A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Maurice Turner Weighs in on Hack of U.S. Prosecutors on CBSN
The Justice Department found that some of the nation's most prominent federal prosecutors had their email accounts hacked last year during the Solarwinds cyber espionage campaign. Maurice Turner, a cybersecurity fellow with The Alliance For Securing [...]
Maurice Turner Discusses the White House’s New Task Force to Curb Ransomware on CBS News
Federal officials are looking to crack down on ransomware attacks that are attacking critical U.S. infrastructure by implementing a new multi-agency task force. The announcement comes just days after the notorious Russian-linked ransomware group, RE [...]
David Levine in NY Daily News: Don’t Use the Board of Elections’ Screwup to Undermine Confidence in Democracy
I don’t need to tell New Yorkers that the New York City Board of Elections badly bungled the release of preliminary ranked-choice results from the city’s recent mayoral primary. Between this serious mistake and many previous well-documented mishaps, [...]
Bret Schafer in Foreign Policy: China Fires Back at Biden with Conspiracy Theories About Maryland Lab
Since Washington launched the Wuhan lab leak investigation, Beijing has been pushing bizarre narratives. When the Biden administration announced it would reexamine the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab, Beijing’s response was deny an [...]
Maurice Turner Discusses the United States’ Ransomware Deterrent Strategy on CBS News
Our current ransomware deterrent strategy is "simply not working," Cybersecurity Fellow Maurice Turner said. President Biden says he will "deliver" a message to Russian President Putin over the massive global ransomware attack, believed to have or [...]
David Levine Discusses Election Security Amid Threats to Ballot Access with GovExec
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court overruled a previous federal appeals court decision that held that Arizona voting laws disproportionately affected voters of color, a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The Thursday ruling is another blow to v [...]
ASD and OSET Release Enhancing the Security of Electronic Pollbooks Is Essential for Election Integrity
Much attention has been paid to voting system vulnerabilities (real and imagined), but we continue to severely underestimate the potential for malicious actors to manipulate and create chaos with one very common tool for conducting elections: electr [...]
Nad’a Kovalčíková Sets the Stage for NATO 2030 at Brussels Forum
Program Manager and Fellow Nad'a Kovalčíková sets the stage for NATO 2030 at Brussels Forum in a teaser video. [...]
Laura Thornton in The Washington Post: How Authoritarians Use Gender As A Weapon
Last month, Hungary and Poland successfully got the term “gender equality” removed from a European Union social summit in Portugal. In March, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of the Istanbul Convention, a legally binding Council of E [...]
ASD Releases New Report on Retaining Election Officials
The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history when it came to protecting physical and cyber infrastructure, however, similar measures weren’t in place to protect the people who administered the elections. Election officials and their familie [...]
Maurice Turner Discusses Election Cybersecurity with USC
Security concerns about Arizona’s election audit. What keeps policymakers up at night about the Colonial Pipeline. Nevada’s latest take on election security. Listen to Adam Clayton Powell, III, Executive Director of the Election Cybersecurity Initi [...]
Bryce Barros and Jennifer Gurev in Foreign Policy: State Legislation Might Backfire on U.S.-China Relations
Beijing doesn’t understand local governments are independent of Washington, China Analyst Bryce Barros and Junior Fellow Jennifer Gurev write in Foreign Policy. On July 1, Florida State House Bill (HB) 7017 “Foreign Influence” will become law. The [...]