the Program on Compliance and Enforcement at the NYU School of Law. "Russia in recent years has been the most [...]
ASD China Analyst Matt Schrader discusses Huawei's massive public relations campaign outside China, and draws parallels between its tactics and those used by the Chinese Communist Party itself at home and abroad. [...]
Tesa Arcilla of Euronews' Raw Politics sits down with ASD Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina and other European politicians and experts on Raw Politics for their insights and analysis on the latest in the political arena. On Wednesday the panel discusse [...]
ASD Fellow for Emerging Technology Lindsay Gorman discusses Europe's place in the new U.S.-China "Tech Cold War," and the importance to the U.S. of strengthening ties to our transatlantic partners. "A decade ago, a European scholar asked a Chinese [...]
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy about ongoing threats to the U.S. electoral system from foreign operatives. [...]
ASD Co-director Laura Rosenberger was featured on the Future State podcast to discuss ASD’s work on the authoritarian toolkit for malign interference and what lies ahead as important elections in both Europe and North America take place in 2019 and [...]
ASD Non-resident Fellow Heidi Tworek uses the example of prewar Germany to discuss the problem of government over-regulation of media in The Atlantic. [...]
ASD Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina was interviewed on Euronews' Raw Politics program on the European elections and what's next in Austria after the collapse of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz' government. [...]
ASD Managing Director David Salvo discusses the EU's new policy meant to deter cyberattacks and other cybercrime in a piece for Axios. [...]
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum and the Financial Integrity Network's David Murray highlight the growing risk that opaque foreign investments pose to U.S. national security. "The U.S. has always welcomed foreign capital – much to our economic bene [...]
Below is a translation of ASD Program Manager Nad'a Kovalcikova's interview in German with Bild. Kovalcikova discussed Russian disinformation in Europe ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections. The title of the interview is "So mischt Putin b [...]